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Army & Air Force Exchange Service shoppers can glam up their beauty routines with in-store makeovers and demonstrations at the Exchange’s Return to Beauty event.
The Travis BX will host the event at 11:00 to 14:00 on May 6, giving military shoppers a chance to sign up with their favorite brands for a free makeover; participate in giveaways; and learn more about beauty, fragrance and skincare offerings.
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BASE, Fl. — On Jan. 28, 2022, Gen. Mike Minihan, commander for Air Mobility Command, posted a tweet with four simple words: Warrior Heart. No Stigma., along with a screen shot of a mental health appointment on his calendar. From that moment on, Warrior Heart became the mantra for a culture focused on fine tuning the mind, body, and craft to fortify the will to win.
That was the focus during the opening days of Spring Phoenix Rally held at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, April 17-21, 2023. More than 250 Total Force Mobility leaders and spouses spent two days discussing ideas and ongoing efforts that bring the mind into balance with body and craft.
“Warrior Heart is not a program, but rather, about our climate and our culture,” said Minihan. “So when I say mind, body, craft, I mean elevating the mind to the same level as body and craft.”
Minihan continued with his three objectives to helping airmen put their mental health on equal footing with physical fitness and honing their craft: eliminate stigma, lower barriers and increase access and options.
Col. Derek Salmi, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander, led the discussion that looked at warrior culture from a variety of different lenses including
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Salmi highlighted CAPT (ret) Charlie Plumb, a Vietnam War prisoner of war who spent 2,337 days in the Hanoi Hil ton after being shot down on his 75th mission. According to Plumb, post-conflict surveys showed signs of post-traumat ic stress in about a third of Viet nam veterans, while PTS among former POWs was only between four and eight percent, dramat ically lower despite everything they endured.
“Captain Plumb attributed that to one thing,” said Salmi. “The leadership that was in the Hanoi Hilton and the fact that they set the conditions, set the focus and embodied what Warrior Heart is. Leadership matters.”
Coach Scott Davenport, head coach of the Bellarmine men’s basketball team, discussed his approach to building a winning culture, which include pressure on and off the court.
“We have a saying in our program that preparation is going to lead to confidence,” said Davenport. “But at the end of the day, when they leave that huddle, who do they have? Each other. They don’t have us, they have each other.”
You need a plan academically, athletically and socially to build a winning culture, he continued. It is about being a part of
something bigger than you and wanting it for others.
He also urged everyone to never delay gratitude. “It takes 1.8 seconds to say ‘thank you,” said Davenport.
Following Davenport’s speech, several wing commanders highlighted initiatives at their bases including Operational Support Teams at Little Rock AFB that’s focused on embedded support and care within at risk squadrons; the White Rope program at Dover AFB, which is a continuation of a support program typically seen at basic military training and technical schools; Vance AFB’s Comprehensive Readiness for Aircrew Flying
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Training (CRAFT) facility, a human performance lab that includes cognitive and nutrition specialists among other things; and Travis AFB’s Mind Gym and Comprehensive Airmen Fitness Madness Challenge, which funds quality of life upgrades in the dorms, work facilities and fitness areas.
It was a small sampling of ongoing initiatives across the Mobility Air Force, but the roundtable allowed for crosstalk and information sharing in order to fuel mind, body and craft together.
AMC’s Command Chaplain Mike Newton focused on the Will, which he defined as the
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ON THE COVER Airmen assigned to the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight cross over a low depression filled with water on a firing range at Camp Navajo, Ariz., April 10. The airmen participated in exercise Furious Alpaca; an exercise with the objective of operating in degraded environments alongside foreign forces against a near peer threat. Staff Sgt. Noah D. Coger/U.S. Air Force
The bomber’s pilot, 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson, a former hotel clerk from Wichita, Kan., approached the target at an altitude of about 8,000 feet. His B-24 carried eight bombs, an array of heavy machine guns, and 10 other men.
Tennyson was 24. He’d been married for 10 months. His wife, Jean, his high school sweetheart, was seven months pregnant back in the states.
