94th AW receives effective rating Published Feb. 5, 2016 94th Airlift Wing Public Affairs DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. -- The Air Force Reserve Command Inspector General team concluded a Unit Effectiveness Inspection Capstone of the 94th Airlift Wing here Feb. 2. The AFRC IG team inspected units around the base during the Unit Training Assembly on four major graded areas: managing resources, improving the unit, leading people, and executing the mission.The 94th AW received an overall grade of effective.This capstone event was part of a redesigned Air Force Inspection System that aims to get a more realistic picture of a unit’s mission effectiveness.The UEI was designed to put the inspection process back in the hands of commanders, allowing them to focus on areas of their wings they feel are important to executing the mission, said Senior Master Sgt. Jeffery Sickler, 94 AW inspections superintendent.“Who better to assess the wing’s compliance and effectiveness than the wing itself,” asked Sickler. “The IG inspection division with wing inspection team members, sworn in by the wing commander in each unit, is charged with making unbiased assessments and executing the commander’s inspection program and 36-month UEI inspection plan.”To accomplish these inspection requirements, the wing inspector general inspections office employs Management Internal Control Toolset electronic checklists. MICT provides unit commanders with situational awareness of the compliance and noncompliance of programs and process they are responsible for within their units. These electronic checklists provide important data in conducting inspections within the wing. There are two types of inspections: vertical and horizontal.A vertical inspection examines a unit’s effectiveness across all the major graded areas, of several programs with in that one Unit. A horizontal inspection looks at programs and processes that impact most units in the wing.Units are assessed on how these wing level programs and processes are being implemented and complied with throughout the wing.“We are actually looking at how effective the wing can assess themselves,” Lt. Col. Stuart Rhoades, Chief of Analysis Branch Headquarter IG said. “That’s the core of the Air Force Inspection system now.”The UEI capstone event also included Airmen to IG sessions. In addition to ATIS, inspectors asked members of the wing to perform task evaluations, audits and observations.Approximately 385 individual sessions were conducted, said Sickler. This process of interviews allowed the AFRC/IG team to identify areas of concern to relay to wing leadership and validate unit level training, programs and processes.
