William Leo “Bill” Shoemaker passed away on April 22, 2023. He was born on March 20, 1949, in Japan, into a military family, Joyce Fisher Shoemaker and Leo Vincent Shoemaker.
Innovation and a forward-looking mindset have long been key aspects of Air Force culture. Today, Airmen worldwide continue to exemplify these traits as they find innovative ways to implement new programs and processes to accelerate change in support of Air,
The action orders assist future planning efforts and add detail and clarity to Brown’s call for Airmen to push for accelerated change in modernizing the Total Force. The Action Orders are - Action Order A, Airmen; Action Order B, Bureaucracy; Action Order C, Competition; and Action Order D, Design Implementation.
“My strategic approach of ‘Accelerate Change or Lose’ explains the ‘why’,” Brown said in December when he released the Action Orders. “It is all of us . our talented Airmen … that are key to cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, recognizing and understanding our competition, and thinking of creative ways we can reshape the design of our Air Force.”