Travis Taiwlind: Oct. 7, 2022

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Travis pets can earn treats in Exchange Pet Photo Contest

Army & Air Force Exchange Service Public Affairs

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — No tricks, but lots of treats await Travis military pets and their families who enter the Army & Air Force Exchange Service and Hill’s worldwide Howl-O-Ween Pet Photo Contest.

Authorized Travis Exchange shoppers 18 years and older – now through Oct. 31 – may submit a photo of their pets in their cutest Halloween costumes for a chance at $3,000 in prizes. Two grand-prize winners will receive a $500 Exchange gift card, and eight runners-up will receive a $250 Exchange gift card.

“Ten winners will receive not only great prizes but bragging rights that their pets are the cut est,” Travis Exchange Gener al Manager Phonda Bishop said. “Pets might not go trick-or-treat ing, but they can still win major treats for their families at the Ex change.”

No purchase is necessary to enter or win. Winners will be se lected and notified on or around Nov. 14. To submit photos and to view the official rules, Visit Shop MyExchange.com/Sweepstakes.

Air Force introduces new, foundational Ready Airman Training program

Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The Air Force announced plans to transition foundational train ing for all airmen beginning Oct. 1 ensuring they have the necessary skillsets to survive and operate during contingen cies both at home station and deployed, including remote and contested environments.

Ready Airman Training will prepare airmen to develop and demonstrate the mindset re quired to support the Air Force Force Generation, or AFFOR GEN, deployment model.

“The vision for how air men train and deploy embrac es an emerging culture of sup port maintaining and building readiness across the AFFORGEN phases,” said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. “We must challenge the status quo to prepare our airmen for operating in environments far more complex than we have in the past.”

Aligned with the Oct. 1 implementation of Air Force Force Generation, airmen will begin receiving tailored train ing spread throughout the 18-month Reset, Prepare and Ready phases of the Air Force Force Generation cycle. Unit commanders may adjust the number of training events re quired based on an airman’s

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level of preparedness and the deployment phase they are en tering.

Previous deployment train ing, which at a minimum con sisted of Basic Airman Read iness and Basic Deployment Readiness, was accomplished as just-in-time training, once notified of a deployment, and consisted of approximately 30 hours of training.

A team of 70 experts gath ered in March in San Antonio for a Ready Airman Training Design Sprint where they iden tified 12 focus areas, designated as Ready Training Areas, with specific desired learning ob jectives necessary for airmen to deploy faster while simulta neously increasing overall ex pertise.

Ready Training Areas in clude: Law of War; Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Es cape; Small Arms; Integrat ed Defense; Active Threat Response; Chemical, Biologi cal, Radiological and Nuclear Training; Explosive Ordnance Hazard; Tactical Combat Ca sualty Care All Service Mem bers Course; Comprehensive Airman Fitness; Cross Cultural Communications; Information Environment Awareness; and Basic Communications.

The Ready Training Area associated training events will be spread over the entire Air Force Force Generation cy cle incrementally over the next two years. The total es timated training hours re quired over the course of the

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“Ready Airman Training serves as the continuum of combat learning for all airmen while being adaptable to each individual airman’s experience level and allowing commanders the flexibility to tailor training for specific operating environ ments,” said Maj. Gen. Albert Miller, Air Force Training and Readiness director.

Cross-functional training re quirements and training pack ages for commanders were developed using validation methods that will present an airman prepared to execute missions based on emerging operational timelines. Addition ally, Ready Airman Training increases flexibility for com manders at all levels to tailor training requirements to their airmen.

“This is the model and meth od needed to compete and deter where the adversary’s tactics and techniques have evolved in an effort to match ours,” said Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass. “Ready Airman Training is how we, as an Air Force, continue to out pace our strategic competitors and win the high-end fight.”

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ON THE COVER U.S. airmen from the 60th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron simulate loading patients on a C-17 Globemaster III in preparation for Exercise Golden Bee at Travis Air Force Base, Sept. 22. Senior Airman Karla Parra/U.S. Air Force

21st AS leads first C-17 unit-level exercise in the U.S. Indo-Pacific AOR

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ANDERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Guam — U.S. airmen from the 21st Airlift Squadron stationed at Travis Air Force Base led Exercise Golden Bee, the first C-17 Globemaster III unit-level tactical training exercise in the U.S. Indo-Pacific area of responsibility, Sept. 24-27.

