 All right chiefs our next briefer I saw this brief at the chief leadership academy about a month ago This is probably one of the most informative briefs you're going to get lots of information that you probably didn't know Our next briefer is the senior enlisted advisor to the assistant secretary of the air force for manpower and reserve affairs He is a career enlisted aviator with 2,800 fly out flight hours flying the mc 130h combat talent to as a load master and the mc 130p as a combat shadow radio operator prior To his current assignment He was the command chief for the ninth air expeditionary and space air and space Expeditionary task force in Kabul Afghanistan Chiefs, please rise and give a warm welcome to chief master sergeant dustin hall Thanks anybody hear me all right Can you hear me in the back Hey, how many uh How many got kids and you're familiar with the current version of the of america's funniest videos? With like alfonsa robert carlton you guys don't know i'm talking about So I feel like the cameras are rolling uh as they put me behind The great todd simmons and jay france and then in front of the phenomenally smart talented dr. Mary Bartlett She's gonna she's gonna if you haven't heard her speak yet. You're gonna get a lot from her. So, um I appreciate you guys being here even if it's not voluntary I still appreciate you being here and it's pretty awesome to watch 400 chiefs get this This is what right looks like So many of us chiefs that you've seen come through this week. We went through Different iterations right mine was happening to be an afsock. There's other folks We used to have madcom command chief or madcom chief orientation I think this is what it should look like You guys all get to hear from senior leaders at the same time you get to hear What chief bassist thinking general browns thinking the undersecretaries thinking at the same time you get to hear the same information at the same time And then you'll have your breakouts today or tomorrow, whatever that looks like and then the match comes We'll put their different spins on it. So this is what this is what looks like what looks like right to me So Congrats on your promotion Congrats on being here. Hopefully we can get out of town without any tornadoes Hey show show of hands on december 9th Give or take a few days when these when these promotions were released. How many of you? And be honest, right? How many of you thought man, I'm ready to be a chief today Raise your hands. I did raise your hands All right Nobody's being honest. That's okay Now how many of you feel like After monday after tuesday wednesday and some of today that like you know, you're not ready to be a chief today I've talked to a lot of you throughout the week And one of the things that we've talked about is man, uh, dustin call me dustin. That's fine. We're all chiefs. You've heard that before We are behind You probably got that from kp. You got that from jeremiah ross. You got that from todd simmonds We are you got that from sim staff. We are behind and this group in particular is behind Where we need to be strategically even operationally As we lead our formation. So so part of what i'm trying to do From the staff mr position and that's the secretary of the air force for, uh Manpower reserve affairs as you've heard my bio. I flew c 130's and Spent some time in kibble. So now i'm doing personnel stuff But but part of this is to educate the force. So this is going to be informational And developmental, right? So this these are things that opportunities are out there that we that i had no No idea they're out there when i was in your seat. Many of us chiefs had no idea these opportunities were out there Uh, so that part is small. That's the developmental informational piece that i want you to take away from this that is a small part The larger part is what can you do with this information to help your airmen and families And guardians in some cases is the secretariat now, right? So we've got the got guardians as well That's the large part that i want you to take away as in putting this to your toolbox that that the mpf superintendent or the first sergeant at the amu or the Commander is not the end all be all AFP ccms case comes back and says no and that airman is crushed Whatever it may be, right? They are crushed etp gets denied. They're crushed They get the email saying hey, man, you oh, you know the air force money And they don't know anything about all the things that are in the fine print below that email remission set aside They're just crushed and they go to the chiefs say hey, how do I fight this? How do I make this look right and this is where some of our policies come into play up at staff MR and we'll go into that so That's what we'll do an overview brief. Well, I'll kind of talk at the Look at the structure of the of the pentagon. It's a It's the pentagon. So whatever you've heard about it. It's probably right Okay, but I'll tell you and I tell my teammates this and I tell I tell the rest of mr That every single decision we were trying to make and get through There's an airman and guardian a family member on the other end So we have to keep that in mind and