 It's not on is the mic on can you hear me now? All right. There we go. Hey teammates. How are we doing today? All right, we had a lot of strategic conversations, right? And I was like, hey, let's get at it Let me give you the strategic overview of the cheese group. No, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go extremely tactical I'm gonna go extremely tactical We're gonna talk about an emotional topic for all of you guys because when you call the cheese group You have an emotional thing on your mind. You've got some things in fact in your family your dream assignment Whatever and you're calling me hoping me. I don't hoping that I don't crush your dreams I'm gonna try not to we really try to get the yes before I before I do that though I do have one of our assignment managers here with me master master sergeant select Vazquez JV Let me tell you something about JV you guys know we always like to highlight our people and everything like that JV did a little bit of time in the chiefs group about a year or so ago Kind of kind of filled in and then I had an opportunity to poach him off the a1 staff We had an opening and he's sat down in the seat and hit the ground running and is probably one of the most knowledgeable Assignment managers I have after one month in the seat and that's why he's down here with me now You guys will understand when I get through the briefing how we break down assignment managers How that you're going to engage the chiefs group and things like that, but JV is here for you So back in the back of the break room. You've probably already seen him got a little table set up Got his computer there got slickums downloaded You guys are gonna have a couple of questions and things like that throughout the week CJV was is back there for you to kind of explain to you kind of what you should think about Here's what he does not know he does not know yet the assignments that are coming out in 22 Charlie and March He does not know that so let me just get in front of that right now He doesn't know it right, but he will remember names. So be nice to him So again, this really is a pleasure for me to be here It is an honor to serve in the chiefs group when I when I talk give this brief I like to kind of give a little bit of background of myself and where I've go So I've been a chief for about 10 years I had an opportunity to go and be the command chief at Spangalam from there. I went a couple sabers in the room. I hear right, you know, we went from there I went to Aviano's a wyvern pretty cool. Don't hate me. Don't hate me. I had a couple of tough assignments, right? You know, but from Aviano, I went down to IMSC was the command chief at IMSC and and I was really here We go got some IMSC family in the house Do miss them in general Wilcox, but I was ready to retire. I Was ready to retire was thinking of hey, it's about time, you know, what else is next? maybe we retire and SimSaf called me and said hey, well, what do you think about the chiefs group and Internal I always kind of had a secret desire to be at the chiefs group I was like, okay I think we can do that and a big part of that is because I just like to help people I just really like to help people keep that in mind keep that in mind as we go through some things Because I can't always say yes, but we're gonna always try to get you the yes, right? And so I see this as an opportunity to really get after some things in the chiefs group that we need to fix and then an Opportunity explain to all of you who are now new chiefs. What is this chiefs group? What does it mean to you? How is it different and what should you expect when you engage with us? So that's a little bit of my background again and before I get started. I know we got some POL in the house, right? POL right there you go. So now you know where I really came from but We'll get after it and we'll get going next slide, please So this is some of the stuff that I'm gonna talk about right here. I'm not gonna go over the the overview slide next slide This is my team right here, and I couldn't be prouder of a team of eight than I've ever been in This was also another desire of mine to go to the chiefs group lead a small team a small team of professionals But there's one big difference with this team up here, and that's me The difference is I am the only one up there that does not have a personnel background that's done deliberately again my background is logistics fuels and Every one of those are hand-picked Personnelists they are the experts at assignments. They advise me. Here's why it's like that The reason that SimSaf wanted me in there She wanted an experience season chief in the chiefs group so that when you call and you're working with your career Field manager when you're working with the assignment manager and you've got a unique challenge or a unique problem And we need to do something outside of what the book says. That's where I get involved Right. That's where when the Magcom command chief calls me and says hey, Lud. This doesn't make sense Let's take another look at that. Let's see what we can do and how we can get the right So those that team right there anchored by senior master sergeant Franklin. She's my deputy They're the ones that advise me. They're the ones that say hey hey, Lud I know you want to do this, but here's the second and third order of facts If you do that and here's some other things you need to think about, you know in order to do that I'm gonna give you guys some examples and we'll talk about things another thing up here is The bottom three Oliver Holland and Vasquez all brand new So got a lot of new talent in the chiefs group, but again hand-picked and I'm very excited about where we're taking the chiefs group next slide, please Okay, chiefs pull your phones out Take a picture of this slide. This is probably the most important slide. I'm gonna show you today Get this one right here. I'll stand in the middle if you want to get me in it, too You can get a good shot of me, you know, whatever we got going on here This is probably the most important slide right here. I think we're gonna pass out slides This is out there on our SharePoint. It is out there in slickums. You can get these overview slides Here's the deal. I talked to you about I'm not a personalist. I don't even have mill pds access I keep talking to him about that. I want to get it. I'll be like, I'm gonna the first one that's gonna get it I gotta go to tech school. Let's do it, right? But I can't change anything for you in the system you call me and say hey I need to help with my report no later-in-date my D roast whatever I don't have the system access to do anything Right, I still get a lot of phone calls and emails, but I don't have system access to do anything Everybody else based on what you see there for your assignment functional code. I'll pick on the fuels I talked about them a little bit earlier 2f master Sergeant Oliver is the 2f assignment manager So if you are in pol you're a 2f chief your first phone call if you have any kind of question any kind of concern It's gonna be the master Sergeant Oliver He's gonna be the one that's gonna help explain to you what's going on in that career field and where you might stand He's the one that knows the X's and knows of that career field I don't have the bandwidth for that I get a lot of phone calls a lot of emails and folks think that I am intimately familiar with the assignment We just loaded for you. I didn't even know that you got an