and above of afa i'm welcoming you back. this is the 2018 conference, fighting under power, projecting power in the 21st century. as you know or should know the world has now turned into an area of major power conflict with adversaries adopting keeping the united states to carry the fight away from our and into the adversary's domain. and today's speakers, todd walters, command u.s. air force in europe, u.s. africa allied air command. general john raymond, commander air force space command. timothy ray, and lieutenant general brad webb, commander air force special operations command. the rules of engagement for this session are as follows. each speaker will make a presentation and then we'll take questions from the audience if there is time. believe it or not, we're going to be 21st century here and you can text your questions in to a number that should be up on the screen at some point. with that, let me give the floor to general walters and let him start. >> thanks, secretary peters. and behalf of all of us certainly for t

ladies and gentlemen, this has been another phenomenal afa.nd as i depart here today, i'm encouraged, i'm inspired, i'm more resilient because of airmen like miguel, like isaiah, and like j.d., and the example they set for all of us. in order to win tomorrow's war, to defend the homeland, to remain a safe and secure nuclear deterrent, to win against russia or china while deterring iran or north korea, and to maintain momentum in the veo fight, we need more airmen like them. airmen that are well trained. airmen that are well led. airmen that are agile. resilient airmen who are the masters of their fate. the captains of their soul. thank you. ♪

good morning afa.e say welcome to secretary wilson, general goldfein, secretary peters, general spencer, all of our industry partners, our distinguished guests. a special welcome to our 12 outstanding airmen of the year, on and i are extremely excited to be here. i also want to thank all of you for your overwhelming support of the office of the chief master sergeant of the air force. i really appreciate all the love, all the supports and want to make sure you all understand that none of us do this alone as i want to thank my team, 218, error air force senior enlisted leader council, and certainly my two bosses, our secretary and the chief. they are go-getters. they are hacking with things getting things done and our united states air force but i really do want to say thank you. now, normally i saw the briefing was titled something about the ground up or something. so you would expect me to come out and talk about a laundry list of all the great things we're working on for enlisted airmen and so on and

and, of course, larry spencer, thank you for your leadership of afa.en quite a year since the last afa conference, and for that i want to publicly thank my wing man, our chief of staff david goldstein and his wife. thank you for your good advice, your sense of purpose and your wonderful sense of humor. and to our chief master sergeant of the air force kaleth wright and his wife. this guy just keeps fixing things. you are a role model for us all, chief, but i'm not going to volunteer to be tased. [laughing] doing something for a purpose. sometimes it's hard to see the sweep of history when where just trying to get today's work done, which is what it's important to come together from time to time like this, to take stock of where we are so that we can reaffirm where we need to go. 100 years ago in the early morning of september 26, 1918, in the argonne forest near the muse river, the largest american offensive of the first world war began. 15 divisions of fresh american forces began to break exhausted german lines. in less than two months, the armistice

it has been quite a year since the last afa conference.ant to publicly thank our en, chief goldstein and his wife, dawn. thank you for your good advice, your sense of purpose and sense of humor and to our master chief of the air force, chief wright and his wife, tanya, this guy keeps fixing things and you're a role model for all of us, chief, but i'm not going to be volunteering to be tased. [laughter] >> doing something for a purpose. sometimes, it's hard to see the sweep of history when we're just trying to get today's work done, which is why it's important to come together from time to time, like this, to take stock of where we are so that we can reaffirm where we need to go. 100 years ago in the early morning of september 26, 1989, forest, the largest offensive of the first world war began. 15 divisions of fresh american forces began to break exhausted german lines. in less than two months, the armistice would be signed and the guns would fall silent over a shattered conference. -- continent. this veterans day will be the centennial of

please welcome to the stage the afa president general larry spencer. [applause] >> okay now look, we've had a great two days. we've got to get everybody awaken here this morning. so the mc just announced that president of afa, which means nothing. but as general wilson and general goldfein will tell you, i am also have the distinction of being the greatest vice chief of staff of the air force in air force history. how about that? [applause] okay, thank you. welcome to our last day. this is really been great and so we really appreciate you all being here and we really have a great panel for you today, essentially a lot of the leadership of the air force, most of the leadership of the air force and which was exciting today is we saved the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all money we had to the end and we went out and hired e most expensive, most talented mc we could find. so general goldfein will mc this morning sun just going to kick this thing off. good morning and again welcome to the date and with some fantastic speakers for you. real

congratulations on a very, very successful afa. wanted to do a shoutout here, first to secretary wilson, who is an extraordinary teammate. general goldfein, i greatly appreciate your support and leadership. i didn't see chief wright here but i just want to thank him for his service. and as secretary wilson said, he's a real role model for all of us. it is an honor to be a part of this team. prior to joining the department of defense i spent 30 years as was mentioned building airplanes, helicopters, missiles -- i loved my job. i have been in the department for roughly 400 days. i use days as a reference because time passes quickly and each day matters. i have gotten a glimpse of the missions, a taste of your commitment to your values, integrity first, service before self, excellence in all that you do. and exposure to your devotion to the nature. i see those values reflected in the excellence displayed by the 12 outstanding airmen of the year. and in the service exemplified by the medal of honor recipient master sergeant john chapma

