By Bo Joyner / Published April 13, 2021
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga.
Maj. Gen. Bryan Radliff, the mobilization assistant to the commander of First Air Force (Air Forces Northern) and the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, is leading a new working group charged with conducting a thorough study of Air Force Reserve Command’s Individual Mobilization Augmentee program.
“The group’s focus is to ensure our IMAs receive proper administrative control and support to meet guidance established by the National Defense Strategy and Department of Air Force leaders,” Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, AFRC commander, said in a memo announcing the strategic review in early March. “I look forward to receiving the results of this study as we continually evaluate processes to make the lives of our Airmen better.”
Safety oversights, inexperience at play in deadly 2020 ATV rollover at Ali Al Salem 3 hours ago Senior Airman Jason Khai Phan, assigned to the 66th Security Forces Squadron, was photographed in 2019 as an airman first class. Phan, of Anaheim, Calif., died as a result of non-combat related injuries while conducting a routine patrol outside the perimeter of Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, Sept. 12. (Air Force) A recent investigation into the all-terrain vehicle rollover that killed an American airman on patrol outside Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait last fall found that none of the ATV’s occupants wore seatbelts, and only one door may have been locked as needed.
Lack of Training a Factor in ATV Rollover That Killed 26-Year-Old Airman in Kuwait
Senior Airman Jason Khai Phan, photographed in 2019 as an airman first class, 66th Security Forces Squadron, of Anaheim, Calif., died as a result of non-combat related injuries while conducting a routine patrol outside the perimeter of Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, Sept. 12. (Courtesy U.S. Air Force)
6 Apr 2021
Air Force officials waived airmen s in-person vehicle training requirements during the global pandemic, something investigators noted in a comprehensive review of a vehicle rollover accident in the Middle East that killed a 26-year-old senior airman.
Senior Airman Jason Khai Phan, from the 66th Security Forces Squadron at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., died after being ejected from an all-terrain vehicle while on a routine perimeter sweep of Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait in September, an Air Force ground investigation board report found.
By COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 5, 2021 Speed and the failure to follow safety regulations were factors in the death of a 26-year-old U.S. airman, who was killed in September during a rollover wreck of an armored vehicle outside a Kuwait air base, an Air Force investigation determined. None of the three Air Force Security Forces airmen inside the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain Vehicle, or M-ATV, were wearing helmets or seatbelts, when the driver lost control of the 28,000-pound vehicle, flipping it over and ejecting Senior Airman Jason Khai Phan, an investigation board found. Phan, who was seated behind the driver, was killed instantly in the Sept. 12, 2020, wreck near the end of a 12-hour security patrol just outside Ali Al Salem Air Base, where he and the others were deployed.