assignment didn't know you were a surplus guess what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go to the assignment manager after you email and call me and say hey, sir an Oliver What's up with this he's I don't know I haven't talked to him and he's gonna be reaching out or I'm gonna be Sending you an email. Please start with your assignment manager with that your career field manager We're gonna talk a little bit about priority plans and how priority plans are different for chiefs and how we do chief assignments You should be talking with your career field manager about things that are going on in your career field That'll help you kind of understand how you should think about Navigating the assignment cycle as a chief next slide, please again very important slide So here's the chiefs group roles So again personal goals considered, but they're secondary to mission. So here's the deal team. I Would tell you I've been in the seat now about four to five months and I've been through all kinds of different peaks and valleys as I've kind of gone through learning this job It's it's been one of the more challenging jobs for me to learn because I've never done anything like this before But here's here's what I've come to realize 95% of every question every email everything that you present to the chiefs group and that you're thinking about Makes absolute sense to me It makes sense to me because I can put myself in your foxhole. I've been there I Have to look at assignments and I have to look at what we're doing from an enterprise approach So always understand that when my decision and when you're presenting something to me or when I'm having these conversations I'm thinking of the ripple effect for the career field. I'm looking at career field manning I'm taking into consideration. What's the impact on the family? What's happening in the career field? I'm sensing everything, but I'm ultimately going to make a decision based on an enterprise approach I need to be able to always I say this publicly defend that I am going to be extremely Transparent if I'm not transparent guess what you guys are going to tell each other somebody else is going to know It's going to get out in the next email. I'm going to get it's going to say Ludd, but you did it for so-and-so Yeah, I did but there was reasons why we did that and here's the thing So I'm going to be transparent So sometimes I I say that I set it up is when I'm giving you a response Even though I understand exactly where it's coming from from you guys My answer still may be a little bit different in what you said and I like to I like to have that Conversation and some of that dialogue so that then you can help understand my perspective be careful What you get on the streets? We were talking about that over here a little bit ago, and it was pretty good The other chiefs out there think they know the chiefs group, but they probably ain't read the handbook in a while, right? So talk to your assignment manager taking advisement you want to ask other chiefs What's going on and things like that, but when you really hey, where do I stand? What's my assignment going to look like mission versus kind of personal needs and stuff like that? Start with the assignment manager in your career field manager. I think you'll you'll get a little bit better there next slide, please Okay, chiefs group responsibilities. I am gonna walk through these a little bit more than I usually do newer crowd I want you to kind of understand some things What we do this is just a snapshot of some of them. So we have four assignment cycles per year I'm gonna talk a little bit more specific about those into the brief a little bit So you'll understand in the cycle where you have opportunities to influence and where the chiefs group kind of operates The four cycles though keep this in the back of your mind two primary cycles Your Alpha cycle and your Charlie cycle The two cycles in between that your Bravo and your Delta cycles. Those are called out of cycles Those out of cycles are just to find just to fill positions That during the regular cycle we filled it somebody didn't get medically cleared. We got to go back There's smaller cycles less opportunities But it prevents us from gapping positions longer when we get need to get in there and still fill them So you'll your two main primary cycles are what we're going through right now and in Charlie And what we're gonna go through in 23 alpha Alpha and Charlie are your primary cycles Delta and Bravo are your kind of out of cycles where they're smaller Typically reserved for more of your sit positions, but I'll be honest with you anything we need to fill We're gonna get in there. We're gonna get it filled. We don't want to gap anything any longer than we have to But here's the kicker. This will make sense at the end when I talk about some changes We're doing the report no later than dates For the out-of-cycle fills are the same as what they rolled over from from the normal cycle So I'm gonna give you an example. I want you to chew on it. We're gonna get back to it So in the middle of the summer in 23 alpha when I'm filling assignments a One January or a 10 January report no later in date probably makes a whole heck of a lot of sense It's a good half a year get somebody in there get their family situated wherever you're going makes a lot of sense fast forward to the out-of-cycle Which assignments flow the week before Thanksgiving and I hand out assignments the day before Thanksgiving And I tell you to be somewhere 10 January It's a problem. I've uncovered we got a fix we got to get after we're gonna talk about that a little bit We've got to have more stability for our chiefs, but the way the current system is designed It's just basically rolling over and using the same report no later in dates We got to do a little bit better about that. So that's kind of the background on Assignment cycles retirement waiver authority. So this is the first position as a chief that I've ever been in we're actually have some authority So I work for Lieutenant General Kelly a one in the Pentagon and he actually grants me authorities I am the decision-maker for active duty service commitment waivers, right? So that's the number one kicker that typically gets folks to retirement And I believe that there's someone in here you may not be honest with me about it Someone in here is already planning on their retirement now Haven't even sewn it on yet You know I'm gonna get to do my two years and then I'm gonna ask chief lead for a 12 month active duty service commitment waiver I get these things all the time right and look then don't accept the strike Hey, I appreciate that but what I'm gonna tell you is that active suits duty service commitment is there to protect your career Fields it's there to protect the organizations. It's making sure we have stability. It's there for your development I don't look at those things and just blindly approve them. So understand that I'm talking to your career field managers It's not automatic if you think that you can't do this for three years Then let's have that conversation right now You probably shouldn't be taking the strike from someone and that's just me having some real talk and just be brutally honest with it Right, there are times family situations and things that just make sense where we need to approve these active duty service commitment waivers I get that right but it shouldn't be the norm and I tell you over the first four months