1 00:00:00,959 --> 00:00:02,792 At the time , the chief of staff 2 00:00:02,792 --> 00:00:04,903 General Brown , he said , hey , I , I 3 00:00:04,903 --> 00:00:07,070 don't want a strategy that somebody is 4 00:00:07,070 --> 00:00:09,126 just gonna read and then put it on a 5 00:00:09,126 --> 00:00:08,939 bookshelf . He , he said , hey , we 6 00:00:08,949 --> 00:00:11,060 need an action plan . We need to have 7 00:00:11,060 --> 00:00:13,282 milestones , we need to have objectives 8 00:00:13,282 --> 00:00:13,149 and we need to have people who are 9 00:00:13,159 --> 00:00:15,659 responsible to make it happen . And so , 10 00:00:15,670 --> 00:00:17,837 you know , with that , we , we created 11 00:00:17,837 --> 00:00:19,948 the Enlisted Force Development action 12 00:00:19,948 --> 00:00:22,226 plan and some of those things in there , 13 00:00:22,226 --> 00:00:22,030 we're updating the blue and Brown books . 14 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,207 We created a purple book . At the same 15 00:00:24,207 --> 00:00:26,207 time , we realized we couldn't just 16 00:00:26,207 --> 00:00:28,429 have a an action plan . We need to also 17 00:00:28,429 --> 00:00:30,096 have something to help airman 18 00:00:30,096 --> 00:00:32,429 understand their place in the Air Force . 19 00:00:32,429 --> 00:00:31,940 And that's actually how the blueprint 20 00:00:31,950 --> 00:00:34,117 was kind of born . So through our work 21 00:00:34,117 --> 00:00:36,283 groups , we decided , hey , we need to 22 00:00:36,283 --> 00:00:35,935 have the people who are gonna be in the 23 00:00:35,944 --> 00:00:38,055 Air Force and a part of the Air Force 24 00:00:38,055 --> 00:00:40,166 coming up with the direction of where 25 00:00:40,166 --> 00:00:42,388 we're gonna go . And we thought about , 26 00:00:42,388 --> 00:00:44,444 hey , we need to have more things in 27 00:00:44,444 --> 00:00:46,388 between traditional PM E events as 28 00:00:46,388 --> 00:00:48,388 people increase in responsibility . 29 00:00:48,388 --> 00:00:48,284 What will give them a strong start . 30 00:00:48,334 --> 00:00:50,390 And that is how foundations was born 31 00:00:50,709 --> 00:00:52,860 your educational journey before 32 00:00:52,869 --> 00:00:55,400 foundations was brick and mortar 33 00:00:55,409 --> 00:00:57,576 institutions . And there would be 4 to 34 00:00:57,576 --> 00:00:59,599 6 years of gap between those 35 00:00:59,610 --> 00:01:00,610 institutions . 36 00:01:03,549 --> 00:01:05,438 So if you have a family , there's 37 00:01:05,438 --> 00:01:07,549 things that you wanna teach about the 38 00:01:07,549 --> 00:01:09,771 culture of your family at your home and 39 00:01:09,771 --> 00:01:11,938 then there's things that you send them 40 00:01:11,938 --> 00:01:14,105 to school to learn . So I , I want you 41 00:01:14,105 --> 00:01:16,216 to look at foundations the same way , 42 00:01:16,216 --> 00:01:18,327 the things that we send people off to 43 00:01:18,327 --> 00:01:20,105 school are are brick and mortar 44 00:01:20,105 --> 00:01:22,327 institutions , things that you can't do 45 00:01:22,327 --> 00:01:24,382 at the unit level . Foundations . On 46 00:01:24,382 --> 00:01:26,271 the other hand , is a touch point 47 00:01:26,271 --> 00:01:28,216 that's taught and led by airmen or 48 00:01:28,216 --> 00:01:29,993 their family that's at the home 49 00:01:29,993 --> 00:01:31,882 stations . Before foundations was 50 00:01:31,882 --> 00:01:34,105 implemented , there were bases all over 