New enlisted leader joins 2nd Air Force team Published Sept. 23, 2009 By Senior Airman Eric Summers 81st Training Wing Public Affairs KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- Second Air Force has welcomed a new command chief to its team. Chief Master Sgt. Linus Jordan, a native of Eunice, La., has replaced Chief Master Sgt. Paul Moreau as top enlisted leader. "I'm very impressed with the quality of the permanent party and students, as well as civilians, reserve, and guard members since I've been here," the chief said. "My primary duty is to ensure good health, welfare, morale, utilization, and training of our enlisted force. "It's my duty to represent our commander, Maj. Gen. Mary Kay Hertog, and the total team well to include basic military training and technical school, and also overseeing joint training to help take 2nd Air Force to a higher level," the chief stated. Chief Jordan has led transportation support of humanitarian relief missions during Operation Enduring Freedom and deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operations Desert Thunder and Iraqi Freedom, including two combat tours executing theater convoys, refuel-on-the-move and forward aerial refueling point operations with the Army. "One of the advantages I have is that not only have I deployed as part of these joint expeditionary taskings with the Army, I've also trained at several of the power projection platforms that we use to prepare our Airmen to go forth and perform these duties in theater," Chief Jordan pointed out. "I plan to bring my personal experiences, both the positive aspects and the lessons learned, out to the field to see that we have made those improvements in needed areas to support the Army as well as properly train and take care of our Airmen so we can continue to provide the best trained Airmen possible to our combatant commanders." The chief has also served at several overseas assignments in Europe and the Far East. "Serving overseas not only allows you to grow personally, it also exposes you to different cultures that prepare you to deal with the diverse cultures that we have within our own military service -- the more we can expose our Airmen to different aspects of what we do around the world, the more we broaden them and help them to perform their duties better," said Chief Jordan. "I'm able to bring my experiences from Europe and Pacific Air Forces, as well as the deployments, to open the perspectives of some of our Airmen to let them know what the Air Force has to offer them as they serve around the globe." When asked about how his new assignment differed from his previous assignment as the 374th Airlift Wing's command chief at Yokota Air Base, Japan, the chief replied, "This assignment will differ because of the mission. Here I'm privileged to be a part of providing the world's best trained Airmen to the world's best Air Force. Second Air Force is responsible for basic military training, we manage 193 officer and enlisted pipelines -- career fields preparing them to go out and be a productive Air Force teammate. The mission here is much broader because of the joint training. We can't have a combat-capable force if we don't have a highly-trained force. That's what 2nd Air Force brings to the table -- 2nd Air Force is a combat multiplier. We're preparing Airmen to go forth and execute the mission that our commanders put before us." Chief Jordan remarked, "I'm sincerely proud and humbled to be a part of the 2nd Air Force team. I wake every day with two goals in mind -- to give my absolute best to all of my Airmen and to make sure that every decision that I make is taking the best care of them possible. The chief is proud of the missions in 2nd Air Force's respective units in Air Education and Training Command. "AETC is the first command for a reason -- because it's the portal into the world's premier Air Force, and we prepare sons and daughters to be combat-ready well-trained Airmen for the war-fighting commands," Chief Jordan emphasized. "During my tenure at 2nd Air Force, I hope the general and I can make every single person proud to be a part of the training team," he added. "We should only have our best and brightest preparing others to go forward and do our nation's work as part of our Air Force."