• Laying the foundation: A Dirt Boy’s rise to CMSAF

    MacDill Air Force Base helped lay the foundation for James Roy, who began as an Airman Basic and rose to become the 16th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. Roy returned to MacDill after 43 years to mentor chief master sergeant selectees and develop Airmen across the enlisted force.

  • The Blueprint: Roadmap to Enlisted Force Development

    The Blueprint serves as a foundational document to link enlisted development — from entry to departure. This new document is one of 28 Enlisted Force Development Action Plan (EFD-AP) objectives focused on developing tomorrow’s enlisted Airmen … today.

  • Fortune favors the bold, not the reckless

    Over the last decades, the Air Force became a force increasingly concerned with not losing rather than winning. A risk-adverse organization stunts its own ability to become innovative and agile from its largest commands to its most fundamental organizations. The Air Force’s recent focus on