New 'Wolf Chief'' sets tone for base enlisted force

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  • By Senior Airman Stephen Collier
  • 8th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
Enlisted 8th Fighter Wing "Wolf Pack" Airmen are seeing a new senior enlisted advisor around Kunsan for the next year. 
  
  Even though he's still getting settled in, Chief Master Sgt. Anthony "Wolf Chief" Brinkley, 8th Fighter Wing command chief said he expects great things from the base's enlisted force. 

  "I expect to set a course for the Wolf Pack's enlisted force ... every time you show up into a room as an enlisted person, the standards have just been raised," Chief Brinkley said. "I consider average the top of the bottom. That's mediocre. For us to do the things our country has asked us to do and to support the mission and the Wolf, we must be above average to how we attire ourselves, how we train our people and how we get out there and accomplish the mission of Defending the Base, Accepting Follow-on Forces and Taking the Fight North." 

  And Wolf Chief said he knows the changes going on at Kunsan and in Korea and how much Airmen's lives are being affected by them. 

  With new dorms going up and an increase emphasis on quality of life initiatives steadily increasing, Chief Brinkley said he wants Wolf Pack members to remember the acronym 'TRIP.' 

  It's simple: 'T' is for training, 'R' is for resources, 'I' if for infrastructure and 'P,' which should be first, is for people," Wolf Chief said.

  Training
  "Training because we need to make sure our people are trained. We need to make sure they are postured as much as they need to be. People get here and the mission is so high speed we have a tendency to overlook some of those things."

  Resources
  "Everyone is fighting for the same pot of money, but we need resources to augment those challenges facing the Wolf Pack. As we continue to communicate our needs, when different people who have control over money visit the Wolf Pack, they'll leave here knowing how they can help out this part of the region and this part of the world. Infrastructure is important too."

  Infrastructure
  "We need to make sure we have the proper facilities at work so people can go home and decompress so they are ready to perform the duty we ask them too."

  People
  "People are first, even though they are the last portion of the acronym 'TRIP.' Rest assured, people are my first priority. If you work hard here, we need to make sure you leave the right way. We should be posturing people for greater things in the Air Force."
Chief Brinkley, a Wolf Pack first sergeant in the 2000-2001 class, is no stranger to Kunsan. 
  
  But, according to Chief Brinkley, he returned to the Pack "because of the great folks you meet here." 
  
  "It's incredible [being stationed here]," he said. "We have a terrific mission and it's a great place to learn the skill sets the Air Force requires you to do. I've seen nothing but great attitudes. A few hours after I landed, I got settled in and the next morning the horn went off and I MOPPed up, rolling with everyone else in the exercise. We have a serious mission. People need to understand what they are apart of and they really get it here."