They are tested and evaluated to the same standard. This insures that no matter which unit, active, guard, or reserve is called, it will be at a rated readiness, prepared and ready for the mission. They have successfully engineered reliability and relevance without parallel. Every major Air Guard unit is rated at C-2 or better, and most are at the highest possible rating. Many of you may take the Total Force as a fact of life.
Integration is taken for granted in some quarters.
I can assure you that it requires extraordinary effort and visionary leadership to build and maintain. Count yourselves fortunate to enjoy the fruits of that monumental leadership and the great pains taken by your predecessors. The Air components have led the way towards full integration and the Total Force success. I might add that AMC in particular has been on the leading edge of this Air Force transformation process. Every mobilization, every deployment, yields valuable lessons, and we are getting real good at this.