general goldfein is not on that chart. not a a single general officer in the united states air force is on that chart. it takes all of us to get that combat power ready and able to fight. a fist is nothing without the weight of the body behind it. the chief and i were asked in march, what it would take for the air force to implement the national defense strategy, to confront innovating adversaries seeking to dominate their neighbors. what does it take? as ehrman we should be able to answer that question. the defense strategy tells us that we need to be able to defend the homeland, provide a credible nuclear deterrent, went against a major power while encountering a rogue nation, all while managing violent extremists with lower levels of effort. while all of those missions rely on every service working together, each of those missions relies heavily on america's air force. for the last six months the air force has been modeling and analyzing scenarios. we were guided by the best intelligence we have for the 2025-2030 timefr

but as 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? [applause] okay. thank you very actually 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 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 picks on just going to kick this thing off but good morning. welcome to today and we have some fantastic speakers for you. really looking forward to it. there are several commanders here that you are all familiar with, so let me introduce them very quickly. we have lieutenant general scobee, lieutenant general rice, lieutenant general mcmurray, lieutenant general kwast

general goldfein, i greatly appreciate your support and leadership. 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 chapman. i'm often asked about the transition to the department with an undertone, is it what you expected? i tell people it's like breaking up with your longtime girl

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. really looking forward to it. several commanders at here that you are all familiar with, so let me introduce them very quickly. we have lieutenant general scobee, lieutenant general rice, lieutenant general mcmurray, lieutenant general kwast, lieutenant general webb, chief right? did i see him? no, he's not, okay. he's a cowboy fan so we understand that. he has another speech actually. general miller, general gray, general brown, general holmes, general raymond, general wolters, general wilson and finally general goldfein. so ladies and gentlemen, please welcome an all-star panel for you this morning, the leadership of the united states air force. [applause] thanks, larry. so let me kick it off by saying first of all, as we were to deliver this one to three punch, three being the third day here, the secretary first laid out the air force we need for the future to be able to execute the national defens

and finally, general goldfein. so ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to us an all-star panel for you this morning. the leadership of the united states air force. ♪ >> thanks, larry. so, let me kick it off by saying first of all, as we worked to deliver this one-two-three punch, three being the third day here, the secretary first laid out the air force we need for the future to be able to execute the national defense strategy. yesterday's discussion was how are we going to prepare and present that force? and today, chief wright will talk about and how do we develop our airmen from the ground up? so as we set the stage for where we're going in the future, i'll tell you as chief, this all-star team that we have assembled here is among the most combat-proven team of warriors that we as a service have ever assembled. and the important work that we have ahead, i can't imagine a better, more talented, team than this one. so wz as we kick it off. start to get the questions rolling in. i'll start with the world's greatest

you know, it was actually something the chief said, general goldfein talked about yesterday, he talkedbout this event, the afa event being the premier professional development event for us as airmen, service members, united states air force. i thchi i think it's important to sit there and take the opportunity to reflect on that. we probably don't do these kinds of things often enough. clearly there's opportunity when you have opportunity to see a chief master in the air force, our chief speak to us, that's important. but these dialogues on the side are nearly as important. one of the meaningful conversations i had yesterday was at an event after the day talking to staff sergeant from air force special operations command. what just an amazing squared away noncommission officer. so i just want to start off with a thank you. secondly, happy birthday. >> there you go. >> 71 years and a day. i'm going to offer it up. you all look great. it is important. it's important to sit there and reflect on our history. as i'm list tonging to the comb commanders, general hyten talking about our global

let me say welcome to secretary wilson, general goldfein, secretary peters, general spencer, all of ourtry 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 so forth. well, you know, in today's age of social media and the speed of information, i could get you t

goldfein, i have experienced this myself being stationed at a location where the schools weren't particularly rated very high outside of the base, particularly if i lived on base, so the question is, my family lives on base and the schools were zoned, the schools we were zoned for have really low ratings, private schools are way too expensive so i feel like they are my only option. i've heard this is the case where military families and other locations as well, what's being done to improve southwest to quality public education for military children? >> this is a great question, dave and i raised two daughters in between kindergarten and 12th grade, both our girls in 10 different school districts and as the chief alluded to not all school districts are created equally, i'm actually very excited to say that our secretary, secretary wilson, updated the strategic basing decision criteria including to include assessing the education al schools outside of a base, so what does that mean? that if we are trying to stand up a different weapon system on some base and some part of the united states that

goldfein, following up on that theme, a lot of families -- and i have experienced this myself -- being stationed at a location where the schools weren't particularly rated very high around outside of the base, particularly if i lived on base, so the question is, my family lives on base. and the schools we're zoned for have really low ratings. private schools are way too expensive, so i feel like they are my only option. i heard this is the case for military families in other locations as well. what is being done to improve access to quality public education for military children? >> this is a great question. dave and i raised two daughters in between kindergarten and 12th grade, both our girls were in ten different school districts. as the chief alluded to, not all -- and you sir, not all school districts are created equally. i'm actually very excited to say that our secretary, secretary wilson, updated the strategic basing decision criteria, to include assessing the educational schools outside of a base. so what does that mean? that if we are trying to stand up a different weapons sys

issues and my problems as my problems turn into a crisis are really talking about something general goldfein talks about and that is quality of service and quality of life. the lens i look at that may be slightly different than an active duty lens, but nevertheless all of the things that we talk about are -- can be put into one of those two categories, where an international guard or reservist can receive a quality of life of, say, not moving, staying affiliated with one place, one location, one mission, and having the opportunity to fly for a long period of time is one thing the reserve component presents as a quality of life. and also on the other side is the quality of service, the professionalism and the standards is relatively the same. in fact, it's exactly the same as the active duty and the amount of deployments we do in terms of the quality of the deployments is the same as across the total force, it's just maybe the quantity of deployments might be different on how and where we deploy. so as i look at quality of life and quality of service one of the things i'm focused on a lot bei