National Director of Operation’s Biography
2009-2010 Focuses
Operations Documents in AAS Library
National Director of Operations Focuses
2009-2010
Efficient Reporting
As your National Director of Operations, I am charged with the responsibility of collecting, recording, organizing, and reporting our Society’s service accomplishments over the course of the year. Ensuring that DOs on all levels have a clear understanding of how the reporting process works and what the rules are is critical in the successful completion of this task. I will provide easy-to-use tools that will allow DOs to spend less time crunching numbers and more time accomplishing the mission: serving our communities. These tools, used in conjunction with the new operational rules and guidelines that went into AASMAN-1 at FiestaCON, will establish a system that is not only streamlined, but also allows hard-working squadrons to show off their accomplishments through more than just a nondescript “total number of hours.”
Teamwork
Horizontal communication is critical for mission success: an integral part of the National HQ platform, this idea could not apply more to our Society’s service effort. While camaraderie within the squadron is extremely important, it’s about time we acknowledged that our purpose is much bigger than that. We need to reach out and make every effort for inter-squadron service cooperation. While I understand there are many isolated squadrons out there, there are also many that are within an hour or two of each other. A squadron should not limit the scope of its service ideas to the size of its manpower. Imagine what an impact AAS can make on its communities when its squadrons show up “in force!”
Community Partnership
Arnold Air Society is 62 years old and functions not only as a service organization, but also as a means for the professional development of Air Force officer candidates. The American Red Cross is 128 years old and since its founding has established itself as a leading provider of emergency relief and service to our country. What’s my point? Arnold Air Society should not consider aiding organizations such as the Red Cross as a sort of “cop-out” or “shortcut” to serving the community. If we can be a provider of overwhelming manpower for such nationally established service organization…great! We will mutually benefit from such partnerships and still encounter opportunities to get the Arnold Air name out there.