Team Dyess score satisfactory during inspection

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  • By Senior Airman Robert Hicks
  • 7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs
DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  Airmen from the 7th Bomb Wing maintenance and logistics teams scored satisfactory in the Logistics Compliance Assessment Program inspection held Sept. 19-23.

The LCAP provides leadership with an evaluation of a unit's ability to perform key logistics processes in a safe, standardized, repeatable and technically compliant manner, and is graded using a five-tier rating scale (outstanding, excellent, satisfactory, marginal and unsatisfactory).

Inspectors looked at how airmen are trained, how training is documented and how their performance is tracked.

It takes leadership at every level and the airmen were outstanding, said Maj. Graham Little, 7th Maintenance Operation Squadron commander.

One portion of the inspection included personal evaluations, where an inspector watched technicians perform a task and evaluated their ability to perform moderate functions of their job.

Inspectors also evaluated tasks that have already been completed to evaluate the end-work of technicians.

Over-the-shoulder assessments and safety checks of technicians doing final inspections on completed tasks are also done.

"I tell my airmen often, compliance has to be a culture, not something you scramble to create for an inspection team," said Maj. Darren Brumfield, 7th Component Maintenance Squadron commander. "I congratulate all the exceptional maintainers in the 7th Component Maintenance Squadron and those across the 7th Maintenance Group and 7th Mission Support Group who did an exceptional job at establishing that culture. It makes the 7th Bomb Wing a more precise and reliable option for our nation to call upon to deliver global power for America when it is required."

The maintenance teams have been preparing for the inspection since December, 2010.

"The LCAP team gave us a hard, thorough and honest inspection," said Col. Todd McCready, 7th Maintenance Group commander. "Our maintainers did an outstanding job preparing for the LCAP inspection. I'm extremely proud of this group because the inspection team's look at us was in-depth to a level I haven't seen in years. Finally, the inspection team chief commented that our 'group respected our team doing our job' and were 'always very professional and were receptive to what I and my team had to share.'"