it's very easy. Believe me. I did it for years And then people in that building don't know what the hell they're doing They're taking forever to process x right I did it. I said it I still say it But I tried a lot of fire under the folks so we can get stuff accomplished a little quicker And we'll talk about some current hot topics. So chief Crowder the Half a1 sel talked yesterday for like seemed like nine hours I love dc if he's still here, I don't know And then chief mackerel the afpc command chief. She had a little bit of time And so what what mr does is provide oversight onto all those programs Plus some more So he has some hot topics that obviously i'm nested into and then I have some hot topics for working up With the secretary all right So this is some stuff that that where the assistant secretary gets their authorities obviously it's nested in 10 US code title 10 section 8016 and then we get the half mission directive This is a bunch of blah blah blah. I got it But one tack 24 is the largest half mission directive we have in the in the department And what that does that gives the secretary of the air force the signs all these functions that we're going to go Out in a second and it gives it to to uh to my boss the political appointee For authorities to to mobilize forces to do all these different things that we'll talk about And then you see the assistant secretary's exercise that that's that gaff authority We give direction to air staff and commands and we oversee operations So uh as you'll see all the madge comms and certain centers and dru's they absolutely are nested under Half and then ultimately under saff m r Restraints are just like everybody else's restraints, you know laws do d directives Uh ethical legal moral those types of things Total force human capital portfolio I don't even know if that even describes it, right? I mean this you'll see what we have It's just it's every every single thing we do talk about total force, but uh that has to do with with people Oversight of and purpose purpose timely changes to laws regulations and policy and then our core values Which were revised last year So we talked about the mission directive And that's what that looks like kind of it pulls out I underlined some things that we we walk we walk over or we walk through in the manpower military and civilian personnel policy Equal opportunity. We'll talk about that in a second. Do I have any eo folks in here? So we just we just pulled equal opportunity in the staff m r Family readiness, right? So here's what we're talking about airman guardians and families Every single thing family readiness think fss think naff type stuff inside your installations that falls under m r for oversight base exchanges deca morale welfare so forth and so on and it's also Another big thing here. We'll talk about within the brief is that we have The air force review boards agency Falls under us. So it's about 120 folks over on andrew's that that do decorations boards personnel boards Retention boards all the things that you guys have been familiar with hopefully up to this point So this is what it looks like the assistant secretary of the air force is a four star political appointee right now that Confirmation has not happened yet, right? So there's a handful of dod political appointees that have not been done It's mr. Alex Wagner is who president biden appointed We should have him in the seat within the next couple weeks as the senate rolls through there He has to go to what's called a cloture hearing again. Don't worry about that so much once he gets in the seat He'll be the four star political appointee and then this is his staff Senior military assistant. Oh sick. That's criminal criminal madison special assistant gs 14 which will come from The legislative liaison branch that'll be a gs 14 assigned to mr. Wagner senior listed advisor, which is myself Then a confidential assistant And he also has the arch advisors So he's got a guard and reserve advisor one star that are his advisors and then on on the flip side of this The p-dash so the principal Deputy assistant secretary Is right now it's a three star s e s. That's mr. Federigo how many people have ever heard of mr. Federigo so Mr. Federigo is in a phenomenal american One of the best individuals i've met in my entire life retired chief first chief ever to become an s e s in the building And now he's doing three star s e s and he's been wearing about 17 hats Since this administration took took took charge about it over a year ago. Mr. Manasco was in the seat As the uh as the as the mr He obviously had to leave when the previous administration left And so now mr. Federigo has been wearing all these hats for that long But you primarily know him because his name is always on the front of all the 36 series afis, right? How do I know that because Are airmen and guardians see mr. Federigo in the front of 36 you pick it and they email the man directly And that's fine, and he's a great guy And if you know him, he's like that's fine and he replies kindly he goes Hey, thank you for your note chief hall handled this from here. So then I get it right so that's fine But there's some interesting things