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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Lt. Gen Stephen Wilson, commander of Global Strike Command, and Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, provide an update, Jan. 30, 2014, in the Pentagon, on the investigation of compromised test materials at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.  During the press briefing, James and Wilson talked about the steps the Air Force and Global Strike Command are taking to address the integrity failure by some officers and measures to address systemic issues affecting the ICBM crew force.  (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)Press Conference Updating the Nuclear Mission
                        
                        
                        Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson provide an update, Jan. 30, 2014, in the Pentagon, on the investigation of compromised test materials at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.  During the press briefing, James and Wilson talked about the steps the Air Force and Global Strike Command are taking to address the integrity failure by some officers and measures to address systemic issues affecting the ICBM crew force. Wilson is the commander of Global Strike Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)
                
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        Lt. Gen Stephen Wilson, commander of Global Strike Command, and Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, provide an update, Jan. 30, 2014, in the Pentagon, on the investigation of compromised test materials at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.  During the press briefing, James and Wilson talked about the steps the Air Force and Global Strike Command are taking to address the integrity failure by some officers and measures to address systemic issues affecting the ICBM crew force.  (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)Press Conference Updating the Nuclear Mission
                        
                        
                        Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson provide an update, Jan. 30, 2014, in the Pentagon, on the investigation of compromised test materials at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.  During the press briefing, James and Wilson talked about the steps the Air Force and Global Strike Command are taking to address the integrity failure by some officers and measures to address systemic issues affecting the ICBM crew force. Wilson is the commander of Global Strike Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)
                
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        Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Lt. Gen Stephen Wilson, commander of Global Strike Command, provide an update, Jan. 30, 2014, in the Pentagon, on the investigation of compromised test materials at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.  During the press briefing, James and Wilson talked about the steps the Air Force and Global Strike Command are taking to address the integrity failure by some officers and measures to address systemic issues affecting the ICBM crew force.  (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)Press Conference Updating the Nuclear Mission
                        
                        
                        Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson provide an update, Jan. 30, 2014, in the Pentagon, on the investigation of compromised test materials at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.  During the press briefing, James and Wilson talked about the steps the Air Force and Global Strike Command are taking to address the integrity failure by some officers and measures to address systemic issues affecting the ICBM crew force. Wilson is the commander of Global Strike Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)
                
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Air Force addresses aspects of compromised test materialsPublished Jan. 30, 2014
                    
                    By Jim Garamone
                    
                    
                    American Forces Press Service
            **WASHINGTON (AFNS) --**Air Force officials have started to address aspects related to the on-going investigation of cheating on proficiency exams by nuclear launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.
Air Force Global Strike Command has put together force improvement program teams as a way to get solutions from front-line Airmen in this area.
“We’re going to take this wherever it goes,” Lt. Gen. Stephen W. Wilson, the commander of Global Strike Command, said during a joint Pentagon news conference Jan. 30, with Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James.
The general said he has put in place a force improvement program intended to find and fix what were described as systemic problems the intercontinental ballistic missile force faces.
"I can't stress this enough," Wilson said. "This is a grassroots level of effort. That's where the solutions are going to come from."
The program will allow Airmen the chance to identify problems that are affecting the culture, climate and working environment in the nuclear enterprise and find solutions.
There are about 25,000 Airmen assigned to the mission and all must be part of the solution to these systemic problems, James and Wilson emphasized.
“If all we cared about was the cheating ... we could put additional proctors in the classrooms and be done with it,” James said. “But we care about much more than that, and that's why this is going to be a holistic approach.”
No enlisted personnel are part of the on-going cheating investigation, but their concerns need to be addressed, the secretary said. The enlisted force is concentrated in security police, maintenance and facilities. Their concerns involved quality of life issues, and whether they are being incentivized fairly, she said.
Both officials made the point that the ICBM leg of the nuclear triad remains operationally sound. The Airmen are still performing their missions and still maintaining the most powerful weapons in the world.
Wilson reminded reporters that the morning of Jan. 30, it was minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit at Minot AFB, N.D., minus 15 at Malmstrom AFB and a balmy 15 degrees at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo.
“We have 1,000 Airmen right now, out in the field, doing operations, doing maintenance, doing security force operations,” he said. “They’ve been doing that for 50 years, 24/7, 365.”SecAF 



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