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WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Airmen need more time to focus on their core missions.
Air Force senior leaders said that’s the message they received from Airmen and it’s the reason they made the decision to reduce additional duties.
In a memorandum to Airmen released Aug. 19, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein announced the service has established a task force titled “Airmen’s Time,” charged with streamlining, and in some cases eliminating, additional duties.
“We have heard your concern and frustration,” James and Goldfein said in the memo. “In meeting with Airmen at installations around the globe, we have heard consistently that additional duties assigned at the unit level affect our ability to focus on core missions, which in turn impacts our readiness.”
After conducting a review of the duties under the direct control of the Air Force, the task force was able to eliminate, reassign or reduce 29 of 61 specific duties identified under Air Force Instruction 38-206, “Additional Duty Management.”
Reassigned duties will be carried out by commander support staff, which are being re-established over time as a central part of Air Force squadrons, or through other means that do not require Airmen to be pulled away from their core missions.
Over the last several years, the Air Force began adding support manpower to squadrons to help relieve some administrative burdens, but it will take time before most units are able to begin absorbing some of the reassigned additional duties.
Air Force senior leaders said that’s the message they received from Airmen and it’s the reason they made the decision to reduce additional duties.
In a memorandum to Airmen released Aug. 19, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein announced the service has established a task force titled “Airmen’s Time,” charged with streamlining, and in some cases eliminating, additional duties.
“We have heard your concern and frustration,” James and Goldfein said in the memo. “In meeting with Airmen at installations around the globe, we have heard consistently that additional duties assigned at the unit level affect our ability to focus on core missions, which in turn impacts our readiness.”
After conducting a review of the duties under the direct control of the Air Force, the task force was able to eliminate, reassign or reduce 29 of 61 specific duties identified under Air Force Instruction 38-206, “Additional Duty Management.”
Reassigned duties will be carried out by commander support staff, which are being re-established over time as a central part of Air Force squadrons, or through other means that do not require Airmen to be pulled away from their core missions.
Over the last several years, the Air Force began adding support manpower to squadrons to help relieve some administrative burdens, but it will take time before most units are able to begin absorbing some of the reassigned additional duties.
AF to reduce additional duties
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TSgt Joe C. would not ordinarily comment on an AF post like this except that I have an ABS assigned to my command. Just talked to the Squadron CO on Saturday and he is not only fired up about this, but is high on the new Chief!
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In my Air Force career, no other area was more associated with 'Mission Creep' then additional duties. The AF needs to not only do something about it, but continually pay attention to it because it is an on going problem, and it is a morale deflator.
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I am glad to see them bringing back the "orderly room" or CSS as they call it. Should have never taken it away to begin with. Orderly rooms has their own personnelist, admin staff, computer support etc that handled everything at the squadron level and it was efficient. Taking it away was a mistake. Glad to see it coming back.
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