people look at this is like It's an automatic. What do you mean? Now you can wave 12 months wave it Wait a minute. There's a reason this shouldn't be looked at as an automatic. So please think about that and I would tell you Look internally if this is something you can't commit to for three years. You shouldn't be doing it Just just my point on that so just understand how I look at active duty service commitments and that But I also know that there is there's a story behind every one of them and we're gonna hear you out Command chief we'd run the command chief process. I got another slide for that What we'll hit on that a little bit. That's one of the big things That's probably what monopolizes and takes most of my time I manage the command chief assignments to command chief assignment books and things like that And I have a lot of demanding customers in the magcom command chiefs a couple of them are sitting right up here Right have to have to keep them close to me Nominative positions. These are positions, you know, like your career field manager and things like that So let me help you understand this you might want to be the career field manager and no doubt. You're good at what you do But if a nominative position you have to be nominated Right and that doesn't mean that you get to nominate yourself That means your senior radar your command chief is where that process starts It's gonna flow up to one of the magcom command chiefs And they're gonna nominate for the command and they're gonna tell me who to put on that sleeve You can call me all day long. You can tell me about what you're doing and what the career field needs and I love you I love it. I love the energy Hey, you're not getting on the slate unless you are nominated from your command So please understand that about nominated positions if you think you need to be in that conversation I wouldn't start it with Chief Ludd. I'd start having that conversation with your command chief and I wouldn't start having that conversation just an experience when The nomination flows out You should have probably already been talking about that command chief when you sat down with them as soon as you made chief and said You know, I kind of got a desire maybe to be the career field manager one day Or you get to your next base and you've been doing this a while and you sit down You have that intro with your with your command chief. Let them know what your desires are and what you want They'll help you get there, you know, but just understand that about nominative positions Wing commander course briefings just did that last week get an opportunity to go out at PCT pre-command training brief Wing and group commanders and that's a lot of good feedback for me You know, I provide them a lot of the same information I give you guys here But what I get is good feedback there about how we can help the organizations and I'm gonna talk to you about a few things That we're gonna do here in a little bit as well Course selection I'll tell you chiefs you're gonna say hey, I want development. I want to go to these courses We have limited inventory a vast majority of our senior leader development courses and things outside of the norm CLCs and stuff like that that we send folks to is really once you start getting into the group and the command chief levels Is where you really looked at that just we don't have the inventory We don't send every one of our command chiefs to a senior leader development course There's just not that many out there. We do have some folks in the Pentagon Ian I should is doing some great work up with half and staff to where we're starting to get more and more opportunities And I've opened the bandwidth up for some of them to like Take for example some of our if it's AOR Specific regional seminar. It's out in african, right? I don't need to send the command chief from pack af out there, right? What I need to do is I need to send somebody who's gonna be operating in that in that environment So that absolutely could be one of you sitting in here because you got a job going forward going into african or something Like that so we are trying to open them up But just understand this is low low inventory and low numbers of courses that we're talking about there But the chiefs group does manage that for you Advisor to the afselk so that's one of the things to there. So basically I said earlier. I work for lieutenant general Kelly He's my boss. He's my supervisor, but the reality is I probably work more for simsaf than anyone else SimSaf is the one that's kind of giving me my direction Asking me questions that here's a good one. Hopefully some of you guys got the bio update your bio and slick them's email That went out the other day. Here's why that happened. It's it's not just about assignments SimSaf sent me an email, you know over the weekend and said hey, I need the bios on these X number of chiefs Okay, cool. That's easy. I can go right in the slick them's pull that up But I'd go in less than 50% of you guys had bios in there. It wasn't you guys in this room But these were no kid in chiefs a couple of command chiefs on that I'm like I can't believe that so again help me the bios are important because you never know who's asking Again, if I'm looking at senior leader development courses I'm pulling your bio to look at that kind of you don't got a bio in there I'm probably gonna pass right on by you go to the next one, right? So help me with those kind of things That's a little bit of a silk work promotion board a panel selection So when you guys go on promotion boards and you get an opportunity to volunteer for that Don't commit to something that you that you cannot Commit to I understand covid's caused some challenges and you got to back out you're sick and things like that But if you raise your hand, that's awesome a very cool experience Just understand that until throughout that board you're an alternate and we're looking at you We might be trying to replace you so if you volunteer for something You're committing to it But we put those boards together and then send it down to AFPC and then they run and manage the boards And then every two years we do the chief grade review next slide, please Keeping an eye on my time. I don't want to go too much. So goal is to get to yes communicate early We do policy and execution in the same office. So that's how we're really different What I need you to focus on here though is go down to That the hand match every assignment So here's where things start to get different for you now as a chief and why you have a chief's group and how we look at your assignments First there's assignment policy that I have to follow So there's a dodie and there's law that we that we have to follow certain things with regret to assignment policy Can't wave everything but then you have CFM priority plans Career field managers releasing you if you want to go and do something outside of your functional area Vectors are important and then your volunteer status So just because you see something out there in slickums if you don't meet the requirements that are out there in slickums You can volunteer all day long what the assignment managers do is that's what they screen and that's what they scrub and that's Right say that Conversation is where they can help you know if you should be volunteering for something if they're going to consider you because if you're not going to be released If you want to go and you want to be you got a first sergeant