man. It's like somebody wanted to wear their We're going to email a three star s e s They want to even they 36 203 they're like hey, sir Um, I don't see it in here Can are we able to wear our squadron colors in our mess dress? like Man anybody have an answer for that Come on Can you wear squadron like a squadron color shirt with your mess dress? On your sleeves, right on your backs. I got all kinds of crazy shirts, right? Yeah, all right What's the afi say? White shirt, right? You know when I replied to him I said hey, uh, I think it was a senior master, and I think I believe I said hey Uh, you guys are chief flex get that right I said hey, um I said hey, sir, you know To be quite honest afi says no But if you want to do it at your installation level go ahead and do it because this is part of accelerate change or lose This is part of breaking through bureaucracy. This is part of creating a better design letting commanders command right And if any one of us Are on installation and we're going to bust somebody down This is goes back to what Todd was saying. I'm going to start yelling at people for stuff like that Then we need to check ourselves. So that was our answer from the secretariat You do you at your installation And if that wing commander 06 07 is okay with it, then you go forth and prosper I need you on my team. So if this is going to keep you on our team, then we're gonna we're going to go ahead And that's fine. I'm not gonna but we're not going to change the regulation All right, so mrb. You see but the uh two star sces is below Uh, they're all two star sces. We'll get to that a little bit mrb The board force management reserve affairs of airman readiness And then we just took on two more that I didn't fit on the slide very well mrq which is equal opportunity so the entirety of the equal opportunity portfolio Across the air force and mrl, which is sces management. That's a whole thing That I don't deal with because I don't have the bandwidth to do it and plus I don't know anything about sces management So mr. Federico handles that along with that sces in there So main thing I want you to take away from this is the oversight piece policies written by half A1 in most cases That comes out of a1p out of policy signed off by the tangential kelly derrick crowder's boss And then certified and an oversight provided by saff mr All those things you see up there and we'll go to it when we get uh Into the different directorates The cool thing this this serve as the dod executive agent support for the national science foundation. Anybody know what that is Man, you guys cnc 130s with skis on them up in new york and they fly the arctic missions Yeah, I can't wait to go in that tdy. I thought I just shared that with you. That's gonna be fun I'll send pictures you guys can see it on social media. All right All right, first things up mrm again I'm not going to read off every single one of these but mrm is led by mr Mark Engelbaum two-star sces and his he has a chief chief master in wendy tea I feel like chief tea knows everybody in the air force. So if you know when I see a bunch of nods over here If you know wendy, she's a phenomenal teammate of mine texts every day And she's passionate about what she does and this is everything that's in well, this is the first page. That's in mrm's portfolio I'll pull I'll go through and pick a couple things that pertain to this crowd Leave policy absence and leave Everything has to do with leave we talked about Uh, we got a care care gear of separation that Derek talked about the couple days ago We got these now we could take 12 weeks of Parental leave and he was spot on right because everybody calls our office say man, where's I'm trying to take leave Ndaa you guys are you guys suck like hold on man Right, we got it. We got a year for the dod to tell us to do it Congress that's congress's piece right that did the ndaa and then we've got a year For dod to tell us to do it and what left and right parameters and if you notice the ndaa says allows up to 12 weeks So the conversation is is 12 weeks to answer Just keep that here I don't know who people record me But that's that's some of the conversations that we talked about and chief crowd was saying hey, we need you to lead through these times Is 12 weeks the answer So the air force is looking at what that's going to look like to operations to mission to families to the whole bit We're not saying it's going to be zero But is 12 weeks and then eight weeks or whatever 10 weeks is that is that the answer Um Uniform for civilian employees employee benefits what another thing that's in here I don't know if it's on this one pay and retirements. So blended retirement system military leave policy JTR MRM So mr. Engelbaum and chief tier my primary conduit when we talk about changes to the JTR And a lot of times when we talk about hey, man BAS or BAH whatever this location sucks or partial per diem I can't I don't need this child hall These are the things we get because partial per diem sucks and so if it goes to the JTR We got to get our sister services on board, right? So this is how I use MRM to to work with sister services to change that deep JTR