Fairchild inspection team provides UEI tips Published Jan. 14, 2014 By Airman 1st Class Sam Fogleman 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- As Fairchild's Unit Effectiveness Inspection capstone event occurs next month, the base will continue to ensure Fairchild units' compliance under the Commander's Inspection Program by evaluating self-assessment processes. "We've done a great job of standing up our self-assessment program," said Lt. Col. David Parlotz, 92nd Air Refueling Wing Inspector General, regarding the base's implementation of self-evaluation using checklists under the Management Internal Control Toolset. "Now we have to continue using it to make our units more efficient and better. MICT establishes a normal battle rhythm." With the inspection program in progress, the IG office will inspect different squadrons each month. The Air Force has given them each 83 checklist items that have to be inspected under a two-year program. The IG will pick two to three items per squadron each visit. "With very little notice, we'll just show up at your doorstep," Parlotz said. "Sometimes, the items will have to do with MICT, or how a unit executes its mission or how it conducts some administrative function." Parlotz said that it is important the IG office is advised if units have the resources and people to do their jobs, and if their leadership and Air Force guidance allows them to do so. Fairchild already has examples of MICT implementations that stand out, including the 92nd Operations Group Commander's Action Group chief. "Maj. Paul Campbell is an example of a manager that is ensuring that he has identified things that aren't working and then setting priorities for correction," said Master Sgt. Christopher Miller, 92nd Air Refueling Wing Inspector General superintendent. "He is balancing compliance between the Air Force Instructions and the mission between two different squadrons." Miller said that Campbell reviews his checklists every week, and then updates the personnel performing the mission. By conducting the weekly updates, Miller said the unit is able to document compliance between two flying squadrons. Unit MICT managers can reach out to functional managers at Air Mobility Command for guidance and feedback, said Parlotz. Functional managers and IG staff work together to improve the continual self-assessment program. The functional manager will ask questions so that they can do a better job or enable the IG to do a better job, Parlotz said. "It's about getting programs up to speed," said Parlotz, "the way they're supposed to be."