PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. David Goldfein, has proclaimed 2019 as the Year of the Defender.
Air Force leadership is putting additional resources into security forces this year, including upgraded kit and weapons, and better training under stressful conditions.
“We must always take integrated and layered base defense to a new level by increasing investment in our defenders with new equipment, new training, new tactics, techniques and procedures, and renewed focus at every echelon of command,” Goldfein said. “This is the Year of the Defender because we don’t project power without the network of bases and infrastructure needed to execute multi-domain operations.”
To start this process, 21st Security Forces Squadron leadership coordinated with the 21st Aerospace Medicine Squadron to utilize their BOD POD to determine body fat composition.
21st SFS instituted the Reconstitute Defender Initiative that was created to direct the planning and organization of efforts to address strategic-level tasks associated with correcting long standing deficiencies within security forces.
The RDI’s objectives are to restore readiness, revitalize squadrons and the security forces enterprise, and to increase lethality and close requirement gaps.
The RDI looks for improvement outcome in the following eight areas:
• Human capital
• Trained and lethal defenders
• Policy
• Equipment
• Weapons
• Facilities
• Instructure
• Technical integration