Lt. Col. Rebecca Bissette grew to become the brand new commander of the 225th Help Squadron throughout an assumption of command ceremony on the Western Air Protection Sector, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Jan. 4, 2023.
After assuming command, Bissette addressed the members of the 225th SPTS concerning the challenges they face right now. “I want to take this chance to speak about two areas that I feel are crucial to our shared success. The extent of threat we’re keen to simply accept, and our readiness.”
In response to Bissette, threat is “the hole between our objectives finish state and the ideas and sources wanted.” She emphasised that she has authority and accountability to successfully use and hunt down obtainable sources to perform the mission. “However, to successfully settle for this threat every of you have to be an agile and adaptive chief, permitting decentralized execution of mission-type orders to grab, retain, and exploit the initiative. To reduce threat, we have to be prepared.”
For Bissette, readiness isn’t simply what’s reported within the Protection Readiness Reporting System, or on a spreadsheet briefed weekly. Readiness is concerning the thoughts, physique and craft.
She defines craft because the strategies, techniques and technique, the coaching surroundings, that makes Airmen professionals. In response to Bissette, “It’s your pursuit of getting smarter and higher at your vocation…and it’s the important thing to our readiness as elite homeland defenders.”
For physique, Bissette is not only involved about Airmen’s capacity to go the Air Power bodily health check, however desires Airmen to concentrate on their vitamin, relaxation and energetic restoration as a result of total bodily well being is “ the best and most superior weapons system this nation has, YOU.”
Thoughts is outlined by Bissette as your consciousness, connection, and composure. The place consciousness is an individual’s capacity to train mindfulness, set objectives, present constructive analysis of themselves, and establish their self-worth.
To interrupt it down, connection is with an individual’s crew, friends, and their household. Whereas composure is “coaching your self to carry out underneath stress in a rugged, demanding, and hostile surroundings,” commented Bissette.
Bissette is adamant that thoughts is a crucial piece of the readiness triad, and she or he states that, “there is no such thing as a stigma in my command to your thoughts readiness. I would like you to be prepared, unleash your expertise, and supply sentry towards anybody that might trigger this nation hurt.”
Bissette graduated from the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 as a Distinguished Graduate and Blue-Chip Award recipient. She commissioned as a second lieutenant by way of ROTC and went on to finish research on the Naval Postgraduate Faculty in Meteorology in 2004. She served within the energetic responsibility U. S. Air Power as a climate officer and later joined the Air Nationwide Guard. Whereas serving within the Florida ANG, she was a squadron climate officer earlier than cross coaching in 2009 to air battle administration. She has mobilized in help of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle and Inherent Resolve.
Past her Drill Standing Guardsman duties as a WADS air battle supervisor, she has volunteered for quite a few energetic responsibility for operational help orders (ADOS) at Scott AFB, Ailing., over the past 12 years. Most notably have been her final two units of ADOS orders the place she was the Chief, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. European Command, U.S. Particular Operations Command Department at U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) and a Particular Motion Officer for the Air Mobility Command Commander’s Motion Group.
