DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. -- Servicemembers are susceptible to evaluations throughout their military careers. To ensure one is eligible for promotion or has acquired a required skill, evaluations are essential during our military transitions.
Keepers of the evaluation process may be unit commanders, supervisors or fellow Airmen, but few know of the Installation Exercise Program here that unifies a staff of Dobbins members who exhibit exceptional professionalism and are considered subject matter experts in their respective functional areas.
As part of recruitment efforts for members of the exercise evaluation team, Lt. Col. David Smith, 94th Airlift Wing combat readiness chief, is searching for five, preferably local, qualified candidates to join the 94th Airlift Wing combat capabilities staff.
Interested traditional Reservists must be nominated by their unit commander and will be asked to prepare a short resume highlighting their Air Force Specialty Code, breath of experience and desire to join the exercise evaluation team.
"Primary duties of the EET member is to assist in developing exercise scenarios and planning and carrying out exercise events within their area of expertise," said Smith.
"They also observe the exercise events in order to evaluate the ability of the installation to respond to accidents, disasters, contingencies, increased states of readiness and deployments."
EET members will develop exercise scenarios for the numbered Air Force, as well as the wing, in which examples may include deployed unit, major accident response and natural disaster response exercises, said Smith. EET members are required to conduct at least one exercise per quarter.
To interconnect pieces of the puzzle, training is an integral component to the success of a new EET member.
"The requirements don't mandate a lot of experience in evaluation," said Lt. Col. Richard Alexandersen, 22nd Air Force chief of operations. "New members are trained to observe and elicit responses, but also trained to participate."
Air force guidance has placed emphasis on the importance of an EET's duties so that members are competent in the preparation for an attack, said Alexandersen. EET members must also train members on how to respond and recover from an attack and evaluate the unit's response, he said.
"We have to be fully operational two hours following an attack," said Alexandersen. "If our EET members aren't fully trained, this recovery can take more than four or five hours."
Opportunities are available in logistics readiness, aerospace maintenance, air transportation and emergency management and will be accepted until Sept. 30.
For more information about openings, please contact your unit commander or the Combat Capabilities office at 678-655-2649.