There is too much water , too much
distance for anyone else to do it
relevantly at pace at speed and at
scale , everybody's role
is crucial . But mobility is the joint
force maneuver for global operations .
We move mobility guardian to the
Pacific this year because it's hard .
We want it to be intentionally
difficult on ourselves . This is a much
different a or than where we've been
for the past 20 plus years . The
geographical space that we occupy is
very small . We have to be light and we
have to be lean .
Top three things I wanted the team to
accomplish was exploding into theater ,
establishing the hubs and spokes and
operating at tempo and with confidence
for practicing the ability to leave our
home stations , go deploy into a
theater and set up and begin generating
missions to move cargo and move the
transportation system as rapidly as
possible . This theater is very vast .
We're working with an area that's 4000
miles distance from one location to the
next . In a large scale humanitarian
operation or combat operations . There
will be air lift , there will be air
refueling will be gams , there will be
a medical evacuation and it's all
controlled by command and control . So ,
if we're not exercising that way , in
practice , we're not going to learn the
hard lessons to integrate all five of
those capabilities in a large scale
operation . If there were to be
challenges with bringing the coalition
forces out , it would be that we
probably don't recognize the strengths
that our partners have . Right . So
oftentimes when we're trying to employ
or deploy a coalition partner , we look
at it as a holistic package , right ,
that they have to come out here and be
autonomous and support themselves .
Something that's different about
mobility guarding specifically here on
Anderson is that there is one security
forces team , there's one , a team in ,
there's one loading team , an aerial
port team integrated , the air planners
are integrated , it's not one country
operating and working for themselves
independently . Everybody is coming
together . So I think we've identified
early on that . We don't have to look
at the individual countries as being
self supporting that we can co locate ,
integrate completely and we can
capitalize and create synergistic
effects in this theater . Throughout
the Pacific , we get to see what other
countries are doing . We're not perfect
and they're not perfect . So coming
here in this exercise , it really gives
us a grasp on what other people are
doing that's working and we can find
better solutions . I'm excited to be
here to work with our friends and , and
partners from across the globe so that
when we do have to work together in an
operational setting , we have those
networks and friendships um already
formed . Our allies are our best
friends . At the end of the day , I
can't wait to work with our United
States air Force friends um closer in
the future , whether it's the
Afghanistan retrograde , the
Afghanistan evac , the earthquake in
Turkey support to Ukraine or the Neo in
Africa , combine that with what we just
did for mobility guardian . And there
is no doubt in my mind , we are ready .