{"id":115312,"date":"2024-02-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=115312"},"modified":"2024-02-13T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T23:33:09","slug":"allvin-this-is-our-time-of-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=115312","title":{"rendered":"Allvin: ‘This is our time of consequence’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AURORA, CO. (AFNS) — \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only hours after Air Force leaders announced sweeping changes to \u201creoptimize\u201d the service, one of the plan\u2019s architects, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin<\/strong><\/a>, told a large and influential audience Feb. 13 that the effort kicks off in a \u201ctime of consequence\u201d in Air Force history.<\/p>\n

Allvin\u2019s keynote remarks at the AFA Warfare Symposium put the ambitious reoptimization in historical terms, linking it in significance to the consequential eras preceding well known shifts in Air Force history such as Doolittle\u2019s raid on Japan, the Berlin Airlift, and more historic events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the dawn of airpower, our proud heritage in history has been intertwined with key events in combat that have shaped \u2026 a nation and in some cases, the world. Those are seminal events,\u201d Allvin told a crowd of several thousand Airmen, Guardians, industry and elected officials, and retired personnel.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut to me, what is more important are the times that preceded them. These are times of consequence. These are times when Airmen and air pioneers embodied what is running in our DNA \u2013 the spirit of innovation, vision, and courage. The actions of those Airmen in that time of consequence shaped those seminal events,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Plans for reoptimizing the Air Force that Allvin announced Feb. 12 alongside Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall<\/strong><\/a>, Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Kristyn Jones<\/strong><\/a>, and Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman<\/strong><\/a> are designed to update the way the service acts, trains, and is equipped to make sure its hard-won superiority remains and that it is postured to deter all adversaries, and if necessary, prevail in conflict in an era of great power competition.<\/p>\n

At every point, Allvin said, novel airpower thinkers drove ideas, such as planes taking off from ships and assembling a convoy of aircraft large enough to supply an entire city for a year, into reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cVisionaries like these, ahead of time, took what would have been seen as a foolhardy plan and made it something that seemed worth trying. And because it was worth trying, they did it and it succeeded,\u201d he said, drawing a straight line from that history to the dramatic change the Air Force is embarking on now.<\/p>\n

Allvin recounted one seminal change that involved him \u2013 the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was stationed in Germany as a wide-eyed lieutenant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an amazing time in history, and I will never forget that for as long as I live,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fall of the Berlin Wall was a seminal event. \u2026 Did air power contribute to it? You\u2019re damn right it did. There was relentless readiness; a demonstration that, yes, in the backdrop of the Cold War the strategic deterrence that underpinned it, our Airmen were ready to meet the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sketching the well-known history Allvin also noted that, in real time, these historic events are not seen as such. But the quality and determination, the focus and especially performance of Air Force personnel, particularly Airmen, he said, are \u201ccrucial to success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s our next seminal event? I don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I do know that right now we are in a time of consequence. What we do now matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

In relaying the Air Force\u2019s key moments in history, Allvin said focus and dedication to everyday jobs is critical. Doing that and being ready and agile, he said, ensures \u201cthat we will continue to reinvent ourselves into the future to be the most dominant Air Force in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doolittle\u2019s raid on Japan in 1942 was audacious and historic.<\/p>\n

But it was the air power theorists and the aviation innovators, living and working in a time of consequence prior to Doolittle\u2019s Raid, that shaped the seminal event, Allvin said.<\/p>\n

The Air Force of today must apply that same strategy and mindset to be successful. The Total Force, he said, must be comfortable theorizing, working hard, pushing boundaries, and testing new ideas.<\/p>\n

Despite uncertainty and challenges, Allvin suggested that this history means those uncertainties and challenges will be met yet again, that the Air Force has the talent, drive, and culture to adapt, find the necessary solutions and put them to effective use.<\/p>\n

Allvin closed with a clear, unambiguous call to action to the Total Force and to those who lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our time of consequence. What we do, the decisions we make, the actions we take, the Airmen we lead, and the way we do it, will define that next seminal event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not turn away. We will lean into it. \u2026 The stakes are high. And the time is now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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