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Editor’s note: Sergeant Brown, a public affairs specialist with the Air Force Reserve’s 442nd Fighter Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., is on temporary duty with the 435th Air Base Wing’s Public Affairs Office.
A new in-processing program to the KMC for Airmen and their families will save them a precious commodity – time.
Consolidating briefings from medical, finance, military personnel flight and Airman and Family Readiness representatives, the new program moves in-processing closer to a one-stop reality and will become effective Monday.
“This is an AFSO (Air Force Smart Operations) 21 initiative to save individuals time with their in-processing and will help commanders get people working at their jobs as soon as possible,” said Capt. Jason Miller, 435th Mission Support Squadron chief of customer service.
“The current in-processing program suffers from no standard procedures and no accountability. It’s a big time-delay just for people to get to the four main offices,” he said.
Captain Miller said it sometimes takes new Airmen roughly 20 days to in-process and the new program will reduce that to six days at most.
“We’re standardizing the process in the sense that previously, everyone was doing briefings on different days,” he said. “MPF was on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Finance was on Monday and Thursday, and so on. It’s confusing to the member.”
The new schedule has medical and MPF briefings on each weekday. A&FR and finance briefings will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with A&FR in the mornings and finance in the afternoons.
“The most important thing for sponsors is that they tell the people they’re sponsoring to first go to MPF’s First Stop office and we’ll get their appointments set up,” Captain Miller said.
The captain stressed that the new program will have “huge savings” for new Airmen, as they focus on housing, driver’s licenses and other necessities.
“Ultimately, our goal is to have a one-stop in-processing location and this is a step in that direction,” he said. “We’ll inevitably have some things to work out with the new program, but we’ll adjust as we need to.”
