Air Force Journal of Logistics articles from September 2008

Air Force Journal of Logistics archives from September 2008

Logistics challenges: air mobility command: improving aircraft maintenance team recovery processes future air bases: power patches or military communities.(Special Feature)(Cover story)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... The Air Force budget is comprised of four main areas, all in desperate need of additional funding: personnel (force structure), readiness, infrastructure (sustainability), and procurement (modernization). Personnel costs (pay and benefits) have...

Air mobility command: improving Aircraft maintenance recovery team processes.(Special Feature)
September 22, 2008... Introduction The United States' (US) civilian and military leaders well recognize the need for speed in prosecuting military operations. The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review places particular "emphasis on the ability to surge quickly to...

Future Air Bases: power patches or military communities? A revolutionary approach is needed by the Air Force to reengineer not only its business processes but also its current and future basing methods.(Special Feature)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction Reality struck hard on 24 September 2007 when Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne publicly announced that the 40,000 personnel reduction taken by the Air Force to pay for new airplanes was not...

Contemporary issues.
September 22, 2008... Contemporary Issues in this edition presents three articles: "Capturing Risk in Solution Prioritization," "Defense Budgeting Challenges: Uncertainty and Unpredictability" and "Generating Opportunity from Uncertainty." In "Capturing Risk in...

Capturing risk in solution prioritization.(contemporary issues)(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction The intent of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force-directed Comprehensive Assessment of Nuclear Sustainment (CANS) was to identify and provide solutions for any systemic problems within the nuclear sustainment enterprise....

Defense budgeting challenges: uncertainty and unpredictability.(contemporary issues)(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction Of all enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes... known instruments for...

Generating opportunity from uncertainty.(contemporary issues)(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction Uncertainty both pervades the current international security environment and obstructs our view of how this environment will evolve. --David C. Gompert (1) While the world displays growing strategic uncertainty, a...

Perceived transfer of basic combat skills training in the US Air Force.(INSIDE LOGISTICS: EXPLORING THE HEART OF LOGISTICS)(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction In early 2003, during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, many airmen, including those in certain support career fields, were deployed to hostile environments such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Deployments of this nature...

Air Force logistics readiness officers: how to be successful in a joint environment.(Candid Voices)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From July 2007 to June 2008, I had the privilege of attending the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College. For nearly a year, I studied the Marines' (and the other Services represented in my conference...

Bass boats and a man from green bay.(Candid Voices)(work overtime)
September 22, 2008... Introduction If you happen to drive onto Tinker Air Force Base on a summer Saturday morning, you will notice a strange phenomenon. On the south side of the flag pole, taking up two parking spots, are a large number of F150s, F250s, Dodge...