I'll be honest with you and and and some of the magical command chiefs don't you know They they feel it when I talk about this if you just come to me with this with a service specific problem That has to do with a dodie or JTR type document. That's going to be a challenge You got to rattle rally your joint partners and this is this is more for your knowledge and education I know you guys you know unless you're operating that out environment. So That's how the JTR and dodie's work. It's kind of tough. Here's page two Joint matters 80 sd's active duty service commitment waivers and policy Classifications Rated management, right? So how we're rating how we're managing our rated officers Extremism awards and decoration. We hold an awards court. How many, uh Where's my boy drew at? So, you know, when you change when you change afsc's or you do different things and then you everybody has to have all their annual awards And and some of them are like 17 deep, right? So i'm a one alpha by trade So if I just have like 17 one alpha awards, those got to if they were for creating new ones or changing Whatever, they got to come up here and we hold an awards court. Um, done on done. So that's just that that looks like and and quite frankly There's a balance between take care of our airmen and focusing on what's important to our nation And I'll just kind of leave it at that right and it's both But there's a fine balance and this is where you guys come in at like hey You know, I got it. We're going to put these 17 awards up for a career field that maybe is 400 strong Um, or we can we can take this time and and brand and bandwidth and focus on china, right? It's just some of the conversations All and I've also learned if I say pre decisional a lot of things You can't get in trouble. So everything's pre-decisional Page three enlisted recruiting. So the recruiting agency the entire in the entirety of the recruiting agency and all the recruiters fall under oversight with mr MRM. So when we talk about You know chief simons retired talked about hey, you know, are we recruiting the right people? Are we recruiting the right people in 2022 to build the air force in 2030 show of hands if you think we are okay I would I would argue we're not Right. I would argue that were that were that were not recruiting the right people and here's why because he talked about this propensity to serve And this propensity to serve keeps shrinking. That's not meaning qualified qualified Right. I you may have a bunch of qualified people to serve But they don't want to And so then you look at the influencers would that be mom dad brother sister cousin grandfather grandfather grandmother whatever school teachers underprivileged communities Are we do we have the right influencers in place? Do we have the right marketing in place? So this is we are working very hard to change our brand and we have to change our brand Daytona 500 this week We're going to have air force contingent out there as we have for many years we're going to have a car with an air force sticker on there but People watching that that race We need to expand that For what 2030 looks like So those are the conversations we're having with the recruiting command United States Air Force Academy falls under us the chief sarah sparks is a great friend of mine great teammate We sink all the time talk about athletics talk about the The academy right the preppy academy that hopefully a lot of us have maybe at some point time sent airmen to enlisted airmen to And maybe they go to the academy and they come commission that all falls under us They've got to speed this up. They gave me 30 minutes for this crazy. All right There's page four for mrm We'll get into page five for mrm This is mr. R. So miss christie nolta. She's the two star equivalent s. E. S. It's in charge of mr Retired air force colonel her chief is in transition chief master and jamie wardrobe Just pcs out to be a group superintendent in ellis and the new scl I don't know if she's been notified yet. So i'm not going to say it here But she will be in place in short order and this is what they do and she's been these a little bit I like how she's been these critical Active and then pass through a pass through meaning that's true oversight. Like that's cool, right? All right, go keep going but critical things that we talk about with congress Arpik the reserve forces policy committee I was the worst total force chief that I've ever met in my entire life They got up here and they say hey, here's a whole directorate that just Just talks about reserve and the art community and garden. I'm like oh my god How many how many people suck at total force stuff? It's okay. I was I suck at it man The days the points the man days, but I've gotten very smart. Thanks to thanks to a bunch of incredible teammates See that dual status command on the active side women peace security women in service working group What else monitor? Yeah, they monitor those things yellow ribbon program Innovative readiness training a total force associations, right some some more total force talk there page two National science foundation already talked about Civil air patrol so civil the