The Logistics Readiness Squadrons and Logistics Readiness Officer Development and Composition

The Air Force has appropriately organized and located the Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) and Logistics Readiness Officers (LRO) within the Mission Support Group (MSG) to optimize mission accomplishment enabled by process-oriented management, practical span of control, and effective officer development to operate in both Air Force and joint arenas. Now more than ever our Air Force logistics community needs an era of organizational stability. Time is what is needed most to develop and mature both breadth and depth of our young LRO and the newly blueprinted LRS. The current logistics structure develops Air Force LROs to be multi-role, broad thinkers who view logistics as an enterprise -- not parceled out or separated between Groups at the wing level. Therefore, any future plans for change must be from a process-improvement vice organizational structure mindset.