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 Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium delivers mobility roadmap for high-end fightPublished Nov. 2, 2022
                        
                        
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                The 54th Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium recently brought together nearly 1,600 Air Force senior leaders, industry partners, partner nation representatives and mobility Airmen in a single forum in Denver.
During the event, which focused on the theme of “The Fight to Get to the Fight,” **Gen. Mike Minihan**, commander of **Air Mobility Command**, provided the “**State of the Mobility Air Forces**” and spoke of the need for mobility Airmen to prepare today to meet complex joint integration needs within the Indo-Pacific **region**.50:40
    
    

    
    
    Gen. Mike Minihan, Air Mobility Command commander, delivers his keynote address to Mobility Airmen attending the 2022 Airlift/Tanker Association Conference in Denver, Colorado, Oct. 27, 2022.  Minihan provided a “state of the Mobility Air Forces” and the path ahead of Mobility Guardian 2023 and a potential near-peer and peer fight.  Additionally, he illustrated the need to leverage a Warrior Heart culture to address the realities of lethality Mobility Air Forces are being asked to bring to the joint fight.  This year’s A/TA Symposium brought together Air Force senior leaders, industry partners, media representatives, and Mobility Airmen and partners in an open environment to engage on issues and challenges facing America and the Air Mobility community at large, with a specific focus on the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility and the mobility joint force requirements that will yield safety and security for the nation.  (U.S. Air Force video by Tech. Sgt. Zachary Boyer)






“Victory will ride on your shoulders,” Minihan said. “And the main thing is unrepentant lethality. If we do that, America’s peace, prosperity and prestige is preserved and strengthened.”
Minihan said that requires a series of decisions that ensure the joint force can win now against a pacing competitor, including changes in current tactics, techniques and procedures; advancement in technologies; and the implementation of **Agile Combat Employment** and Multi-Capable Airmen concepts. He also challenged the Mobility Air Forces to adopt a Warrior Heart mindset to be prepared to face the realities of the lethality the MAF would deliver in a high-end combat scenario.
This sentiment was echoed by additional senior Department of Defense leaders throughout the conference.
“In the president’s recently released **National Security Strategy**, he made it clear that China and Russia are working overtime to undermine democracy and export a model of governance marked by repression at home and coercion abroad,” said **Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost**, commander of **U.S. Transportation Command** during her******remarks**. “To meet national defense objectives, we must adopt the mentality that challenge is not synonymous to impossible and contested is not the same as impenetrable ... This is the component of the Warrior Heart the AMC commander is so passionate about.”
Minihan treated the symposium as a three-day commander’s call during which he unveiled the **Mobility Manifesto**, a conceptual framework that focuses on how to organize, train and equip current and future Airmen and their tools to address the crisis of global authoritarian aggression. It demonstrates the adaptive nature mobility brings to the current fight and the critical maneuver force it will bring to the next, while highlighting the significant risk to the joint force of inaction.
“Without air mobility there is no meaningful maneuver,” the document said. “Without air mobility, there is no lethality. Without air mobility the joint force cannot project power and deliver deterrence.”
Two key seminars, **Mobility Fight Club** and **Mobility Air Forces Next Generation Operations**, provided a deeper look at a potential high-end fight and provided insight into how AMC will lead the way in tackling global and theater challenges in an enterprise-wide campaign to protect, connect and sustain meaningful maneuver for the joint force.
Minihan said AMC’s premiere exercise, Mobility Guardian 2023, set to occur in the Indo-Pacific region, will test the MAF enterprise’s concept of operations in a potential high-end fight.
Senior leaders throughout the Air Force stressed the success of the overall joint mission is not possible without first leveraging agile, resistant, survivable and sustainable forces of the MAF.Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, delivers her keynote address during the Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Denver, Colo., Oct. 29, 2022.  This year’s symposium brought together 1,600 Air Force senior leaders, industry partners, media, partner nations representatives, and Airmen with mobility equities, to include Airmen from Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Force Education Command. The open environment drove discussion on issues and challenges facing America and the Air Mobility community at large, with a specific focus on the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility and the mobility joint force requirements that will yield safety and security for the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jodi Martinez)Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, delivers her keynote address during the Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Denver, Colo., Oct. 29, 2022. This year’s symposium brought together 1,600 Air Force senior leaders, industry partners, media, partner nations representatives, and Airmen with mobility equities, to include Airmen from Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Force Education Command. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jodi Martinez)
            
