 Hello, 127th Wing. I'm General Momen and welcome to the November drill today. We're filming from the 127th maintenance squadron electronic countermeasures shop or the pod shop This is where they maintain the pods that we put on 810s to help protect the 810s in a contested environment If we ever have to go into a real combat situation In fact every year this shop gets recognized by a combat shield assessment from air combat command for all the great work But today I want to recognize technical sergeant Mazur for all the great work that he's doing for not only the 127th Wing But for the entire enterprise Earlier this spring he deployed for 90 days to led air base where he was in charge of the entire shop that maintained All the electronic countermeasures pods or ECM pods across the entire sent com AOR He did some great work out there making sure their processes and procedures were up to date and doing well Most recently he was handpicked to go to the Duluth Air National Guard base to help them With their pod shop and make sure that their processes and procedures were all good and that their pros were able to go into combat at any time I got firsthand account from their supervision out there of all the great work that Sergeant Mazur did So with that sir, I want to thank you for everything you did and here's my coin appreciate all the great work All right next I would like to talk about This drill weekend as you walk around you'll notice that there's not many senior leaders around in fact just about every Commander every chief most senior master sergeants and a lot of supervisors will not be here this drill weekend because we're all going to be up in Lansing for our annual Michigan National Guard senior leader conference that conference is an opportunity where all the air and Army senior leaders get together to ensure that we have a strategic vision and we're all strategically aligned moving forward So it's going to be a great event for us up up in Lansing But for you back here, we just ask everybody to do your AFSC training and everything else that you need to do to be ready Next I'd like to talk about how the Air Force is changing the way we present forces for the combat and commander or into the combat area Some of the the terminology has changed for example now. We use terminology called force elements So there's mission generation force elements, which really hasn't changed much from what you currently see a mission generation Element for example is our 810 lead package or our KC 135 lead package That really has not changed for anything But what has changed is now they've added three different force elements moving out into the future There's a command and control force element There's an air base squadron force element and a base defense force element What I want to talk specifically about today is the command and control force element of which the 127th wing is leading the way in the National Guard to posture. So what does that mean? We're redesigning the wing specifically the wing headquarters with an air staff or a staff and again for those of you Who are understand what the staffs are they number one through six and each have a specific function and work Essentially directly for the wing commander That is about a 72 person Package that gets put together and if we ever have to deploy as one all 72 go out as a command and control element Why is this important because next June? We have been handpicked by General Low to be one of the first lead elements or lead wings For command and control for air defender 23 Again next June the lead the command and control element for the 127th wing is going to deploy to Germany for air defender 23 we were selected for this duty by General Low himself and the reason why he selected us is Because of what he saw during our last large-scale readiness exercise in Alpina when he came out to visit He said that the 127th wing stands ready to do this mission. So well done for everyone because you've earned it Finally don't forget a couple days from now is election day do your civic duty go out there and vote Veterans Day is just behind that and then Thanksgiving is coming up a few weeks after that Enjoy your time with your family It is our goal that the 127th wing is the best led most efficient effective and adaptable Organization in the United States Air Force. I appreciate your leadership and I appreciate your professionalism