background and you want to go be a match com You know first sergeant if your career field is 70% man, and they're not releasing anybody We're not putting you on that slate I don't care how good of a first sergeant you were or how bad you want it or that it's your dream assignment Got it. You need to start that conversation with your career field manager Get your career field manager on board because that's what I'm gonna do when the conflict comes up I'm gonna go to the career field manager I'm gonna talk to the assignment manager, and that's how we're gonna figure out, you know What do we need to do sometimes though? It's a location specific sometimes We need to take care of a family and sometimes the right answer is we need to release this chief So that they can go do one of these jobs because we need to get a family member who may have a disability or something to a Certain location that's then when I can start have different conversations with career field managers and assignment managers and say Hey, I understand I understand the health of the career field, but for this chief in this family This is right now, and we can get them on those slates and do that So that's kind of kind of help you start broad and where I get involved and where we navigate that a little bit But just keep in mind if you're ineligible you're not gonna make those slates The way you're gonna know if you made a slate is you're gonna get an email If you don't get an email you didn't make a slate if you volunteered for a sip job This cycle and you're still wondering if I got a chance What if you didn't get an automated generated email from slickums saying that your name has been pushed to x job You did not make the slate Right, so that's how you'll know what's going on and that usually we fill the sip positions This is an important nugget to write down. We fill the sip positions first Then we fill your functional positions. So when you're volunteering for jobs, it's not like oh if I volunteer for a short I'm gonna get hit for that first forget it's nothing like that first You do we feel all the sip jobs commander hires and then after those commanders get there the choices that they want Then we go down and we outline and we lay out the functional jobs and then those folks that didn't get hired We know where it starts so that again may change your rack and stack where you come out for some of those jobs next slide, please This Simon cycle I want to draw your attention to this is the assignment cycle. We're going through now I want to draw your attention to 17 December Self-initiated actions do Another very important date. We put these out there in slickums. This is publicized Anything you need to get done to influence your assignment has to happen before that date Not when we send out surplus notices. Oh my gosh did my email get blown up in one day like 240 some emails in one day Right because all of a sudden somebody got a surplus notice They didn't know and then they want me to help but again Okay, I got to go talk to your assignment manager that needs to go to sign managers But let's just say you've got a Junior in high school Right. It's the end of the year and you want to do an aside. You want to stay where you're at? We do approve most all has odds very few has odds We're trying to get to yes on just about everything But if you send me in has odd when I'm in the middle of the assignment cycle I'm going to say submit it after this assignment cycle is over. You may get an assignment this cycle Because and then I'll consider it going in the next cycle What I cannot do is consider a bunch of has sides the moment that everybody got surplus notices We can't operate the system that way. We're working over 500 assignments hand matching them What's really seven folks, you know actually doing the work? That's a lot and hand working all of them They're busy at that point We can't stop and start working all these other things to figure out what our inventory is going to be So you're not going to get much sympathy from me if you come in after self-initiated actions Do anything before that work with your assignment manager going to work it? They're going to get it done But that's very important because of the pace at what happens once we start working the cycle and getting through there You'll find that you'll get Very good help from the assignment managers when they're when they're in between the cycles And that's why it's kind of set up that way so again pay attention to that when we when we put these out there And again keep in mind the out of cycles. This is assignment cycle. I was explaining earlier and where we're at next slide, please Okay, moving to chief. So these are some things you need to understand I usually brush through the first three, but I'm gonna spend a little bit of time on them here Just so that you understand These terms and what they mean to you if you got a surplus notice that does not mean email chief flood Say that and just think a lot of people thought that that means. Oh, I got a surplus note Email chief flood. No, I love you guys, but don't email me Just because you got a surplus notice what that is that does not mean you're gonna necessarily move it means hey You're vulnerable to move the best way I can explain that is you're vulnerable In other words, you might be sitting in a master sergeant billet a senior mass sergeant billet There might be multiple chiefs in the same functional area there But a lot of variables go into if we move you or not that cycle a lot of variables like depending on the health of your Career field you might be over man. We might have more chiefs than we've got positions I might leave you there for a cycle or two, right? Talk into your career field manager will help you understand that Right, so career field managers will help you understand probably how vulnerable you are if you get a surplus notice I'm never gonna tell you you are or not getting assignment. I'm not gonna do it, right? But what I'm gonna tell you is surplus means you're vulnerable Surplus means when the listings come out you should be reviewing that and volunteering for jobs You want to go to do not volunteer for something? You don't want to do make me non-volume if You volunteer I'm assuming you want it if you rack and stack all the two F jobs out there fuels fuels chiefs I see you on there and you want to go to wherever Hey, they're volunteering. I'm gonna I'm looking at you as a volunteer only volunteer for what you want to go to the rest Of them we're gonna fill them and make us non-volume. That's how you kind of need to think through and navigate that That's what surplus moves must mover. You're going and you're going in that cycle and not much and not much is gonna change it You're on a remote. You know when what cycles you're gonna hit. We're gonna load you an assignment. Yeah Here's what it does not mean and and I love and this is hard, right? Because you guys talk to each other and you think something's coming up in the next cycle Can you just move me to the next cycle? Can you didn't know we we gotta hold to the process We got to keep the integrity of what we're doing in check And if you're a must mover in X cycle the choices are whatever the choices are there Chiefs will tell you they're gonna retire and they won't if I'm start holding you if I start holding you to say Okay, let me do you a favor and I'll get you the next cycle then you know Yeah, but so and so didn't retire and I wanted to go to Moody