U.S. service members from the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy planned and coordinated an event de signed to test their abilities to execute mission type orders, demonstrate fullspectrum readiness, exercise Agile Com bat Employment concepts, and sustain contingency operations in a high-intensi ty, contested, degraded and operationally limited environment.

“This exercise helps prove our abili ty to conduct operations in a highly con tested environment over long distances to enable freedom of maneuvers for joint partners,” said Lt. Col. William Street, 21st Airlift Squadron commander. “It provides us the opportunity to become more familiar with the geography and other challenges to the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.”

C-17 aircrew participants included personnel from the 21st Airlift Squad ron at Travis, the 3rd Airlift Squadron at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, the 4th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base LewisMcChord, Washington, the 517th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Rich ardson in Alaska, and 535 Airlift Squad ron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

Units provided a wide range of per sonnel to include maintenance and oper ational support, as well as instructor pi lots and loadmasters to help execute the overall scenario.

“C-17 training is often times solely based on simulations,” said Capt. Treavor Arias, 3rd Airlift Squadron C-17 Globe master III pilot. “So, for us to actually come into theater, get a real user, as we call them, whether that be the Army 25th Infantry Division [or 17 Filed Artillery Brigade] with the High Mobility Artillery

Rocket System or the Navy, it was a great opportunity for us to flex and actually get on the same page, work on those commu nication skills and establish what are the actual bare minimums for us to accom plish the mission.”

To mimic real-world scenarios, the crews transported both equipment and personnel with the 25th Infantry Divi sion, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and 17th Field Artillery Brigade, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, where their focus was on small-unit tactics and dynamic force employment within the In do-Pacific area of responsibility on con densed timelines.

“Specifically for this exercise, the Army and the Air Force really worked to gether strengthening our warfighting ca pabilities,” said U.S. Army Capt. Chad Adams, 25 Infantry Division Alpha com pany commander. “We were able to le verage each other to deploy [across the Indo-Pacific region], so it’s amazing to have the Air Force’s support.”

Additional support was also provid ed to the 60th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron stationed at Travis Air Force Base. Participants from the squadron used this opportunity to train in high-in tensity contested areas during strategic

U.S. soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division, Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, disembark a C-17 Globemaster III at Northwest Field, Guam, during Exercise Golden Bee, Sept. 24.

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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. William Street, 21st Airlift Squadron commander, pilots a C-17 Globemaster III pilot, during a simulated refueling event with a KC-46A Pegasus over the Pacific Ocean during Exercise Golden Bee, Sept. 22. Exercise Golden Bee was a joint readiness exercise designed to provide training integration and rehearse strategic and operational objectives in the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility.

kicks off new digital engineering

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE

(AFNS) — Hot off the publication of its Digital Modernization Strategy, the Air Force Test Center kicked off three dig ital-engineering efforts to provide onramps for the Air Force’s evolving dig ital-engineering technology ecosystem.

These programs will evaluate digital test methods for weapon systems to ad dress the desire to decrease overexer tion on physical (ground and flight) test infrastructure, identify root-cause fail ures earlier in the developmental test process, compress schedules for large national test programs, limit open-air testing of highly sensitive programs, and correlate to acquisition digital engi neering models.

“I believe the AFTC is uniquely pos tured to create data-driven models to aid decision-making before a program

bends metal,” said Thomas Fetterhoff, Air Force Test Center technical advis er for aerodynamics, propulsion and ground test and evaluation. “With mod eling and simulation, we can assess and manage the uncertainties of system performance. This allows the program manager to buy down risks in a quanti fied way.”

The Air Force Test Center has part nered with Ansys to connect system design and performance through authori tative source data.

“Commercial engineering simu lation is proven to significantly re duce cost, schedule, and risk in DoD programs,” said Kevin Flood, Ansys vice president of digital mission en gineering. “Ansys is proud to part ner with AFTC to help field capability at the operational tempo the warfight er requires. Our Ansys Government

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Digital transformation leverages information technology and data to drive more efficient collaboration and weapons system development to bring capabilities to the warfighter faster and smarter. Faster development and deployment of technologies help the warfighter maintain a technological advantage over U.S. adversaries.

