Major Graded Area: Executing the Mission

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  • By Staff Sgt. Katrina Reveles
  • 47th Flying Training Wing Wing Inspections
LAUGHLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  This article is part of a multi-series to educate the reader on Major Graded Areas (MGA) associated with the new Air Force Inspection System. Major Graded Areas are important, because they provide the structure that all inspectors, both wing and major command, will use to conduct inspections. The four MGAs are Managing Resources, Leading People, Improving the Unit and Executing the Mission.

This month's article is on "Executing the Mission," and there are three main sub-categories: Primary Mission, Air Expeditionary Force Readiness, and Mission Assurance Command and Control (C2). Each subcategory contains the same four items: Warfighter of Air Force Command satisfaction, Right Quality, Right Quantity and Right Time.

When looking at the three main subcategories of this MGA, you have to correlate them to our mission. Laughlin's mission is: "Graduate the World's Best Pilots, Deploy Mission-Ready Airmen, and Develop Professional, Disciplined, Bold Leaders." All of our duties fall into this mission but what do you do in your unit, whether you are a knowledge operator, a flight commander, a journeyman or apprentice, when doing your job ask yourself, "Am I meeting the commanders intent, do we have the right quality and quantity of resources and are the resources provided at the right time?" When looking at AEF Readiness, how well are you and your unit able to deploy mission-ready Airmen? Have you accomplished all your annual computer based training? Is the deployed commander satisfied with the product and performance? And finally, Mission Assurance C2, this can be demonstrated through exercises, Emergency Operations Center, Group Control Centers and Unit Control Centers. Are we meeting the commander's intent, right quality, right quantity and right time? All three of these subcategories ensure we are executing the mission.

For more information on the new AF inspection system, please reference Air Force Instruction 90-201.