            
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    Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass provides her keynote address during the Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Denver, Colo. Oct. 29, 2022. Bass spoke to mobility Airmen and mobility partners, in which she expressed her focus on building a human capital strategy so that every Airman knows their role and purpose in our Air Force. The strategy consists of the rollout of the Enlisted Force Development Action Plan, Blueprint and Purple Book. Combined, all are essential tools to assist every Airman and supervisor in how we develop and employ our Airmen. Additionally, she stressed the need to understand strategic competition, what is at stake, and the high-end fight. Finally, she thanked mobility Airmen and underscored their imperative role within the joint force mission. “Pacific Air Forces cannot do their mission without you,” said Bass. “U.S. Air Forces in Europe cannot do their mission without you. Air Combat Command, U.S. Central Command, Air Force Global Strike Command, U.S. Africa Command ... Nobody can do their mission without you.” This year’s symposium brought together 1,600 Air Force senior leaders, industry partners, media, partner nations representatives, and Airmen with mobility equities, to include Airmen from Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Force Education Command. The open environment drove discussion on issues and challenges facing America and the Air Mobility community at large, with a specific focus on the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility and the mobility joint force requirements that will yield safety and security for the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jodi Martinez)Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass provides her keynote address during the Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Denver, Colo. Oct. 29, 2022. Bass spoke to mobility Airmen and mobility partners, in which she expressed her focus on building a human capital strategy so that every Airman knows their role and purpose. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jodi Martinez)
            
            
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    Gen. Mike Minihan, Air Mobility Command commander, delivers his keynote address during the Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Denver, Colo., Oct. 27, 2022.  Minihan provided a “state of the Mobility Air Forces” and the path ahead of Mobility Guardian 2023 and a potential near-peer and peer fight.  Additionally, he illustrated the need to leverage a Warrior Heart culture to address the realities of lethality Mobility Air Forces are being asked to bring to the joint fight.  This year’s symposium brought together 1,600 Air Force senior leaders, industry partners, media, partner nations representatives, and Airmen with mobility equities, to include Airmen from Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Force Education Command. The open environment drove discussion on issues and challenges facing America and the Air Mobility community at large, with a specific focus on the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility and the mobility joint force requirements that will yield safety and security for the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jodi Martinez)Gen. Mike Minihan, Air Mobility Command commander, delivers his keynote address during the Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Denver, Colo., Oct. 27, 2022. Minihan provided a “state of the Mobility Air Forces” and the path ahead of Mobility Guardian 2023 and a potential near-peer and peer fight. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jodi Martinez)
            
            
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“**Pacific Air Forces** cannot do their mission without you,” said Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force **JoAnne S. Bass**. “**U.S. Air Forces in Europe** cannot do their mission without you. **Air Combat Command**, **U.S. Central Command**, **Air Force Global Strike Command**, **U.S. Africa Command** ... Nobody can do their mission without you.”
Additional keynote speakers included Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. **David Allvin**, Commander of Air Education and Training Command **Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson**, Chief of the Air Force Reserve and Commander of Air Force Reserve Command **Lt. Gen. John Healy**, Director of the Air National Guard **Lt. Gen. Michael Loh**, and **Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick**, AMC command chief.
The A/TA Symposium also included representation from the **Air Force Special Operations Command**, which delivered two seminars on AFSOC and AMC partnerships.
International representation came from military departments of the United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, Italy, Australia and Romania.
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