Team Hill readies for UEI

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  • By Richard W. Essary
  • 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah --  A unit effectiveness inspection will kick off at the end of this month that will give several of Hill Air Force Base's organizations a progress report to show how well they accomplish their day-to-day mission.

From Oct. 27 through Nov. 10, nearly 180 inspectors from Air Force Materiel Command, the base's parent command, will visit Hill to assess the effectiveness of the 75th Air Base Wing, Ogden Air Logistics Complex, Life Cycle Management Center, Supply Chain Management Group, Nuclear Warfare Center and other Team Hill mission partners.

The inspector general team will focus on grading four major areas, said Tim Stone, 75th ABW IG, by determining how well each of the organizations execute their mission, manage resources, lead people and improve the unit.

This past summer, the Air Force overhauled its inspection process by doing away with major readiness and compliance inspections, also known as ORIs and UCIs. Now, IG teams will evaluate organizations every two years, and promise to be a continuous process, looking at an organization's performance over a period of time, not just one point in time.

Stone said the primary difference between the new and old way of doing inspections is "less getting ready for the inspection, and more explanation about how an organization performs its day-to-day operations."

Col. Ron Jolly, 75th ABW and installation commander, said he wants Team Hill to give it their best throughout the inspection by performing as they always do.

"This should be business as usual," Jolly said. "We have great people doing great things everyday on Hill, and I welcome the AFMC IG team to visit, look at how we operate and recognize our accomplishments."

Jolly said this inspection is also an opportunity to identify those people who go over and above Air Force standards while managing their programs.

"We call it reaching for the 'Art of the Possible,'" Jolly said.

The new inspection program is designed for process changes to sustain adjustments, Stone said, and any changes units make should not be just because an inspection team is visiting, but because they are the right decisions for the mission.

"If an IG inspector asks you a question, be honest in your feedback to him," Stone said. "Say, 'this is how we do it at Hill,' and if there is a blind spot that we haven't thought of, it's the IG's job to show that to our leadership."

Not all of Hill's AFMC units will receive a final inspection grade during this visit. Units with parent organizations located elsewhere will receive audit grades. For example, Hill's LCMC units will receive an audit score that will roll into an overall LCMC UEI score when their parent unit located at Wright-Patterson AFB is inspected sometime next year.