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The first digital engineering effort will see the Arnold Engineering Development Complex partner with Ansys to synthe size multifidelity data sources together with digital models to aid in early design processes. These models, along with un certainty quantification techniques, will provide programs with performance pre dictions, an assessment of the veracity of

those predictions, and a plan to improve those predictions though additional test ing and modeling efforts.

John Grigaliunas, Air Force Test Cen ter technical advisor said, “AFTC is also looking to exploit the power of modeling and simulation to overcome geographic and environmental shackles to help shape current and future capabilities.”

The second digital engineering ef fort will help determine how simulation can augment physical testing in the de livery of models, as an output of develop mental test. In this effort, the 412th Test Wing will provide simulation capabilities and develop workflows to perform virtu al testing of Infrared Search and Track

systems which present unique challeng es in flight test.

“Using advanced M and S extends performance predictions for these sys tems that are otherwise flight test prohibitive while providing orders of magnitude more information to the warfighter,” said Ronald Hardgrove, 775th Test Squadron electro-optics/infrared flight chief/techni cal adviser.

Then, a team led by Kevin Sura, the 96th Operations Group technical adviser, will spearhead a modeling effort aimed at improving test point density, re-fly rates and rapid analysis to support efficient ac quisition planning earlier in a program’s lifecycle.

Sura said, “Dynamic and interactive test planning and post-flight analysis in a flexible ad-hoc modeling environment will go a long way in aiding the T and E community in providing data faster, and with more insight, Sura said.”

By applying internally developed and commercially available physics-based simulation technology to these three proj ects which showcase applicability across disparate technologies, the Air Force Test Center develops open connectivity and portability to T and E specific digital en vironments and supports requirements across the weapon system lifecycle.

CDC expands criteria for Pre-Exposure

Prophylaxis use of vaccine for monkeypox

Air Force Surgeon General Public Affairs

FALLS CHURCH, Va. —

The Centers for Disease Con trol and Prevention updated its website Sept. 28 with expanded criteria for pre-exposure pro phylaxis use of vaccine for mon keypox.

Components of the U.S. Na tional Monkeypox Vaccination Strategy used in the U.S. mon keypox outbreak, vaccination before exposure to monkeypox:

n People in certain occu pational exposure risk groups. People at risk for occupation al exposure to orthopoxvirus es include research laboratory

personnel working with ortho poxviruses, clinical laboratory personnel performing diagnos tic testing for orthopoxviruses, and orthopoxvirus and health care worker response teams designated by appropriate pub lic health and antiterror author ities. (See ACIP recommenda tions at https://www.cdc.gov/ vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vaccspecific/smallpox.html.)

n Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, transgender or nonbinary peo ple who in the past six months have had a new diagnosis of one or more nationally reportable sexually transmitted diseas es (i.e., acute HIV, chancroid,

chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphi lis); more than one sex partner.

n People who have had any of the following in the past six months: Sex at a commercial sex venue, sex in association with a large public event in a geographic area where mon keypox transmission is occur ring; sexual partners of peo ple with the above risks; people who anticipate experiencing the above risks.

For more information about this update, visit https://www. cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/ interim-considerations/over view.html.

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Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.

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WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force has updated a policy to allow women, both enlisted and civil ian, to apply and compete for an Officer Training School commis sion while pregnant.

Under the new guidance re flected in Department of the Air Force Manual 36-2032, Military Recruiting and Accessions, preg nant airmen, guardians and civil ians can now apply for OTS com missioning and, if selected, will attend training between six to 14 and a half months after com pletion of the pregnancy.

Enlisted selectees who do not pass the physical fitness test or civilian selectees who are un able to obtain a qualifying phys ical within the above post-pregnancy timelines may lose their selection status. Selectees who desire to attend OTS prior to six months postpartum may request a waiver.

“We’re in a race for talent,

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and our policies need to reflect that,” said Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones, who directed a gender policy review after learning about the previous policy and other obsta cles service women face with in the Department. “This policy change will ensure we’re able to fully tap into the talent amongst our force as well as those looking to join us.”

Prior to the change, Depart ment of the Air Force policy re quired OTS applicants to be worldwide qualified at the time of application, preventing women from applying during preg nancy through the 12-month postpartum period.

The policy change is welcome news to those in the recruiting community who face challenges meeting annual recruiting goals in the post-pandemic environ ment where the labor market is low and interest in joining the military is declining.

