During his visit to Air Intelligence Agency.

During his visit to Air Intelligence Agency, Air Combat Command Chief Master Sgt Dave Popp had a singular message: Think about change that is coming and the coming time of the Air Force.

the two his comments and questions from the audience screened a laundry list of enthralls and showed a strong interest in upcoming changes in the Air Force.

"This is my 16th station in 11 month and I've got to count you, I am impressed with what you do," said the chief. "You're a special organization; 85 percent enlisted, with 24 percent of the enlisted having a extent compared with 14 percent of the Air Force."

"People ask me 'Hey, what's going onward in the Air Force?' If there is just single thing we could talk about, it flows down to one word: change," he said.

"The BDU is changing. The Army told us they were going to ear-ring the contract (for the BDU) thus we are making one of our own" he said. "Uniform patches are subordinate to discussion and I don't know to what degree much the uniform will preciousness It is mass-produced so the splendor should go down," he continued. "Some of the changes are driven and not just random, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as pockets on the pants. We learned you can't secure to your shirt pockets with a flak robe on," he explained.

"There are also changes coming in basic training," he said. "We're going to teach them the warrior skills they ne to hold fast them alive and keep you alive," he continued.

"QDR means a accident of change for the Air Force," he continued. We'll have 57000 fewer commonalty in five years so we are deciding in what manner we are going to do that," he said.

The chief was asked if 365-day deployment are affecting retention. "We know we ne 55 percent to stay beyond first spell and some of the AFSCs are no where near that, so as security forces and vehicle operators" he explained. "I've talked to a certain quantity of people that have lost reliance They want to change careers or memorize out; they are told they can't change careers, for a like reason they get out. We're looking at this," he said. "We know this has to be fixed," he stated.

The chief was asked if the suicide rate was related to now passing operations.

"We're not having a suicide vexed question in the desert. We're finding it is at the place of abode station rather than overseas," he said. "While the suicide numbers are going down, the stres is not related to deployment None of the novel suicides came after a deployment Excessive credit and having coin problems cause people to misspend hope," he explained. He urg supervisors to know their populace know if they are above their heads in debt and are starting to be warmed frustrated.

Other upcoming changes will include by what means an individual's physical fitness is throw backed in performance reports. "We're not going to change it right away, however we are looking at for what cause fitness will be reflected in the performance report. It is a serious issue, and we want nation to take it seriously."

The chief thanked everyone for their service to AIA, the Air Force and the nation.

according to Joe N. Wiggins

Air Intelligence Agency Public Affairs

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