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Exercise Mosaic Tiger 22-1 is in full swing and it’s being helmed for the first time by the 23d Wing’s A-Staff.
The A-Staff, a crucial element of this exercise, is composed of representatives from different core functions throughout the base whose diverse perspectives help synchronize operations and advise the commander.
“When you look across Moody Air Force Base, we have extremely talented Airmen doing work every day,” said Lt. Col. Ken Roberts, 23rd Wing chief of A-Staff. “And so we've asked our commanders to think about who should be on the staff and they sent us their best and brightest and their highest performing personnel, both officers and enlisted."
The 23d Wing A-staff exists to help and synchronize information across the entire wing and to improve the commander’s decision cycle. Simply put, Roberts added, the A-staff exists in tandem with the normal wing structure of flights, squadrons and groups but has a similar yet distinct function in coordinating the rescue and attack mission.
However, Mosaic Tiger is not just an attack and rescue exercise. It’s more of a command and control exercise by helping write clearly defined orders with commander intent, and units will have those as they go out the door and disperse to the different contingency locations.
“We are really excited about Mosaic Tiger,” said Roberts. “It gives us a chance to think it through, and just start moving out with what we know works in these capacities and recognizing when we don't have the right answer. If something doesn't work, we're going to quickly pivot away from it and try to find something that will work.”
The individuals on the 23d Wing A-staff are not only leading this multi-wing exercise but will help define the standards and expectations for lead wings across the Air Force.
Representatives from those other Lead Wings throughout Air Combat Command are observing Moody’s A-Staff in action to get a better idea of how the command and control structure functions and to collaborate best practices and lessons learned.
“I think there's been a lot of discussion generally about what Moody's doing,” said 2nd Lt. Alexander Sidawi, 23rd Wing, A6 director of communications. “They're really looking at Moody to kind of see how the A-Staff is forming and some of the challenges we're going to experience during Mosaic Tiger, especially since Moody's potentially the first to go out the door.”
Moody’s goal is to be capable of deploying as a Lead Wing by October 2022, and the A-Staff plays a crucial role in accelerating the change needed to get there.
The path to get deployable includes rigorous planning and exercising. Mosaic Tiger satisfies that requirement with a host of other challenges for the A-Staff, like executing the PACE plan for lines of communication, consisting of primary, alternate, contingency and emergency communication, and being prepared to adapt for being dislocated.
“As we face an adversary, it'll be very important that we stay maneuverable as a Lead Wing,” Roberts said about operating in a contested environment with degraded communications.
That forces the A-Staff to focus on demonstrating its ability to support mission operations, Roberts said, regardless of what obstacles they have to overcome to do so.
“It's definitely a humbling and exciting experience,” Sidawi said. “It's not very often that you do something so different than what you did before and how some of the efforts we're working on are going to change not just other bases, but probably an Air Force deployment as a whole.”
| Date Taken: | 11.17.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 11.17.2021 14:38 |
| Story ID: | 409515 |
| Location: | MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, GEORGIA, US |
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