“I’ve taken several calls from active-duty airmen who could not apply due to the previous

policy so this is definitely a step in the right direction,” said Lt. Col. Scott Black, Air Force Re cruiting Service chief of officer accessions. “From a recruiting standpoint, it’s also important that we are able to access the full pool of qualified candidates for commissioning to ensure we have the talent we need to meet

our national security objectives.”

Applying for an OTS commis sion was particularly challenging for enlisted airmen who strug gled to align family planning with OTS boards and timeline re quirements such as overseas re turn dates and time on station, according to Capt. Frances Cas tillo, who was part of the effort to

revise the policy as a member of the Department of the Air Force Women’s Initiative Team.

“This policy update will at tract female talent to the officer ranks. It unequivocally shatters the glass ceiling that has kept or delayed hundreds of women from competing for a DAF com mission,” Castillo said.

Air Force recognizes Energy Action Month

Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

The Department of the Air Force, in recognition of Energy Action Month, is showcasing en ergy’s essential role in assuring combat capability and readiness and the importance of develop ing energy solutions that bolster resilience in the face of climate change.

This year, the Department of the Air Force launched a new three-year theme, “Powering Possibility,” which highlights the Department’s forward-looking approach to energy innovation and powering the future force.

Complex challenges includ ing a competitive operating

environment, accelerating cli mate change, adversarial cyber threats, and a changing geopoliti cal landscape all threaten critical Department of the Air Force in frastructure, energy and power supplies. As such, the Air Force must be proactive in exploring the possible to find safe, reliable and efficient energy solutions that bolster our ability to fight and win in a changing world.

“The crucial role energy plays in Air Force and Space Force global operations cannot be overstated. Our weapon sys tems and installations depend on secure and reliable power to complete the mission, and with out it we simply cannot fight

effectively,” said Edwin Oshiba, acting assistant secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installa tions and Environment. “We’re working across the Department to safeguard our energy supply chains, incorporate energy effi cient technologies, and bolster installation resilience to increase our combat effectiveness in the face of climate impacts.”

Operational energy, or avia tion fuel, comprises the majority of Air Force energy usage, pro viding a tremendous opportuni ty to optimize energy consump tion and model how the military can improve its warfighting ca pabilities, while meeting aggres sive climate goals. The Air Force

is enhancing aviation fuel effi ciency through improved aircraft drag reduction and engine sustainment technologies, ag ile software, process improvements, and advanced propul sion. Through joint wargaming efforts, the Air Force is identi fying and mitigating operational risk to logistics and energy sup ply chains to ensure a ready and lethal force.

Installations across the coun try are exploring innovative energy initiatives including microgrids, electric vehicle in frastructure, solar arrays and a micro-reactor pilot to enhance installation resilience and re duce greenhouse gas emissions.

Additionally, the Air Force is un dergoing extensive planning efforts like Installation Energy and Climate Resilience Plans to ad vance mission critical energy and water systems and is con ducting Energy Resilience Read iness Exercises to help installa tions assess mission readiness during a controlled loss of power.

The Air Force is developing a comprehensive Climate Action Plan aligned with national se curity imperatives that lays out the Air Force’s climate priorities and actionable goals to address the complex threat of climate change, including objectives re lated to energy efficiency, which should be released soon.

USAF rolls out plan addressing climate change

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WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force on Tuesday released its Climate Ac tion Plan, which defines how it will preserve operational capability, increase resiliency and do its part to help mitigate future climate im pacts through specific and measur able objectives and key results.

It lays out its enterprise-wide approach to ensuring policies, technology innovation and evolv ing operations remain relevant in a changing climate.

“Make no mistake – the depart ment’s mission remains to fly, fight, and win, anytime and anywhere. We are focused on modernization and improving our operational pos ture relative to our pacing chal lenge: China. We remain ready to

respond and achieve air and space dominance when and where the nation needs us,” said Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall. “Our mission remains unchanged, but we recognize that the world is fac ing ongoing and accelerating cli mate change and we must be pre pared to respond, fight, and win in this constantly changing world.”

The plan outlines three ma jor priorities that ensure the Department of the Air Force main tains the ability to operate under a changing climate, preserves oper ational capability, protects its sys tems, and contributes toward en hancing climate change mitigation.

1. Maintain air and space dom inance in the face of climate risks: Invest in climate-ready and resil ient infrastructure and facilities so our installations are better able to project air and space combat

power.