Painted on the nose of his plane was a racy image of a woman with angels wings, and the nickname “Heaven Can Wait.”
As the aircraft approached the Japanese target at Awar Point on the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, it was hit by antiaircraft fire. The tail broke off, and the plane plunged into nearby Hansa Bay.
Three figures were seen jumping out as it went down. The wreckage burned on the surface and sank in about 200 feet of water, leaving behind a large oil slick. There were no survivors.
Earlier this month, a team of elite Navy divers and archaeologists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) ended a five-week, deep-water search of Hansa Bay for the bones of Heaven Can Wait’s crew.
The project unfolded about 10 miles from an active, 6,000-foot volcano in one part of World War II’s vast Pacific Ocean graveyard. It was the deepest underwater recovery mission for the DPAA, the government agency that seeks to account for service members missing in action from past wars.
And it was the first time the Navy’s socalled SAT FADS – Saturation Fly-Away Diving System – had been used in such a role, the Navy said.
The DPAA said “osseous” material that could be bone had been found, as well as “material evidence that could be used to support any potential identifications,” and two aircraft machine gun barrels.
The agency said the osseous material was being treated with the reverence and ceremony due human remains, but verification would need to take place in the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl
The wreckage of the plane had been discovered in 2017 during an underwater survey by Project Recover, a nonprofit partnership that uses technology to hunt for the missing, mainly from World War II.
Project Recover located the bomber using data from a detailed, four-year investigation by relatives of one member of the crew, 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr., the plane’s bombardier.
In early March, a vessel carrying the diving system, divers from the Navy Experimental Diving Unit, and experts from the DPAA arrived in Hansa Bay, the DPAA said.
The diving apparatus, somewhat like a space station, included a pressurized habitat where the divers lived aboard the ship, and a pressurized diving bell, which they used to reach the bottom.
The system allowed them to work in the pressure of deep water for long periods
without having to decompress after each dive, the Navy said. They only needed to decompress at the end of the project.
Once on the bottom, the divers exited the diving bell and vacuumed material from the crash site into big baskets that were hauled up to the ship to be sifted for artifacts.
“Remains do survive . . . even after 80 years of being on the sea floor,” said Katrina L. Bunyard, a DPAA underwater archaeologist and historian.
Andrew Pietruszka, Project Recover’s lead archaeologist, said, “Fish and other animals and microorganisms, they’ll eat all the soft tissue” but leave the bones. “That’s why we get, typically, decent preservation.”
Tennyson’s grandson, Scott Jefferson, 52, of Queenstown, New Zealand, said he thought the plane’s loss “was a mystery that would never be solved. . . . I’m just overwhelmingly grateful to everybody
that made this happen.”
“Throughout my childhood, I just visualized they must have gone down in the middle of the ocean, in the middle of nowhere . . . and that was that,” he said in a telephone interview.
“My grandma, even when she was more than 90 years old . . . it was a really hard subject for her,” he said. “She never remarried and . . . never gave up hope that he was coming home.”
The wreckage of the plane was found scattered across the bottom of the remote bay off the Bismarck Sea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
The experts had pinpointed the front section, where Tennyson; co-pilot Michael J. McFadden Jr., 26, of Clay Center, Kan.; and several other members of the crew were stationed.
A cockpit seat used by either Tennyson or McFadden had been located, according to the images from Project Recover and a sketch of the site drawn by DPAA forensic archaeologist Meghan Mumford.
The seat where radio operator Eugene J. Darrigan, 26, of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., sat was spotted earlier by Project Recover’s underwater cameras.
Darrigan had been a color mixer in a textile factory. His wife, Florence, 23, and 8-month-old son, Thomas, were back home in New York. He had seen Thomas once, when the baby was baptized.
The remains of navigator Donald W. Sheppick, 26, should “be found between the bombardier’s enclosure and the pilot/ co-pilot’s seat,” Project Recover wrote in a 2018 report.
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Sheppick was from Roscoe, Pa., a small town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh. He had previously worked as a bank teller, according to Census records, and for Carnegie Illinois
Steel, in nearby Homestead.
