621st CRW announces new mission, vision

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  • By Staff Sgt. Robert Hicks
  • 621st CRW
The 621st Contingency Response Wing’s commander, Col. Chuck Henderson, unveiled the wing’s new mission and vision statements during an Airman’s call here Oct. 21.

The wing’s new mission is to “Advise, Direct, and Project Airpower, Delivering Instruments of National Power to the Leading Edge of Global Reach.”

The wing’s new vision is, “Devil Raiders…Uniquely Skilled Airmen, Building Partnerships, Strengthening the Joint Force, Mobilizing the Fight.”

Each is a result of a recent continuous process improvement (CPI) event that coincided with the CRW Commanders Conference held at JB-MDL in late September. In order to realign the 621st CRW’s mission and vision with the wing’s current and future focus areas, commanders and senior enlisted leaders from the wing’s three groups convened to provide their respective input to help form the new mission and vision statements.

“We gathered leadership from across the wing to distill our team’s identity and make it resonate with all of our mission sets and Airmen,” Henderson said. “Each now accurately conveys not only who we are as Devil Raiders, but what we provide our Nation as a team and how we do it—by advising, directing, and projecting Airpower. These are the core functions of a CRW Airman.”

The 621st CRW advises, directs and projects Airpower through four distinct and integrated types of units: the 621st and 321st Air Mobility Operations Squadrons that deploy Air Mobility Division expertise, the 621st Mobility Support Operations Squadron whose AMLOs advise and liaise with Army and Marine Corps units, the 571st and 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadrons whose advisors Build Partner Capacity, and the 821st and 621st Contingency Response Groups, which generate CR Forces that open, operate, and close airfields. The 621st CRW--America's only CRW--consists of approximately 1,500 Airmen assigned to three groups, 11 squadrons and more than 20 geographically-separated operating locations aligned with major Army and Marine Corps combat units.