please welcome afa's director for strategic deterrence, peter huessy. >> good afternoon, everybody.lease welcome the next panel. i'm very pleased to introduce one of the air force's very important combat commanders, general hyten. global command and control of u.s. strategic forces to meet our decisive national security objectives and provide a broad range of strategic capabilities and options for the president and the secretary of defense. we also are honored today to hear from chief master sergeant patrick mcmahon, the senior enlisted first leader for the united states strategic command where he's the senior enlisted adviser to general hyten. each speaker will provide opening remarks and open up for will begin with my dear friend, general john hyten. welcome. >> welcome. thank you. so, good afternoon, everybody. if you saw on the agenda, sitting to my left was going to be my friend, general shag oshanessy. he was diverted by a hurricane so he did not make it. i had to look around and find a combat and command representative who would be the same intellectual import. i didn't have

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome afa president general larry spencer. >> thank you.thank you all and good morning again and welcome back to one of the highlights of the three day session that we v. i got the opportunity to grow up in the nto. he was my role model and he gave me the best advance i had got. find you a good nco and hold on tight and that's what i did my entire career. most of us know. i don't think anyone in the room doesn't know who chief wright is and what he's accomplished and doing for the air force. clearly if you looked up the word or google the word rock star chief wright's picture comes up. chief wright is a chief's chief. he knowledges in the air force and the enlisted corp. >> and when i was enlisted and prepared for the wax examation. there was a performance fetness exam and called pdb. but we need to to become ta to the ream

so the emcee just announced the president of afa. which means nothing. but general wilson and general goldfein would tell you i am also have the distinction of being the greatest vice chief of staff of the air force in air force history. how about that? thank you. welcome to our last day. this has really been great. so we really appreciate you all being here. we really have a great panel for you today. essentially, a lot of the leadership of the air force, most of the leadership of the air force, and what's really exciting today is we saved the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all the money we had until the end and we went out and hired the most expensive, most talented, emcee we could find. so general goldfein is going to emcee this morning. i'm going to kick this thing off. good morning, again, b welcome to today. we got some fantastic speakers for you. looking forward to it. there's several commanders are here that you're all familiar with. so let me introduce them very quickly. we have lieutenant general scoby. lieutenant general rice.

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thank you for the warm welcome and congratulations on a very successful afa and i want to do a quick shout out. first to secretary wilson who is an extraordinary, he makes general goldstein greatly appreciate your support and leadership and i didn't see chief bryce here but i want to thank him for his service and secretary wilson as he said, he's a real role model for all of us. it's an honor to be part of this team. prior to joining the department of defense i spent three years as was mentioned holding airplanes, helicopters, missiles. ilove my job . i've been in the department roughly 400 days and i use days as a reference because time passes quickly and each day matters. i got a glimpse of the mission, a taste of your commitment to commitment to your values. integrity first, service before self, excellence in all that you do. and exposure to your devotion to the nation . i see those values reflected in the excellent display by the 12th outstanding airman of the year. and in the service exemplified by the medal of honor recipient, master sergeant john chapman. i'm often asked about

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have a a lot of industry people here in the audience, the largest numbers we've had somebody attend afa things you're partnering with the commercial injury >> you have got to -- this is a really important general point it's so important for the dod, for the air force, for every government institution when they can to use commercial solutions, and what i find is that when the requirements get written they are not written necessarily taking that into account in all cases, and so you get something -- you end up getting a custom built system which meets the requirements when a commercial system would have met those requirements or actually made a different set of requirements but in a much better way for the capability already being acquired, and that's a big problem it's very costly and slows you down you want to reserve your customer requirements for things that you really need special sauce, something where there really isn't and shouldn't be a commercial avenue. you know, on writing requirements, i tell our engineers at blue origin, good engineers build to requirements. great engineers

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doing with the african-american firefighters, the web and in, the veterans, and i just attended the afa come to the commission and share what you are doing. but the -- because the reflection of what you are involved with is a much more diverse attraction. again, i think we have to keep our hindsight for the folks of color to be able to look at that and see where we are in terms of our presence, and in terms of advancements as well. i made this -- made these various comments. i hope it makes some sense but i totally support this. the leadership you are exhibiting and what you are showing. i know everyone of you and i know what you are capable of. i know where your heart is and i know where your community spirit is. i know it just does not fly. i know your heart and your spirit and your community is all of us. again, i honor you. i am there to work with you as well. thank you, very much. >> president cleaveland: thank you vice president. i will wrap it up again by thanking you for your presentation. thank you for your leadership, each of you. you are an inspiration to all of us and keep u

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for your continued service to us all and of course, mary spencer, thank you for your leadership of afa's been quite a year since the last day of the conference and for that i want to publicly thank my wingman. our chief of staff, dave goldstein and his wife dawn, thank you for your good advice. your sense of purpose and your wonderful sense of humor and to our chief master sergeant in the air force and his wife tania. this guy just keeps fixing things. you are a role model for us all, chief, but i am not going to volunteer to be tased.