entirety of the civil air patrol how many people are familiar with cap raise your hand So civil air patrol is actually no kidding an auxiliary force of the air force So when we talk about total force and this is something good for the chiefs We have just changed this recently that when we say total force that includes civil air patrol So they're airplanes. It's like 90 million dollars. We budget to them every year. Their airplanes are all ours We train we train them. We do missions like rescue missions and We train with fighters with them. So that's a huge a huge portfolio inside this Cap USAF headquarters is actually here at Maxwell phenomenal building and it's a it's a pretty cool Pretty cool program. I'll be honest with you and for 12 years old and up if you have interest You know like my my my kid. He's going to be 12 in a few weeks and I'm not sure he understands my urgency to see him succeed when he turns 18 if you know what I mean like I don't know if he I don't know if he gets my plan, but But he will I'm gonna take him to cap and let him see see how it is see if he likes it. So Hopefully pray to god. All right Page three child and youth programs. We talk about cdc. You talk about background checks. We talk about You everything that has to do with child and youth programs after school care All these things that that are airmen and guardians care about EFMP, I don't know if that's on here, but yep EFMP You saw my man Derek crowded take about 30 questions on EFMP the other day Every time I go out and give this brief every time dc or air macaroy go out and give these briefs We take about 30 questions on EFMP So I would ask you guys to say this as leaders and you go back to your unit And I think chief cratter or somebody talked about it. Um, let's talk about the changes we have made Versus how broken it still is right? Versus last year august 2021 EFMP was in all kinds of bad shape and terrible So we implemented the the central sale. We implemented fast track. We implemented these Everything going down to afpc So those things are now starting to take hold Okay, you will still get I guarantee at least through the end of april. You'll still get these one off So come here and say chief I submitted this and this and this and it's been 65 days Okay, and if that's the case I want every single one of you to call me EFMP is that important that we have to get this right So, uh, miss nota and the team in mr MRR is absolutely focused on that I work with with um With mac a lot afpc and hurry fmp team that we have to get this right So if you guys hear this and and it's frustrating and go back to day one where you don't have all the answers Call me and I'll I'll be that answer for you. We'll find it and we'll get it through Okay, we've walked we've hand walked a few individual cases already. All right put stomp on EFMP page three of uh, miss nota's portfolio warrior games air force winning warrior Program is absolutely entirely into our Into MRR also when we talk about resiliency So I think a1z briefed yesterday I had to step out for that But a1z briefs resiliency that is also nested into when we talk about suicide awareness we talk about Um, no wrong door irc. Those are all things that I think were brought up yesterday Those fall absolutely with oversight from MRR or yep MR So the transformation has been absolutely smooth, right for military health system That's a joke for those who are awake, right? It's not it's been tough and we've been doing this for two years now It's been a tough transition and it's not going to get any easier because they still want to cut these this manning But but yet we still have Need our airman guardians and family members still have need But we haven't quite got there. So miss nota absolutely works to try to make what make that work, right? And I'll tell you the undersecretary and secretary are incredibly involved and interested in this because again, we're not that does not look right yet transgender That policy is Squarely out of you know, we kind of just nested with dod and we had our own twist But that comes out of MR and she heads up that pull that portfolio I'm absolutely happy to talk about that. We have we hand walk a lot of those singles Individual cases that are hung up somewhere. We'll walk those through to success So if you guys have any questions on that I absolutely hit me up More MRR Here's MRB. So this is the the board folks what they do over at Andrews. These are all the boards that they they look at First security appeal board The pdbr disability board Of course the air force board of correction military records, which I could tell you right now is about 2,500 deep And so if you've got an airman or that you want to submit they're submitted something to the bcmr You're looking at probably about 7-8 months right now But I will say this and this is my my foot stomp from this and same with remissions board We talk about debt that's owed to the air force And I talked to the first sergeant academy about this a couple months ago is that a lot of this comes back to education So we're correcting a bill doing a bcmr or we're doing a remissions case for for wrongful debt Which could have