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- Good afternoon, thank
you for joining us today.

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Chief Collum and I are here to,

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we wanna give an update
on what the Wing is doing,

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on the status and the
response to the coronavirus,

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to help our members out there.

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A couple of things I wanna discuss today.

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The first is my intent

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and my priorities for the wing.

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My number one priority
is taking care of you,

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our airmen, and your families.

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We've already taken many steps
over the last couple of weeks

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to minimize the risks
of the virus spreading

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amongst our members and their families.

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As it's starting to rapidly increase here

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in the San Antonio area.

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First thing we did was we instituted

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sending home people at risk,

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most at risk for the virus,

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and additionally we moved
onto where we are now,

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with only mission
essential people coming in

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to do work.

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Everyone else to the max extent is doing

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telecommute work, which has we know

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has been some issues with that,

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and is slowing things down productively.

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But it's worth the

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decrease in productivity
to keep our members safe.

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Additionally, we've
rescheduled the April UTA.

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When I say rescheduled, we've moved it

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to the Thursday or Friday
before the June UTA

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to create a super UTA.

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We will have some people
coming in during the

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what was the April UTA,

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some of our deployers who
still need to do some training,

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before they can head
out in their deployment.

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We'll also have some other people come in,

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maintenance to work on
some of the aircraft.

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So we'll be some people
there that weekend,

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but by and large everyone
else has been rescheduled.

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If members want to,

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you know, talk to your supervisor,

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we're offering up a
liberal reschedule policy.

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With the possibility of also
doing telecommunication,

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and Chief will talk more
about that here in a minute.

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We're trying to provide as
much flexibility as we can,

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we know funding is the
issue for some people.

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And we're trying to give
them the opportunity

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to still participate in those UTA periods,

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instead of having to wait
until June for that to happen.

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As of right now we do
not have a decision yet

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on what we will do for the May UTA,

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that is still in the works and
expect more details on that

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as it comes out soon.

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The biggest key to us
being able to help you

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is we have to communicate both up and down

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the chain of command.

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We're doing everything we
can to push information

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out to you, our members, to
give you the latest information

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on what's going on as things
seem to change on a daily

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or sometimes even shorter basis.

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But additionally, we need
communication from you,

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if you've got needs or concerns or issues,

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funnel those up through
your supervisor on up

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through the chain of command.

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I'm going to let Chief
Collum talk more about that.

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- Thank you, sir.

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Okay, so to meet the Commander's intent

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of taking care of our airmen

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we've put a couple of things in place.

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We've put a committee together.

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That committee gonna consist of

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Sergeant Cabiero as the
wing first sergeant,

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working closely with airmen
and family readiness,

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the chaplain's office, public affairs.

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We included Sergeant Chevlin
as the wing career advisor.

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Sergeant Rodriguez and Captain Gerome

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as professional development
committee members

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that are CCO.

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So we can knock out
professional development,

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keep folks interacting, and participating,

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and hopefully still meeting some strategic

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alignment goals.

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Okay, that committee's number one priority

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is to make 100 percent contact
with every single airman.

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One of the things that
we've asked them to do

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is to make sure we're reaching out asking

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what the needs are.

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We're going to combine those
needs into what we call

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a virtual airmen tree list.

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That virtual list will go over

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to airmen and family readiness.

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We'll put it out on social media.

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If you go to airforce connect app,

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click on the family
icon and then resources,

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and caring for our airmen.

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Put your need out there.

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That's gonna go directly to
airmen and family readiness.

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Airmen and family readiness
will marry up the sponsors

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of those needs and get
that information back out

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to the person.

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Again, privacy is paramount.

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Nobody's name will be out there.

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And please, please utilize that.

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The committee's second priority is to

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be innovative with
professional development.

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We're gonna start building virtual classes

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of professional
development, bullet writing,

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declaration writing,
and so on and so forth.

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These classes will allow our members

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to stay connected with each
other, interact with each other,

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and more importantly, feel
like you have a purpose

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and still meeting the
mission's objectives.

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The Alamo Wing is a family.

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We're gonna get through this.

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We're gonna take care of each other.

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Our number one priority again,
like the Commander said,

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is taking care of our
airmen and their families.

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We're looking forward to seeing you

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as soon as we can be together again.

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- After taking care of
airmen, my second priority

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is mission execution.

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And top of that list
right now is deployments.

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So, deployments, there's a
lot of rumors going out there,

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but deployments have not been canceled.

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The Secretary of Defense has
issued a stop movement order

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for all oconus deployments.

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So, what does that mean to you guys?

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If you were scheduled
to start a deployment,

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your orders are still
gonna start at that time.

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If you've got pre-deployment training

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that has to be accomplished,

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we're still gonna do that
pre-deployment training.

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However, I need you to
check with your supervisors

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to confirm that those
classes are still going on

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as scheduled, there
have been some changes.

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So, check with your supervisors,

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and plan to go off and do
your pre-deployment training.

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When you're done with that,
you're gonna come back here

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to home station at Lackland.

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From that point,

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things will go on hold.

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At some point you will get further orders,

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and when you will proceed
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then you'll do some health prescreening,

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medical prescreening before that happens.

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As long as your screen
clear, then you'll proceed

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on your deployment at that point.

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If there's issues with
the screening process,

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or it's determined that
you're at risk for the virus,

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then the possibility is that
you could be quarantined.

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Quarantining location will
be up to the discretion

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of your unit commander.

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So be working with him to
provide more guidance on that,

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as we move forward.

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In addition to deployments,

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we're also, right now,
working on FTU flying.

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The Commander of Air
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has declared that formal
training is mission essential,

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and he's got the backing
of Chief of Staff,

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and the rest of our leadership.

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And so, we're going to
continue that here at 433rd.

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So we're still training
students, and we're gonna

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continue doing that as long as we have

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the people and resources.

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Now, we're balancing that
requirement against the need

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to keep our population safe.

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We've implemented different
work groups, work teams,

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so that if someone does
contract the virus,

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it minimizes the risk of spreading

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amongst the entire work force.

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We're also trying to
isolate incoming students

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to confirm that they're
healthy before they get mixed

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into the general population.

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So we're doing everything we can

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to maximize student training
while minimizing the risk

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to our force, and we're
gonna continue to do that

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as long as we can.

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I wanna echo what the Chief said,

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communication is the key.

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We're a family, and we're gonna
get through this together,

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but we need to have your help

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in knowing what your needs are.

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So, fill out those requests

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for the virtual airmen tree,

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get that information to us and we'll push

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information out to you as
well, as quickly as we can.

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Thank you very much,

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and I look forward to seeing you next time

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we're all back together.