His wife, Mary, was pregnant with their son and living with Sheppick’s parents.
The nickname, Heaven Can Wait, probably came from a 1943 movie of the same name, starring the actor Don Ameche.
He had sponsored a different B-24, dubbed “Heaven Can Wait
Don Ameche.” That plane was lost on May 4, 1944, elsewhere in the Pacific, according the Pacific Wrecks website.
Before any archaeology could start, the project had to make sure no bombs were with the wreckage. Last fall, divers went down to search.
Mumford, who was on the expedition, said the safety of the team is a priority. “As they’re excavating, there’s the possibility of unexploded ordnance being detonated,” she said.
No bombs were found, she
said.
“I get goose bumps thinking about this,” said Jim Emmer, 75, of Victoria, Minn., a nephew of Army Staff Sgt. John W. Emmer Jr., who was a photographer and gunner on the plane.
John Emmer was 26 and had worked in the family lumber business in Minneapolis. Everyone called him “Johnny.” He had a girlfriend named Mary.
His mother worried about him being in the Army Air Corps. Three weeks before his death he wrote her, “God has looked out
for me for two years now, and I guess he knows best.”
Jim Emmer said, “I just wish this was done when my father was alive. He was a very close brother to my uncle. So many people that have passed, this was a major event in their life growing up.”
He said John’s father was despondent after learning of his son’s death and was never the same.
“My grandfather just
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completely changed,” he said in a recent telephone interview. “He used to be a happy go-lucky, very personable man. He turned into pretty much a recluse.”
The United States entered World War II after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. By March 1944, the United States and its allies had begun to push back the Japanese advances in the Pacific.
The island of New Guinea, just north of Australia, was then part of the front lines, which sprawled thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean. Part of the island was in Japanese hands, and part was in allied hands.
On March 11, American B-24s based at Nadzab, in the southeastern section of the island, were sent to attack a big Japanese base at Boram, about 300 miles northwest.
On the return trip, Tennyson’s plane and two others flew to attack a secondary target - enemy antiaircraft guns at Awar Point on Hansa Bay, according to research by Scott Althaus and other members of the Kelly family.
As the planes approached Awar Point, Heaven Can Wait was hit.
“Flames started to pour from the front bomb bay,” eyewitness Staff Sgt. Arnold S. Smith, a waist
gunner on a nearby B-24 reported. “In 2 or 3 seconds flames enveloped the plane from the first bomb bay to the tail.”
“Three men then jumped or fell out of the rear of the plane,” he reported. “The first man wore no chute and spread eagled straight down into the water. . . . I saw a white streamer as if from a chute coming from the second man but I did not see whether it opened.”
“The third man was wearing a chute but I did not see it open,” Smith recalled. “The tail assembly broke off and fell into the ocean. The plane banked left and drove in a slip into the water a quarter mile off the point.”
Other bombers circled near the crash site looking for survivors. “I could see no evidence that bodies remained at the surface,” Smith reported.
The 11 were classified as killed in action. After the war and an investigation by the American Graves Registration Service, their bodies were declared unrecoverable. Jean Tennyson got back her husband’s belongings and a government check for $84.19.
The modern quest for Heaven Can Wait began a decade ago when members of Kelly’s family, led by Althaus, a first cousin once removed and a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, began digging
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Emphasizing that space capabilities are “important to our strategy of integrated deterrence” and the reason U.S. Space Force must drive “transformational” change, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall offered a blunt assessment April 19 of the challenges today in space but also optimism that the United States would maintain its dominance in that domain.
In a keynote address to the 2023 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he noted the critical role space plays today in every aspect of national security and that maintaining a functional, assured presence is essential, especially given China’s activity in space.
Unlike the recent past when the United States had virtually free reign in space, today the domain is crowded and dangerous, home to thousands of satellites operated by dozens of nations, widespread space debris, and most importantly, several aggressive and capable space-faring nations who consider space a warfighting domain.
Foremost among them, Kendall said, is China.