maintainers really love Moody, right? They want to get there and hey, so all of a sudden it's not open We're holding you to the cycle if you're a must mover and you get that notice Plan to move volunteer for things be talking to the assignment manager be talking to your career field manager That means you are gonna get an assignment in that cycle code 50s all those things. You're going Sip functional assignments. We do those fair and equitable I'm gonna talk a little bit more about group superintendent hiring and you'll get to kind of understand what we do with sip jobs a little bit more But that means the commander Gets to pick Basically, if it's a sip job, it's a group superintendent or something like that We're gonna give a slate of chiefs who meet the qualifications To a hiring authority and they're gonna get to pick which chief that they want and again They don't always get their number one. We're gonna talk about that in a minute. There's a deconfliction process We have to go through with some things The next the next one's there retirement actions already hit on that with the activity service commitment waiver a lot of Times if you're retiring then we're gonna project the vacancy. It's gonna go through a one and we're gonna go ahead and fill you Know this about retirement. I don't process your retirement a FPC does The only time the chiefs group will get involved is If you need a waiver or an exception to policy then there the approval authority is here And then we'll figure out what we got to do and don't follow the congressional on me If we if we can't support you because you're like 60% man. I Say that because it's happened Right but but again, right sometimes the answer is gonna be no if you have an active duty service commitment We still need you to serve and take an assignment and all of that That's why I tell you if you can't commit to those three years, right? We're thinking we're gonna move you You're gonna get an assignment. You're gonna go overseas You're gonna do some different things like that if that doesn't fit your lifestyle You may want to think about accepting that strike Fresh expertise So here's the difference between fresh expertise and non-standard movement, please please pay attention to this This is important. This confuses a lot of people Fresh expertise fresh expertise means you've been in a position Probably too long a lot of times think about a group superintendent. They've been there three years new commander comes in You're crushing it. You're doing a great job. You're doing absolutely everything We expect you to do and then some right, but your commander just says hey, I love you But I just want fresh fresh expertise in here. I just want a fresh perspective So that means good thing next cycle. We're gonna say, all right, we'll move you if we approve it We're gonna send you on you get say in where you go you get to volunteer for assignments You get to do whatever you're gonna essentially be a must-mover, right? And so we're gonna move you on in the next cycle nothing bad about fresh expertise Nothing bad at all non-standard movement the complete opposite end of the spectrum. You did something stupid, right? or you've been substantiated in an IG investigation and We've decided to keep you in our Air Force. I'll tell you Ludd's opinion some folks need to just go the hardest thing that I've been told to do is Yeah, we need to find a place for this chief to go. We can't have him around airmen Just think about that for a minute. Just think about that for a minute, right? How do I navigate that? Right, but I but again the decision was made. We're keeping them. We're going here's the difference between That and fresh expertise. I'm sending you where I think you need to go Based on everything that I'm gonna sense and take in I got to have conversation with commanders where we're gonna send you and you're going quick In other words, if it's a non-standard movement, you don't get a vote. You're gonna get assignment your vote might be Retirement, I'll probably approve that active duty service commitment waiver to let you All right So if you want if you want to him you want to get me do a non-standard movement do something stupid and we'll get you out There for us That we'll probably talk a sense after some point will bring up continuation board some things that we're looking at some things That we're implementing stuff like that. It'll end up falling under the chief's group But we still got some work to do but it'll be a way of putting some teeth behind do not retain Next slide, please All right, I'm gonna get to a point where we can have some Q&A to hopefully The chief's handbook, I'm gonna speed up a little bit the chief's handbook get out there read it You guys probably got it sent to you when you made chief Everything I'm talking about here today. There's something on that in the chief's group before you call that assignment manager Look up. Oh Assad high school deferment read the paragraph on it It will probably let you know what you need to do We've got templates out there and slickums and all of that read the handbook They explain all of this stuff here what we do. I'm not gonna belabor in all of this We've talked about them know this about 365 deployments if you want to go back to the base You were at we won't backfill you if you want to move on and go somewhere else the next cycle We're gonna backfill that that assignment there with 365's and know that for the most part They're not they're not PCS's so you don't get the same entitlements. They're deployments We're still gonna move you after the fact and things like that on your next assignment But when you're gone and when you go some of the entitlements for your families are different because it is a deployment Not a PCS something to keep in mind when you're volunteering for those 365's Next slide, please All right group positions. This is what I want to talk to you guys about a couple of things that I want you to think about My preference my preference is doesn't always mean we're gonna do it this way You need to go do a functional job before we start talking about putting you in a group for the most part most folks in here There's some maybe some exceptions in here medical communities a little bit different sometimes like that your first job might be a group But for the most part you need to go give your community 12 months back You need to go do a functional job before we're talking about waving 12 months, right? You know a commander out there somewhere and they love you and you're gonna try to get them to by name request you and wave all This 12 months and everything like that I'm really not having and I'm really not filling it. We really need to keep some integrity there You can be by name requested if you're local at an installation and we're not gonna have to pay to move you and some things like that We'll consider it but just know that you know really you should be in the seat about 12 months before we're talking about group positions for you But know this though when we do put you on a slate and you interview and you know because you've been talking to the commander You're there number one right you might also be number one on three other slates that we put you on They're all happening at the same time Right there is a myriad of factors there PCS restrictions multiple number one selections join spouse You know can a spouse be supported somewhere so we have to deconflict all the number ones and all of that So sometimes