NHA JO President Update Hello, NHA Warriors!
By LT Casey "Screech" Kelity, USN
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hank you to everyone who made the 2021 NHA Symposium such a huge success. It truly was an awesome event, and we all worked through so much adversity to make it happen. The event would not have been possible without countless hours of hard work from the NHA staff, active-duty volunteers, and industry participants. At Symposium, we welcomed a new NHA Chairman, RADM Fillion, USN (Ret.) who worked as the Director of Warfare Integration for the Chief of Naval Operations and brings a wealth of experience to NHA. RADM Fillion served for 36 years in the world’s greatest navy, and we could not have a better leader at the helm to continue the impressive success of the NHA organization. RADM Fillion introduced the keynote speaker to kick off Symposium—Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral (ADM) Lescher. ADM Lescher gave an impressive speech with several big takeaways—seek world-class performance, drive culture change, and, most importantly, learn. He emphasized that we must find world-class performers and learn from their processes. The Navy has worked with major airlines to determine how we can improve our maintenance practices to deliver fully missioncapable aircraft to the fight. Drive culture change to embrace the red. We must be truthful in reporting in order to improve. Finally, the Navy must learn when we fall short of the goals we’ve set for ourselves. We illuminate root cause barriers when goals are not met. By doing so, we will see fundamental process improvement and bring world-class performance to the Navy. ADM Lescher opened Symposium in an inspiring way with a common theme in mind—Force of the Future. We are seeing unprecedented peer threats demanding a dynamic and adaptive Navy unlike ever before. The Force of the Future theme addresses this challenge head-on. Readers will see firsthand how the Navy has improved capabilities across the Naval Aviation Enterprise. Symposium 2021 was a resounding success; thank you to all those who made it possible. I hope you all enjoy this edition of Rotor Review. Fly Navy! Screech
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