“Among China’s military priorities, space ranks very high,” Kendall said, emphasizing a theme he has been voicing frequently since becoming Secretary. “China views space as a military operational domain and is developing and fielding forces intended to dominate in that domain.”
“Second, China does not seem to be constrained by concerns about debris generation or strategic stability. This is the environment in which the Space Force must deter and prevail,” he said.
Countering these developments is why the Space Force was created, and why it must be
nimble and focused, Kendall suggested.
China’s advances “are particularly worrisome in light of the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of transparency regarding military space doctrine, its failure to adhere to or advance global norms, its reluctance to allow open communication between military leaders, and the corresponding risk of miscalculation,” he said.
Kendall spent most of the balance of his remarks outlining in detail the budgetary and programmatic response managed by the Space Force to confront the new reality in space and ensure capabilities such as GPS, communications and missile warning remain failsafe and reliable in a more hostile and contested domain.
“The United States and its allies and partners have some significant military advantages. One of those is experience,” he said, adding: “I believe that deterrence can succeed. Our strategy of integrated deterrence is built on that premise and on the strengths of our partnerships with like-minded nations that share our values.”
The Space Force’s budget request for fiscal year 2024, which begins Oct. 1, is 15% more than the budget it has this year. (The current budget is 30% greater than the year before.)
But benefits from that increase are diminished, Kendall said, if Congress fails to pass the budget on time.
“My deepest fear today isn’t China; it is the loss of the only unrecoverable asset – time – and what that could imply,” he said. “I’m afraid that we face an unpredictable political situation in the U.S. in which a yearlong continuing resolution is a real possibility. I don’t know anyone on Capitol Hill who wants to see a yearlong CR, but I also don’t know anyone on Capitol Hill who has defined a likely route to avoid[ing] one.”
A CR has become a common device that prevents the government from shutting down while lawmakers work out differences on a new spending plan. A CR simply extends most, if not all, the rules for how money is spent from the previous - and expiring –budget year to the next with insufficient allowance for how conditions or circumstances change.
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Kendall and other senior leaders worry, however, because a CR would prohibit new programs from starting while continuing to fund programs that are past their prime or those delivering capability that is no longer relevant.
In response, Kendall pointed to a legislative proposal endorsed by the Department of Defense and the White House that, if approved by Congress, would give Kendall and the other service secretaries new – the limited –power to divert already appropriated funds to new technologies.
That ability is now prohibited under rules governing the way money can be spent when the government is funded by a temporary, stop-gap mechanism known as a “continuing resolution.”
Restricting how money is spent costs valuable time, Kendall said, and keeps promising technologies from being developed and deployed at the fastest rate possible.
That is a problem given China’s focus on space. Since China declared space a “warfighting domain” in 2015, Kendall said, “its on-orbit presence has grown by well over 300% with more than 700 satellites now in orbit.”
It “has developed and tested
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Over four years, Kelly’s relatives gathered a trove of data, and Althaus compiled a detailed report on the fate of the bomber and its crew. The family also located relatives of the other 10 men on board, said Sandy Althaus, 82, of Georgetown, Tex., Kelly’s cousin and Scott’s mother.
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Althaus sent the organization his report on July 31, 2017, and the following October, Project Recover found the plane.
Lt. Kelly was 21 when he was killed. He was from Livermore, Calif., about 40 miles southeast of San Francisco. He was gregarious and popular, and was known as “Toby.” He had a sister named Betty.
He was raised in a ranching family, had his own horse and wanted to be a cowboy when he grew up, Scott Althaus wrote in his report. In the service, he kept up a correspondence with 38 people back home.
The family still has dozens of his letters.
“I’ve heard the concept of generational grief,” said Kathy Borst, 69, one of Kelly’s nieces, who never knew him. “And I believe I experienced it. It was extremely powerful.”
“I can’t explain it,” she said.
But if Kelly’s remains came home, the idea “that my grandmother, my grandfather, my mother and my uncle I never knew were in the same plot in Livermore has great meaning to me.”