2. Make climate informed deci sions: Develop a climate-informed workforce, integrate security im plications of climate change into Department strategy, planning, training, and operations, and incor porate climate considerations into Department requirements, acqui sition, logistics, supply chain pro cesses, and wargaming.

3. Optimize energy use and pur sue alternative energy sources: Ex pand operational capability and power projection to support op erations globally while simulta neously reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adopting cost-com petitive alternative energy sources.

The department will provide up dates as necessary to address new policies, technology innovation and evolving missions that answer emerging climate concerns.

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and tactical airlift operations.

While on board the C-17A air craft, 25 Infantry Division sol diers participated in emergency aeromedical evacuation rehears als providing aeromedical evac uation airmen additional train ing. Furthermore, airmen from the Travis Air Force Base Fire Department and Logistics Read iness Squadron augmented An dersen’s capabilities to support exercise, and train Pacific Air Forces personnel on mobili ty platforms.

Meanwhile, aircrew were challenged to think critical ly, react and engage problems presented by simulated peer adversaries. This provided C-17 crewmembers the opportunity to rehearse tactics, techniques and procedures in a decentralized operational envi ronment. This type of exercise presents Air Force mobility per sonnel with the opportunities to enable joint force employment.

The need to advance full spectrum readiness in the

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Terry Durbin refills an oxygen bottle during Exercise Golden Bee, Sept. 28.

Mobility Command command er, met with Pacific Air Forces and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command leadership earlier this June to discuss a roadmap to prepare mobility Air Forces for agile combat employment in the IndoPacific Theater.

“We are grateful for such a strong partnership with our joint partners from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps,” Street said. “Their participation demon strates our common focus on the principles of joint warfighting and the synergistic effects we can create when working togeth er as one joint team.”

Air Force Lt. Col. William Street, right, and Capt. Alex Reynolds operate a C-17 during a simulated refueling event with a KC-46A Pegasus over the Pacific Ocean during Exercise Golden Bee Sept. 22.

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The Russian army’s seizure of the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe isn’t just exposing Ukrainians to the risk of an atomic accident but may also undermine plans to install new miniature reactors in far-flung places.

Months of shelling and rocket attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Pow er Plant are revealing vulnerabilities that power utilities haven’t historically been

forced to consider. Engineers typical ly design reactors to withstand storms, earthquakes or plane crashes but until now haven’t factored war into their cal culations.

“No nuclear power plant in the world has been designed to operate under war time conditions,” said Mycle Schneider, the lead author of the World Nuclear In dustry Status Report published Wednes day. “Nuclear power plants are immediately vulnerable.”

International Atomic Energy Agen cy monitors have reported dozens of at tacks at Zaporizhzhia, where strikes sporadically cut power and water supplies, forcing a plant that would normally gen erate a fifth of Ukraine’s electricity into shutdown. The station’s resilience is be ing closely monitored by a nuclear indus try that’s working on a new generation of small-modular reactors, or SMRs, to re place the world’s aging fleet of tradition al plants.

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The 2022 edition of the sta tus report dedicates a chapter to the new threats exposed by Rus sia’s war on Ukraine. The annual publication is written by top nu clear researchers from around the world and prepared with funding by the the U.S. MacArthur Foundation and Germany’s Heinrich Boell Stiftung.

“The higher the nuclear share, the more difficult to shut down all reactors as a pre cautionary measure in case of war,” reads the 385-page re port. “Physics do not change un der wartime conditions. If a core meltdown is triggered by the im pact of weapons on the reactor building, more radioactivity is likely to escape because a dam aged reactor enclosure cannot fulfill its intended containment purpose.”

Regulators attending last

month’s IAEA general confer ence similarly warned that nuclear vendors need to reconsider safety engineering if plants are expected to withstand the threat of war.

“Even if structures are ex tremely well designed, you cannot expect them to withstand a military-style attack,” said Ay bars Gurpinar, a former IAEA director of nuclear safety. “They are not designed for this.”

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“Because SMRs have been and will be, like large reactors, subject to delays and cost over runs, there is no identifiable sce nario under which they could be come economical under these circumstances,” said Schnei der. He predicts nuclear pow er will continue to grow among Asian nations while slowly losing ground to solar and wind energy in Europe and the U.S..

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Heidi Levine/Washington Post Ukrainian forces on a tank pass a pontoon bridge over the Oskil River in the Kharkiv