commanders they don't get their number one they get their number two or their number three It's our goal to get them their number one or two, but sometimes that doesn't work out You know sometimes you're gonna just know I was number one on there But we had to place the number two there because joint spouse could be selected now of a sudden We're looking at you for something else. There is a myriad of different things that we have to navigate that comes into the hand matching That's where I tell you that I'm never gonna tell you with certainty if you're gonna get a job or not because there's a lot of things I can't predict that will go down and Group I put this up there because that's just a good example of it next slide, please Okay command chief process again. We're not gonna talk about this too much But a couple things that I want you to know the way you get in the game for command chief Consideration is you are vectored on your EPR. It's the only EPR vector that actually means anything It carries any weight right now with anything we do means you are ready now Command chief That gets you to the screening board Primary vector primary vector absolutely not secondary vector ready now primary vector command chief That gets you to the screening board all that means in is the board is gonna look at your records This is a board with It is chaired by a lieutenant general SimSaf sits on that board three match com or co-com command chiefs sit on that board and then Three general officers are also on that board and they really scrub and look at the records when I started in a chief Group day one on the job is when we did a command chief screening board I was absolutely impressed with our match com command chief SimSaf and those geos with how they just went through the records They can talk about things in there because it's it's a it's a non-sanction board So it's a little bit different, but it's about experience look I don't want to crush your dreams if you want to be a command chief You need to go out and you need to get experience as a chief Being a chief in the United States Air Force that is not sitting at one spot for three years Thinking that then all of a sudden you're gonna be ultra competitive for a command chief Even if I could put you on that list a wing commander still wouldn't hire you Go out do a job for for two years go on to the next job get some experience You know if you've been sitting in an MFM position for three or four years and all of a sudden You're wondering why you're not getting put on a command chief candidates list It's because you don't have the ex the breadth of experience of your peers across the enterprise So just understand that that we're really looking at experience a lot of other factors How are you leading other chiefs and those kind of things? But that's what the screening board is looking at and then if you come out on that list Then everything flows through your Magcom command chief again You guys are well well early in the seat to be thinking about that But just understand that it starts with your EPR vector if you're interested in going down that path talk to your command chief Sit down with your wing command chief. They'll explain to you the process and tell you hey Here's some steps They might help you get the next job to start building that resume so you'll be competitive one day next slide, please Assignment Stabilities and initiatives not implemented yet. This gets after some of the stuff that I told you I've been finding and seeing over the last Four months that I think we need to change so here's the thing team Some of you are gonna find this to be a good thing some of you are gonna hate me for it And I'll take that right now 12 months and you can move So for some of you guys that means I can move you at 12 months And we're moving a lot of chiefs way too soon. We're burning our chiefs out more important at the number one chief Complaint that I get from commanders is about organizational stability You take a location like Altis where maybe folks don't like to be there for too long chief gets there They might do six months. They're already in another assignment cycle. They're putting in to go somewhere They get an assignment. We might even deploy them in there. They're really operating without a chief We need more organizational stability. I have the team right now peeling it back to see what does it take for us to go to? 24 month Time minimum time on station for you to volunteer for an assignment there will still be nothing is an absolute There will still be times career field managers Vector positions and things like that where we're gonna have to move chiefs before 24 months But the standard the goal is gonna be we're trying not to move you more than 24 months, right? So I'm trying to figure out what the words look like there How do we implement that but I will tell you we're gonna go away from 12 months I will tell you that right now trying to get there to 24 months Some folks love that because it gives a little bit more time and stability where they're at There's other folks that are somewhere like no, I want to be able to leave every 12 months and go do something It's just crushing our organization something we got to get after the 90-day report no later in day It's the example. I gave you earlier. Look, I owe you better than that I owe you better than a 30-day report no later in day The standard needs to be 90 if there's a mission related reason why we need to move that up then commanders can submit that Hey, and if you volunteer to go early, you can go early, right? You can work all of that and we'll work it But I think the standard in the starting point needs to be 90 not 30 days So that those are some areas that we're going we want to be able to kind of move things I got to work with career field managers here priority plans career field managers control the priority plans You got a problem with your priority plan talk to your career field manager But right now you got to be moving up the priority plan and that drives a lot of how we look at your assignments I want to be able to give you some flexibility. Maybe tearing them out Maybe be able to move lateral from the tears Here's the deal. What's the difference between 22 and 25 probably nothing right from a job responsibility standpoint So maybe if it works for the family, we should be able to consider that there's probably a significant difference between 22 and 2 Right you need experience for chiefs to kind of go and do that So I'm working with career field managers to see how we can kind of change that smaller career fields You got five chiefs. That's tough. Right. That's tough to work larger career fields We've got some flexibility so where we can't have that flexibility I want to use it and then notifications. This doesn't apply to you guys with the exception of I guess it does know this when you Volunteer for an assignment your wing commander and your senior raider get an automated generated email in slickums They get that every time you do something in slickums So if you're uncertain and every day you're going in there and you're reordering your vectors or stuff Whatever think about what you're looking like to your wing commander and your command chief They're getting an email every time you so think about it We're not going to do anything before the end of the week think about it And then at the end of the week maybe say, okay, this is my thing and get it there You know, I get it maybe once or