Nuclear assignments, manning focus of briefings

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  • By Staff Sgt. Steve Grever
  • Air Force Personnel, Services and Manpower Public Affairs
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) --  Officers and enlisted members assigned to nuclear enterprise and other related career fields will be visited by one of five Air Force Personnel Center teams during the next three months to outline force development, assignments, education and training for the nuclear force.

Maj. Gen. Alfred J. Stewart, the AFPC commander, will visit with combatant command and major command commanders, while five other teams, consisting of an AFPC director and two officer and enlisted functional experts, educate the base-level populace during the tour.

"This is a great opportunity for open communication between our nuclear force and the AFPC experts responsible for managing this critical asset, and will ensure we are all working toward the Air Force chief of staff's goal of reinvigorating the nuclear enterprise," General Stewart said.

From November to January 2011, AFPC officials are sending five teams  to visit Barksdale Air Force Base, La.; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; Offutt AFB, Neb.; Whiteman AFB, Mo.; Malmstrom AFB, Mont.; Kirtland AFB, N.M.; Vandenberg AFB, Calif.; F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo.; Minot AFB, N.D.; Aviano Air Base, Italy; Incirlik AB, Turkey; and Spangdahlem AB, Germany.

Airmen from the following career fields will be briefed on officer and enlisted force development, assignments, education and training, as well as nuclear enterprise manning, joint manning and other emerging requirements:

Officers:
13S -- Space and Missile Operations
21M -- Munitions and Missile Maintenance
31P -- Security Forces

Enlisted
2W2X1 -- Nuclear Weapons
3P0X1 -- Security Forces

In his Air Force chief of staff vector sent to Airmen in July, Gen. Norton Schwartz discussed the importance of continuing to strengthen the Air Force's nuclear enterprise.

"As a bedrock of strategic deterrence and stability, it must be properly sustained and funded, and nuclear professionals need to be uncompromising in their pursuit of nuclear expertise and the highest standards of operational discipline," General Schwartz said. "We will not fail in this mission and will continue to be trustworthy stewards of two legs of America's nuclear triad and critical elements of our forward deployed extended deterrent."