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Reserve holds first enlisted development team at ARPC

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  • By Mike Molina
  • ARPC Public Affairs
DENVER --  The Air Force Reserve's first enlisted development team met at the Air Reserve Personnel Center here Aug. 23-27.

Fifteen chief master sergeants and two officers looked at career and developmental education advice for the more than 830 chief master sergeants in the Air Reserve Component.

Maj. Gen. Martin Mazick, Air Force Reserve Command vice commander, served as the team's senior mentor and kicked off the inaugural event.

"This is where the dialogue begins," General Mazick said. "You are on the leading edge of describing what future chiefs in our Air Force Reserve should have in their portfolios."

Chief Master Sgt. Dwight Badgett, AFRC command chief master sergeant, discussed the team's role in providing career advice to the chiefs being vectored, as well as to Airmen making their way through the ranks.

"The real meat of this is going to be that tech, master or senior (master sergeant) who now have guidance on how they're going to find their way to the top," Chief Badgett said. "This is the groundwork to make sure our Airmen have the opportunities they need."

The Air Reserve Personnel Center manages AFRC's force development efforts. It hosted the first reserve officer development team in 2006. This year more than 35 officer and enlisted teams are scheduled to meet at ARPC.

Center officials have hosted five career-field specific teams for enlisted Airmen, called Quality Review Panels. QRPs were for paralegal, public affairs, contracting, and logistics and plans Airmen.

The chief's event was the first time enlisted reservists have been vectored based on rank.

ARPC will host an enlisted development team for the chaplains' career field in November and for the contracting career field in December.

The ARPC Force Development website at http://www.arpc.afrc.af.mil/library/developmentteams/index.asp allows Airmen to submit or review a development plan or to see a listing of meetings for specific career fields.