twice through the week You might have a conversation and here's something to talk to your wing command chiefs The reason that they're cc'd on that is they should be involved in some of that What you're thinking where you're at you're thinking about applying for a job to be a command You've got no PME experience. What are you doing? You know stop slow down talk to them. Tell them what you're interested in. That's what they're there for make them earn their paycheck Next slide, please Final thoughts. Okay, and then we're gonna get into some Q&A. We got about 15 minutes left get to know your assignment manager Please do not use me as the easy button. I love you all I really do I really do but I just don't have the bandwidth I just do not have the bandwidth. Please start the conversation with your assignment managers Act of duty service commitment your responsibility. You're signing up for it. You're taking the stripe. We'll leave it at that Communicate often and early challenge versus hardship. So here we go You're gonna all come to me and say I got this hardship. You will use the word hardship It's a challenge. Hey PCS and every 18 months go look at my bio, right? It's it's not unique to you It's what's happened all I'm trying to get after it systematically, right? So we're not doing it That is not a hardship. That's a challenge. I get it. It's hard on your families. I want to change it I want to fix it, but I can't just not PCS you this assignment cycle because we you PCS 18 months ago You know, it is what it is with that hardship We have a chief at one of our locations Wife's got Luke Eric Luke Eric's disease. She's gonna pass away Chief is at 29 years. She's been at this location way too long. I Don't care the right thing to do is to leave that chief and that family right there where they're at Everybody told me we need to move them make them retire to whatever not in my book. We're not gonna do that That's a hardship, right? You're going through a divorce, right? Maybe you've got a spouse It's got an alcohol problem. So you're kind of single parenting it right now, but you're not single parenting it You know and you're trying to work through those things We can give you a buy on an assignment cycle talk to your command chief and float it up like that, right? I shouldn't be your first call. I'm gonna ask you if your command chief knows about it I get it sometimes it can be embarrassing But you need to have those conversations and then we're gonna get you, you know some help and things like that Once the assignment is loaded the assignment is loaded. You're going don't come back to me in the next cycle and say that Hey, all of a sudden my dream assignments up there Then when we can help develop a plan. So I want to go back to what I was just telling you about You know, hey, we can help you we can accommodate I'm gonna accommodate you and let's say that accommodation is got it. That's a significant problem I'm gonna give you 12 months. We're not gonna touch you for an assignment I don't care if you're the the number one person to move never been on a remote you name it Give me the scenario to take care of you and your family. We're not gonna touch you for an assignment for 12 months What do you think's gonna happen in 12 months? You're gonna get an assignment right but before that I'm gonna get an email Saying we need to do another exception to policy because we didn't plan about it Sometimes the plan is the tough conversation Maybe it's an active duty service commitment and it's time for you to retire early because we just can't that the Air Force isn't conducive For for your family and what you're doing. Those are some of the tough conversations some of the tough things We need to do what I need you to do is have a plan. I need you to think okay Cheese group just said one cycle four cycles whatever it is know that when you come back to me at the end of that I'm not gonna give you another exception to policy for the same thing. It would be a very rare circumstance Let me put it that way I won't want to say never because depending on what's going on there could be a reason why we need to extend it but a lot of times That's that's probably been the hardest thing for me to handle is Folks will take it personal and they'll make it personal and then all of a sudden. I'm a really bad person Want to call me some names and things like that and it's it's just it's not fun for I don't care Who you are when you're in that seat, but it's not personal at that point, right? We need to have a plan and we need to move on We can't continue to leave folks in assignments for forever next slide, please questions and comments, so we've got about 15 minutes left then you want to The scientist has to go through and validate every single person that volunteers for a job to make sure they qualify for me So my volunteer for a band position in Australia The only thing I can do is hit the play music on my iPod or one of my music things That's all that's all the skills I got. I'm not going to Australia. Cool And now I just wasted a time looking at my records to see if I can play the clarinet I'll add to that too. I'll add to that. That's where your wing command chief can help you I can't I've said that a couple of times you should be communicating your way if you don't know that's okay You're new in this if you don't know go talk to your wing command chief and say I saw this What is it? Do you think I meet the qualifications to do that? They're going to guide you in the right direction I told you said oh, I have I knew that was gonna happen. They they warned me. They're dialing. I think the next speaker He said read the handbook Don't volunteer for assignments today the Simon's cycle opens I feel that I wouldn't vote for emails from you because you know we go through there as I advertise assignments I go there every time the first thing I do when the Simon's cycle opens up and I make sure any assignment I was advertising so your your wing command chief, whatever, matchbox, any assignment, any cheap billets And I respond before advertising. I go in there and make sure they're being ran There's plenty of time to go there. I'm like hey, I'm missing an ad or hey This ad is wrong. I want to cross flow So so my point is they change from the first day The last assignment cycle you're gonna see differences in there as we go through there and find ones that were missed or tweak things Hey, what about that? Oh, we didn't think about that. See if it was good. Okay, change that to that So there's a difference there. So I'd ask you wait Into the Simon cycle before you go in there and start out and put in for jobs Absolutely good points. Good points All right questions in the back Hey chief senior Rodriguez off at Air Force Base. So talking about Assad's and improvements Just want to ask this question. So say One gets approved. So then, you know, the chief is good for that period They're locked in I guess and then during that Assad There's a sip job that the chief is qualified for on that same base and it's maybe a three-year job Can the chief apply for that sip job While they're doing there if it's on the same base, I would consider you for the job only if it's on the same base Yes, right only if it's on the same base. Here's the deal. Here's the rule you get a side You're I'm I'm hold you're holding me till I'm not moving you I'm holding you till you're not moving all of a sudden dream sip job opens up in another base I'm not considering you