Posted on 05/14/2014 7:17:34 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Senior Air Force leaders have drafted a budget-driven plan that would strip the three- and four-star generals who oversee major commands of their authority to manage their bases. A draft of the plan obtained by The Washington Times shows that the Air Force is aiming to consolidate support operations under the umbrella of a single center, known as the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center.
The tricky endeavor would shuffle day-to-day base management issues — such as construction, maintenance and procurement of equipment and supplies — from under the authority of the senior generals who command the bases to the leadership of a two-star general who would run the support center, according to the draft proposal. The plan was born out of a directive from Air Force leadership last year to reduce headquarters operations costs at least 20 percent by 2019. It cites reductions contained in the Budget Control Act that were implemented by the Obama administration in 2011. The consolidation would affect the service’s 10 major commands, each of which specializes in areas such as technical training, management of non-nuclear combat air power and global air mobility.
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You might call it “purge in place.”
The Army and Navy have done it this way for years. And I think USAF should be re-absorbed into the Army anyway.
He would probably outrank the poor schlub who went to flight school.
Yeah, because creating a separate command and support structure will reduce the overall costs of running a base.
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How does this work ?
A tractor known as a tug hooks on to an aircraft and tows it to its location
Three of the four tugs on base are acting up and need new distributer caps. Before the “reform” the supply sgt would go into the parts cage and get the parts and the tugs repaired as needed.
The new procedure using inventory control allows only a minimum of spare parts on hand. And maintainence filling out a three page report as they work on the tug. But because of inventory control only one cap is now available. The supply sgt must fill out the req form in quadruplicate with a copy going up to each in the chain of command and finaly to the Pentagon for purchase approval . Meanwhile the one tug that is available is used to tow the aircraft into a reventment (if in a foward airbase) as radar detects suspicious aircraft approaching....Well you get the idea..
Of course, Mr. Dunne. And your first, and possibly last, assignment will be to the beautiful northern Siberia kolkhoz. We expect great production from you.
Consolidate support operations under the umbrella of a single center.
The central committee makes move.
A more indirect clue comes from Clif at HalfPastHuman (web bots) where his data suggests that federal interagency conflicts for funding will manifest as defaults in payments to vendors (read DoD contractors) in a time frame about 90 days after the Wall St market goes bearish.
Both of those inputs suggest that a DoD contractor should be making a good plan B now.
“I can just see a tank commander flying an airplane.”
I can see pilots doing what they’re supposed to be doing again: supporting forces on the ground properly. Ain’t ever going to happen with USAF, who are infected with “Old guy and a sportscar” syndrome: nothing but sexy planes for those guys.
gheesh…. back to having to trade paperclips for helicopters sort of back channels supply system …...
They have gone back and forth with this nonsense over the years in aircraft maintenance. First centralized maintenance then de-centralized maintenance, then back to centralized........
What happens is some officer will regurgitate a failed plan, get promoted and the plan will fail like in the past. It takes about five years for all this to happen. It’s a vicious cycle. Sometimes they actually come up with some good ideas but after five years someone will come along and screw that up.
A prime example was the camo uniforms. Those worked then they changed the pattern because of Iraq and now they don’t blend in to any vegetation on the planet. The new ATACS and Multi-Cam pattern works so hopefully the troops won’t stick out like a bulls eye. Five years from now they may have a pink camo though.
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