CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) -- Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III and his wife, Betty, visited the Airmen of the 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing to discuss the importance of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission during their visit March 24.
Among his stops to various locations around base, Welsh met with remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) pilots, senior non-commissioned officers, and the squadron and group commanders of the 432nd Wing and 799th Air Base Wing to discuss changes within the Air Force, such as the new enlisted performance report system and force management, as well as the importance of the RPA enterprise.
With the growing demand for RPA capabilities, Welsh acknowledged some of the additional stressors that have been placed on RPA Airmen and discussed his goal for stabilizing the mission to allow manning to steady, while still allowing those wishing to enter the ISR community an opportunity to do so.
"There are some things (about the RPA mission) that clearly have to change. We have got to get ahead of the training curve, we have got to get fully manned, and we have got to slow down the operational demand long enough to produce new pilots and crewmembers so that when others leave, the enterprise isn't adversely affected."
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