USAFE directors visit Incirlik Airmen, introduce new AF system

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  • By Senior Airman Anthony J. Hyatt
  • 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey --  Maj. Gen. Jack Egginton, U.S. Air Forces in Europe director of Air and Space Operations, and Brig. Gen. John Cooper, USAFE director of Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, visited here Feb. 10-11.

The USAFE directors had the opportunity to tour Incirlik facilities and talk directly to Airmen about upcoming changes and how those changes will affect them.

The directors also introduced and briefed Airmen within Team Incirlik about the Expeditionary Combat Support System, a new Air Force system that began its development phase in 2007.

ECSS is a major initiative designed to better support the war fighter by transforming the way the Air Force performs its logistics business and by leveraging ongoing initiatives and capabilities. The system accomplishes this by replacing the majority of existing logistics systems with a single set of business processes, software applications and data, according to the ECSS Web site.

The vision of ECSS is to enable an Air Force logistics enterprise that supports rapid and agile deployment, employment, sustainment, and reconstitution of the total force at acceptable risk, in a cost-effective manner, across the full spectrum of operations.

Complete implementation is not expected until 2013, states the ECSS Web site.

For more information about the Expeditionary Combat Support System, visit www.ecssmission.com.