51 00:01:34,105 --> 00:01:35,827 the world that we're providing 52 00:01:35,827 --> 00:01:37,882 professional enhancement seminars or 53 00:01:37,882 --> 00:01:39,980 Pez It could be anything from how to 54 00:01:39,989 --> 00:01:42,529 write a better E pr or E PB uh 55 00:01:42,559 --> 00:01:45,449 performance report to emotional 56 00:01:45,459 --> 00:01:48,680 intelligence or five lenses , things 57 00:01:48,690 --> 00:01:50,746 that gave them better tools in their 58 00:01:50,746 --> 00:01:52,912 toolbox to be able to operate . And so 59 00:01:52,912 --> 00:01:55,079 with foundations , we kind of took the 60 00:01:55,079 --> 00:01:57,246 best of all of those things and looked 61 00:01:57,246 --> 00:01:59,357 at what it is that we were missing in 62 00:01:59,357 --> 00:02:01,523 the gaps between your brick and mortar 63 00:02:01,523 --> 00:02:03,579 institutions and what can be done at 64 00:02:03,579 --> 00:02:05,801 the base level . 80% of it is curated , 65 00:02:06,029 --> 00:02:08,196 which means everybody in the Air Force 66 00:02:08,196 --> 00:02:10,362 is getting that same similar content , 67 00:02:10,362 --> 00:02:12,473 which is important because our airmen 68 00:02:12,473 --> 00:02:14,696 move . And so you want them to have the 69 00:02:14,696 --> 00:02:16,807 same foundational baseline regardless 70 00:02:16,807 --> 00:02:18,973 of what base they were at . Outside of 71 00:02:18,973 --> 00:02:21,029 that 80% curriculum . There is still 72 00:02:21,029 --> 00:02:23,362 20% that's dedicated to each match home . 73 00:02:23,429 --> 00:02:25,485 Your traditional PM E events are one 74 00:02:25,485 --> 00:02:27,540 and done . Go to A LS once you go to 75 00:02:27,550 --> 00:02:29,490 NCO Academy once and so on with 76 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:31,667 foundations , you know , people can be 77 00:02:31,667 --> 00:02:33,778 in their respective tiers for up to a 78 00:02:33,778 --> 00:02:35,889 decade at the NCO or Senior NCO . And 79 00:02:35,889 --> 00:02:38,056 so , you know , Airman can go from one 80 00:02:38,056 --> 00:02:38,020 base to the next and say , hey , I 81 00:02:38,029 --> 00:02:40,251 wanna go to foundations , I wanna get , 82 00:02:40,251 --> 00:02:42,585 you know , reinvigorate what's going on . 83 00:02:42,585 --> 00:02:44,585 Um And so a lot of that was kind of 84 00:02:44,585 --> 00:02:44,539 shift the culture of development at the 85 00:02:44,550 --> 00:02:47,339 base and really unit level foundations 86 00:02:47,350 --> 00:02:49,350 right now is completely in person . 87 00:02:49,350 --> 00:02:51,639 There is discussion of in the future is 88 00:02:51,649 --> 00:02:53,705 um is there a benefit of making it a 89 00:02:53,705 --> 00:02:55,899 hybrid or , or blended learning 90 00:02:55,910 --> 00:02:58,077 environment ? The one thing that's not 91 00:02:58,077 --> 00:03:00,188 being discussed right now is distance 92 00:03:00,188 --> 00:03:02,188 learning A K A just click through a 93 00:03:02,188 --> 00:03:04,354 lesson because then it's just computer 94 00:03:04,354 --> 00:03:04,039 based training . The value of 95 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:05,830 foundations is the face to face 96 00:03:05,839 --> 00:03:07,839 interaction that is happening with 97 00:03:08,139 --> 00:03:11,399 airmen , NC Os and Senior NC Os back in 98 00:03:11,410 --> 00:03:13,632 front of their own troops . And that is 99 00:03:13,632 --> 00:03:14,509 the real benefit of foundations .