Wolf Pack completes Unit Compliance Inspection

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  • By Staff Sgt. Alice Moore
  • 8th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea --  The 8th Fighter Wing received a satisfactory rating April 22, during its Unit Compliance Inspection here. 

Colonel CQ "Wolf" Brown, 8th Fighter Wing commander, said he was satisfied with the overall rating. 

"I thought we did well. If you look at the definition of a satisfactory rating in the AFI (Air Force Instruction), it means we can accomplish the mission, which we can," he said. "There were some things that we really did well on and there are some things we do need to work on based on this inspection." 

Colonel Brown said the purpose behind UCIs is to have an outside independent look at the wing. 

"That's the whole reason why we have these inspections. These inspectors were able to assess how well we do our job," he said. 

The "Wolf" also said the inspection was a good avenue for the wing to discover areas that need improvement. 

"The UCI also gave us a means to highlight areas that we probably need to focus on a little bit more," Colonel Brown said. 

Colonel Brown said all write ups would be evaluated. 

"With some of our write ups, there may not be a quick fix solution," he said. "We will have to look at how we prioritize across the wing." 

Overall, leadership is pleased with the finishing the inspection and receiving the team's feedback, Colonel Brown said. However, he also wanted the Wolf Pack to know that it's important to address the areas that need to be worked on. 

"We're going to look at every single one of the write ups as quickly as possible and fix the areas that need to be fixed," he said. 

Although there were some write ups with the inspection, the wing was also recognized with some best practices. 

The 8th Mission Support Squadron was recognized for streamlining the base-wide in-processing procedures from four days to 10 hours. 

"Cutting back to just one day gave us the opportunity to not only get Airmen into their work centers faster, but reduce the amount of man hours (8th MSS) had dedicated to the four-day process," said Master Sgt. Kristi Wilson, 8 MSS relocations superintendent. 

Sergeant Wilson said. The new in-processing schedule did not remove anything, but had prioritized it. For example, there are certain briefings that must be given in person such as the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC), immunizations and the wing commander's briefing. Other briefings are done through handouts or other forms of mass communication. 

"We just referred to the AFI and the USFK (United States Forces in Korea) policies to find out which briefings had to be done in person and which did not. From there, we were able to cut out a lot of "filler" briefings," she said. "It was not a contest between what was more important and what was not, it was just a matter of saving people time." 

Now that the inspection is over, Colonel Brown said the work put into making the inspection a success will be something future Wolf Pack members will be able to benefit from. 

"First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for all the hard work, because we worked for a long time to get ourselves ready for the UCI," he said. "Not only did we just prepare ourselves for the inspection, we took this as an opportunity to look at how we can do things smarter at the Wolf Pack. So it's important for one of our goals we had, which was a strategy of execute to endure. We want to make sure that all of the hard work that got put into the continuity books has longevity and will last well after all of us are gone." 

Colonel Brown said the goal is to take all of the best practices and programs that have been developed over the last year and institutionalize them so that it will be around for the next inspection. 

"We don't want to have to recreate programs again for the next UCI," he said.

Senior Airman Steven Doty contributed to this article.