Team Dover completes LSEP inspection

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  • By Senior Airman James Bolinger
  • 436th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. --  The 436th and 512th Airlift Wings received the preliminary results of the Logistics Standardization and Evaluation Program Inspection June 11 during a briefing at the Base Theater. 

Dover Air Force Base's last LSEP was accomplished alongside a Unit Compliance Inspection in January 2006. 

The LSEP evaluation affected several units here in the 436th and 512th Maintenance and Mission Support Groups. 

The evaluation rates the unit as satisfactory, excellent or outstanding. 

While members of the inspection team discussed the preliminary results with Team Dover June 11, the results will not be official until Brig. Gen. Robert McMahon, Air Mobility Command director of logistics, reviews the report and it is posted on the AMC headquarters A4 Web site. 

"Our Team Dover Airmen and civilians have worked extremely hard during this time of war and exhibited a high degree of skill and professionalism during the task evaluations and day-to-day work observed by the inspection team," said Col. Chad Mankse, 436th AW vice commander. 

In the past, the LSEP was perceived as a relatively easy inspection where most units received a rating of excellent or outstanding, said Chief Master Sgt. Steven Ferrell, LSEP superintendent. 

Today, the majority of AMC units attain a satisfactory rating, and the 'easy-inspection' perception is a thing of the past. If a unit receives a rating of unsatisfactory or marginal during an LSEP inspection, the LSEP office will return and conduct a follow-up inspection. 

The inspection is applicable to all aircraft maintenance, aerial port, supply, transportation and maintenance training processes throughout AMC, said the chief. 

"The purpose of the LSEP is to provide AMC and unit commanders with an independent assessment of a base's ability to perform key logistics processes," said Chief Ferrell, who has been the LSEP superintendent for 3.5 years. "The goal is to ensure standardized, repeatable, technically compliant process execution, while promoting a culture of professional excellence and personal responsibility." 

More than 890 task evaluations were completed during the inspection throughout the maintenance and mission support groups. 

"This is an outstanding welcome to Team Dover, as the LSEP shows we have outstanding professionals here," said Col. Randal L. Bright, 512th AW commander. "The LSEP team showed us areas in which we could excel. Bottom line, we are doing the job the Air Force needs. I could not be more proud to be a member of this team."
Colonel Manske agreed with Colonel Bright on a job well done. 

"(Col. Steven Harrison, 436th AW commander) and I are very proud of the achievements of our logistics professionals across the base, and their diligence and hard work was validated by the inspection team," said Colonel Manske. "The inspection team also validated something we already knew - that Team Dover is highly competent in performing their wartime mission, any day and any time."