She said in one of the last letters home, Kelly wrote: “I don’t want you to feel sorry for me. I’m just telling you to appreciate what you have. Even if you don’t think it is much. It is so much. The men fighting here for everyone, they’re doing it for your freedom.”
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anti-satellite weapons” and “developed ground-based laser weapons and jammers to disrupt, degrade, and damage satellite sensors, communication, and navigation systems,” he said.
“We are all united in our goal of providing Air and Space forces that can deter and, if needed, prevail against any opponent,
anytime, anywhere, including when we project power with our partners wherever it is needed, on or around the planet,” Kendall said.
“We are seeing success in these efforts. The Space Force is in the midst of a transformation.”
All of the focus and activity, Kendall said, reflects the central role space plays today in national security and critical functions of everyday life that includes banking, commerce, and communication.
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choice to act, having a clear purpose behind the action, and the beliefs, principles and values guiding you.
Essentially, it is about the ability to lead and control one’s life, said Newton. “And those components need to be active whenever an airman needs to access them. Sometimes by making it too easy or soft, we take away the options they need to execute.”
He emphasized the need for putting airmen into “a productive struggle and a growth zone” by starting with a challenging standard or objective, a sense of motivation, sources of support, and accountability that, over time, yields a belief that success is the result of effort more than raw talent.
“We are in the profession of arms, the maintenance of violence,” said Newton. “And I think
one of the biggest challenges we’re going to have as leaders is creating the culture and the ethos of the calling and the necessity of that…airmen are the Magic.”
Lt Col (ret.) Jeff Ulmer, a former KC-10 pilot and instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, built on Newton’s remarks by using poetry from past conflicts to bring into sharp focus the reality of war including despair, suffering, betrayal, moral ambiguity and horrible death.
“However, when the leaders I’ve served with are able to give you the truth, to show you what it is and they still ask you to do it, then it’s probably worth fighting for,” said Ulmer. “And if you’re still willing to do it, then you’re probably the right person for the job.”
Capt. Jane Marlow, Phoenix Torch fellow, closed the discussion by presenting her crossfunctional team’s leadership approach to building Warrior Airmen.
“Our leaders, systems and policies are not prepared to effectively leverage our most critical combat asset – our airmen,” Marlow posited.
Through a detailed review of Air Force Instructions, Marlow’s cross-functional team identified policies that don’t match current research and modern standards for care that is harming airmen’s careers when they do what they’ve been urged – ask for help.
Her approach includes three lines of effort: Pathways to Care, Regulatory and Policy Updates and Building and Strengthening Command Teams.
Pathways to Care focuses on education informing airmen and supervisors about first-tier care options, such as Military One Source, Military and Family Life Counseling, peer counseling and group therapy that’ll take burden off strained mental health clinics.
Regulatory and Policy updates focuses on outdated policies and
antiquated waiting periods that do not match current medical guidance. In some cases, these policies are preventing airmen from returning to duty despite medical professionals certifying them mentally fit.
“These waiting periods are very unique to mental health and are not based in robust science or data, they’re based in the ways we’ve always done it,” said Marlow. “This is an example of a myriad of regulations and policies that are woefully out of date, that are limiting our ability to field Warrior Airmen and forcing our command teams, mental health providers and flight surgeons to expend incredible amounts of energy fighting a system and a policy rather than fighting our adversary.”
Building and Strengthening Command Teams recognizes the importance of being led by the best. This requires commanders to know who they are and how they lead, and providing
leaders with regular access to mental health care during an extremely stressful period, also allowing them experiential knowledge of what their airmen may go through and setting the example.
AMC has contracted experts in mindfulness, self-care and resiliency who will focus on wingand squadron-level support. These experts will soon work with wing command teams to develop presentations, workshops and exercises that’ll help airmen “lead and win at life.”
Minihan closed the discussion by emphasizing what matters most when it comes to culture change and support for airmen.
“At the end of the day, no matter what program we roll out, no matter how eloquent the rejoin is, how much money we spend, it’ll never, ever, ever substitute for supervision and command when it comes to what our airmen need.”
