MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL AIR RESERVE STATION, Minn. --
Military and civilian members converged on the Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station to participate in a quality assurance class hosted by the 934th Communications Squadron here this week.
Mr. Randy Pierce, an instructor with the mobile training team from Keesler AFB, Miss., said that the class is a hybrid where students must complete a week of online coursework first before attending the “hands-on” portion.
“The goal of QA is to ensure training programs are effective,” Pierce said. “That is handled through personnel evaluations and equipment evaluations. If a person is trained and you have a good training program then your equipment is maintained.”
The class being taught here at the 934th is made up of individuals from around the Air Force Reserve Command and covers personnel proficiency and equipment upkeep through evaluation of the adherence to established policy and procedures.
“This program is fairly new,” said Tech Sergeant Henry Linn, a communications technician with the 433rd Contingency Response Flight at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. “The cyber QA program is starting to stand up in the Reserves and this will help me to evaluate how I’m training others and if they’re getting trained.”
With unit commanders and senior leadership looking for assessments that gauge their unit’s ability to perform key processes through standardized, repeatable and technically compliant process execution, courses like this help provide those assessments while fostering and growing the culture of professional excellence in all we do.