for it. If it's at the same location. I will JV Okay, I see it right. I don't know everything but you see where I'm going, right? He's here to say ludge. You're wrong He'd say chief flood, you know, but all right, cool. All right excellent Chief Washington Luke Air Force Base along the same lines with the side if you And the family have an agreement you you have a junior and there's gonna be a senior you want to Not lose the assignment because I know Assad keeps you in place And in the family is okay Like can't is there some way that you can take the cheap field of group of a field of spot for the career field Leave the family in place so that they're stable and the kid graduates How do you navigate that situation? I have so again, that's not the chief's group So if you say hey, I don't want to do an aside and I'm gonna take an assignment I'm gonna leave my family back here so they can figure out high school There's just normal assignment rules through AFPC that'll help you navigate that process the chief's group wouldn't do that Make sense Are only from Lackland Air Force Base Question on the tears on some of the assignments they have tier one two two two three Do you have to be vectored to apply for those or is it just based on the career field and whether it's a cross-flow? It depends on your it depends on your career field I'm talking with career field managers if I could get my wish for a day with CFM's It would be that we standardized that process across all AFSC so we're doing it as some career fields You have to be vectored some career field managers are good with communicating that others not so much But for the most part yes, if you're applying for a job in your career field vectors You have got to be vectored for that tier in order for us to consider it if your career field tears positions But they don't provide vectors then you're all in as long as you're moving up the priority plan Chief senior Carell from Joint Base Angels Talking about the ever-changing AOR and 365 deployments. How much is Afscent involved in that process when it comes to assignment cycles? Or in even in the joint environment, right? So Afscent is absolutely involved right now We're canceling some 9g assignments because we're redoing the way we're doing in that theater and that has that has shook up Sometimes I asked Afscent to communicate with us a little bit more so we can get in front of it Last one I learned about the same time the chief learned it got canceled. We got to do a little bit better than that the other part of it you said 365 where was he at? 365 is in the joint was it? Yes, so so here's the way the process works for all of those assignment validation So one entity I haven't talked about much is your magcom a1 your magcom a1 or the owning magcom a1 For all of those positions, whatever they are they validate those vacancies And that's how they get to slickums to be advertised in the first part The chief's group is simply taking what you told me you need and we're making sure that we put eligible chiefs against those Requirements, but the magcoms the magcoms kind of own that process from getting them into slickums So we don't hear them a chief senior salise from Hickam question real quick is If it's not already shared can we share the CFM priority list as we're going through in rack and stacking as well as any Forecasted unfunded that are soon to be so we don't put ourselves in a spot And then have to didn't bounce out in regards to that stability piece that you're you talked so forecasted unfunded is a good question We update that as they come in That you know you can look out at the chief grade review for things that were done in two years ago All the all the command chiefs have that information But your career fields the timeline in which that happens varies by how that they operate in there The priority plans are absolutely shareable your career field managers should be sharing them now If your career field manager isn't sharing with you priority plans You should ping them and say hey, where's our priority plan and guess what they changed them Periodically to so you might have one that six months old It may not be accurate and that may impact you for getting non-vault Right if you think that you're in the number two priority plan on your career field And then all of a sudden that shifts down to number 12 You just got a little bit more vulnerable to be non-vault for something versus the chief to sitting in the number two position All right cool five minutes Hey chief is chief Randy James from Langley This chief for any chief for any James from Langley is this may be related to the previous question As far as the secondary vector will that ever reflect in slickums unless that's the priority plan that he was talking about secondary vector in Reflecting in so comes for yes, so we have our primary vector. That's reflected in slickums Is is there a secondary vector or is that the CFM priority plan that he was referring to it? I don't think it's the priority plan if there's a secondary vector in slickums I have to go back and get with the slickums team to find out, you know, how that would look I know we're modernizing the site right now Not an expert in the and what it's actually showing But let me go back and take a look at that and see and we can get back with you guys on that answer Can you answer that? Okay, go ahead JV Use your outside voice. We got two minutes Yes, so it has to reflect in slick your secondary fact vector has to reflect in slickums for you to to bounce off of Is that correct? Yeah, it makes the best the best way that I would explain it to is if it's not in slickums It should be in slickums because that's the only way we know it Yeah, because yeah, we had secondary that comes at vectors that were not reflected in slickums and that's how based our rack and stacks Thanks Thank you All right one more question. All right. Is it to or One more one more question Yes, sir. Thank you chief as Sergeant Parrish from joint base San Antonio The question I have is in regards to Again vectoring but specifically to the out-of-cycle so curious to see if the out-of-cycle comes out and You know, there's an assignment available. However, the Members that are wanting that assignment were not vectored. How does that go if you're not vectored? You're not eligible Right. It's that simple if you're not vectored because we're not going to put you on a slate for something You're ineligible for so again if you disagree with your vectors and things like that and I'll tell you I have an opinion It's this isn't the form for it right now on career field managers providing these vectors and doing some of that It's the process we use right now. I don't know that they should be in there for all vectors But if you're not vectored for a position, we're not going to consider you for it You're ineligible. You don't qualify from from our standpoint. So hey team, I appreciate everybody I appreciate the questions. I'm here for the rest of the week through Thursday We won't be here for the match come day JV is here He is set up in the back in the break room. Please see him I'm paying him to be here to kind of help you with some of those questions But again, if you if you need anything and you're unsure, let us know start with your assignment manager We appreciate you guys. I do know that there's a lot of uncertainty when you're in the seats here But let us know where we can help. Thank you and then most important congratulations You