been avoided at the tactical level Right could have been avoided at the npf and I got it We've got a lot of young a1cs and senior airmen at the desk at npf But we got first sergeants chiefs and midline supervisors in the entire chain So if something doesn't seem right, it's probably not right Ask the hard questions and again, I'll tell you to this call me Chief this doesn't make any sense if it doesn't make any if it doesn't make any sense to this crown It probably doesn't make any sense Don't just have the airmen go through the motions because they're going to be stuck and they're going to be You know the family is going to suffer either financial hardship or ps pcs hardship because it's stuck in this bcmr remission process All right hot topics real quick SRBs are always a hot topic. We've talked about the fiscal environment that Jeremiah briefed on tuesday That we're not getting any more money right behind you guys see a bunch of people go behind that curtain. It's not to get money Okay, so srbs you you might see them come down a little bit How many one in fours do we have in here? Are we still tracking anything any problems with that srb issue? That's issue that's that's resolved. I can put a line through that. Thank you afsc changes Hey, I tell you man many times when we get crossed up with these srbs and even adscs at some points because we we do it to ourselves We change our afscs So quick success story Uh, you know at a at afit when we send an airman to afit we used to change their afsc So if I have an eod member who just reenlisted And they got an srb for that for that zone and they're in their eod afsc And then we sent them to afit because we've asked them to go get this year of education And we've made them this totally different afsc, which I think was a anybody It's like an eight-something right or it was nine It was some afsc that didn't make sense and then and so here's air force saying now you got to give us this money back And you're going to lose the rest of it. Oh what? Right, so now afit's no longer changing than afsc. You just keep your afsc You keep your money to keep your adscs and all that things straight So again, if it doesn't make sense, it probably doesn't make sense Okay, don't just go with status quo. Please Chief pass on some parole and clemency boards soon Not maybe this crowd, but your group superintendents and up will be asked and eligible to sit on parole and clemency boards This is a Eye-opening thing I've sat in the last five or six And it's very very eye-opening and educating and this is the idea and hopefully your match com command chiefs Will will filter this down as I as I ask them to provide chiefs All covet related items Uh, that is particularly the ones that come through congress uh staff mrs the repository for that. So yay for that and then Combat zone tax exclusion hostile fire. We're looking at different sites that maybe don't need that anymore And maybe we could focus it particularly. I'm talking to my my brother ben head and and you say fiafaf about west africa Right the trans to hell. You know, they're they could probably use something that We're no longer in afghanistan. So we maybe we can move some money around there Uh, so we're going to work on that list Awards council. I talked about Active duty enlisted over 20 years. They kind of don't enjoy the same benefits that Everybody else does when it comes to retirement in lieu of court marshal or discharge. So we're looking at that We have to work with Gc and ja do d. This is a policy that that we again did to ourselves years ago And now our airmen are dis disenfranchised when they're when they're presented with the same opportunity that maybe their commission Counter part is and that commission can power gets gets to retire in the grade that the last grade held honorably Whereas right now active duty over enlisted or over 20 enlisted Uh, they they can be busted on a couple stripes and just no retirement. So we're trying to fix that. All right That was quick. I tell you what Jeremy I appreciate you and the team. I do brother, but you know 30 minutes is not enough to get into this portfolio That you can call and email me anytime you want And if anybody has any questions now, you could I'll be up front hanging out But please do not I just challenge you do not Take status quo. This is how we get into these policy problems that we're into now This is how it was always done it this this this regulation hasn't been certified since 1992, but we're just going to keep doing No This crowd needs a challenge seems to challenge that Now is the time to do it If there's you know, here's an example, right? ETPs If ETP is the norm, then why isn't an ETP? Right, I get this from my flying days. We used to wave everything. Well, why why we why we waving it? Why would we just make it the norm? So if you see your wing or your installation or your organization processing a bunch of ETPs up for for hire Say man, what why are we doing this and they always come back approved? That's wasting time right bureaucracy design Well, we can focus on competition. So I appreciate your time. I do and I'll hang out up front if you guys have any questions Thanks