AFMC Connect
AFMC Connect focuses on building relationships. We invest in our collective success by providing the time, tools and resources to enhance personal and professional performance. AFMC Connect is a multi-faceted initiative integrating a shared message across the command, while giving time and autonomy back to squadrons. For AFMC Connect to be effective, leaders at every level must have active and sustained engagement with the people they lead.
AF Gaming ESports
Air Force Gaming & Esports is a community based gaming organization comprised of the world’s greatest Airmen and Guardians. Our aim is to recruit the leaders of tomorrow, retain the Airmen and Guardians of today, and strengthen each wingman's resiliency through friendship, accountability, and mentorship. Join your teammates on AF Gaming ESports.
The Bridge
ACC’s “The Bridge” strives to Connect People and Strengthen Units and Communities. Developed by the ACC A1 to share materials command-wide, “The Bridge” consolidates resources to to help Airmen and Guardians find reliable information for challenging personal and professional issues quickly.
Dragon Chat
Small core discussion groups that incorporate a way for all Airmen and Guardians to connect with one another, support the Air Force mission, heritage, and our Core Values. The intent is to improve how well we get to know one another as individuals and team members. Get together with your military and civilian coworkers in small groups of 15 people or less, once a month, every month for an hour. Check out Dragon Chat.
Five Minutes to Thrive
Each new day presents us with opportunities to adapt and overcome challenges placed on our paths. How we adapt to change in our lives is influenced by numerous internal and external factors. We have tools at our disposal to help us feel like purposeful actors in our lives and not merely bystanders. Check out the tips from Five Minutes to Thrive.
Mental Fitness Obstacle Course
Self-Awareness is a critical step in self-improvement. Not only identifying when you are under stress, but how you cope, and how you can improve for the future. How you respond in your environment has implications far beyond just yourself. When you raised your right hand and swore to defend the Constitution of the United States, you became a part of something bigger than yourself. You because a member of one of the greatest teams on earth and you owe it to your teammates to be the best version of yourself that you can be, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Mental Fitness Obstacle Course
Operation Grit
OPERATION GRIT is a holistic approach centered around connecting Airmen and Guardians to each other, heritage, and the broader Air Force mission. USAFE-AFAFRICA is investing in collective success by providing time, tools, and resources to enhance personal and professional performance and promote a shared responsibility of Airmen/Guardians taking care of Airmen/Guardians. A foundational component of this initiative are the monthly “Check 6” discussions guided by leaders and supervisors at every level during their normal routine workflow. Discussions center on key topics that strategically align resilience and prevention focus areas, by-law training requirements, personal/professional development, Air Force Core Values, and goals established in the MAJCOM Community Action Plan. OPERATION GRIT is deliberately focused on two primary shared protective factors for Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence - Connectedness and Shared Sense of Purpose - to have the greatest impact for prevention and resilience that will result in long-term, durable culture change and meet desired outcomes.
SOAR
SOAR teen outreach, developed at Edwards AFB, helps encourage social interaction and creates a peer-to-peer support system for teens with the goal of suicide prevention. You can find an outline of the program on our website. SOAR is currently for ages 13-18 and meets once a month. The teens pick what activities they’re passionate about and do them as often as they want together To find out more information about starting a similar program at your installation, visit the SOAR Facebook page: @SOAR Edwards or email at: soar.edwards@gmail.com for more information.
Team Talks
Team Talks is a program that is pre-designed to allow leaders to have facilitated, open, and transparent communications with their Airmen and Guardians with little to no preparation. The prepared questions allow even the most introverted leader the ability to lead a discussion that promotes communication and understanding. Team Talks is a monthly conversation that could take one hour to explore a given topic. Team Talks provides quotes to break the ice, questions to explore and grow, helping agency contact information if needed, and optional additional information such as blog posts, articles, AFIs, books, and TedTalk/Youtube videos. Team Talks is provide in a word document that may be edited/tailored to your specific organization to better serve your organizational needs. Find out more about Team Talks.
Who is Your Person?
This short, simple exercise proved deeply meaningful to team Vance for uniformed and civilian Air and Space Professionals. Regardless of rank or position, you have or will face tough times or encounter challenges and obstacles – but no one has to face them alone. So, perhaps we can all take a moment and follow Team Vance’s example and ask ourselves “WHO IS YOUR PERSON?”