What a pleasure to be here and to see many friends had so it's a special treat. This is my second day on the job. And so I want to. [ APPLAUSE ] I wasn't sure if I would be reliable to be here so I wasn't so I'm not on the program but I'm delighted to see friends that they have the chance to be here. You are about to hear From an extraordinary steam of leaders. I want you to know that you are going to hear from two of the greatest airforce people you'll ever hear from. Airforce officers and they are General, Okay, not brigadier General Not Major General, not Lieutenant General, but General Marianne Miller, who runs the Air Mobility Command. So what's Air Mobility Commander? You all probably know that dead to rights? The Air Mobility Command is like the UPS of the skies. This is also however, not just the UPS of this guys, they don't just deliver packages. They're also the fuel tankers of this guys. So they're the flying gas stations. But they are also the passenger carrier for the United States Air Force. And they fly hospitals. So they are also the flying hospitals. The person who runs that entire Air Mobility command, all those air lift resources, is General Maryann Miller, who you will be hearing from this morning. You'll also be hearing from an extraordinary. Leader, the first woman test pilot for the F35. Now what's an F35? She's flown a 10s she's flown ac F6 teens and now she's flying the F35. As a test pilot. The test pilots are the ones who not only have the hand eye coordination to be able to fly these super sophisticated, stealthy Current, the latest and the greatest of our fighter aircraft, but she also has to observe the characteristics of that aircraft in flight and be able to evaluate and make recommendations for things that are anomalies, things that it does a little differently or quirks that it has So that people so she can advise and change and save lives by making sure that anomalies are corrected and perfected. She before flying this F35. The first woman F35 test pilot, she flew F16 fighter of great fighters and before that [ INAUDIBLE ] Often referred to as Tank killers. If you're on the ground, your best friend is probably an A10. So an A10 is an attack, they are ground aircraft fighter aircraft or ground attack aircraft, F16, which are fighters, air to air and air to ground. But now F35 fighters of the most sophisticated and sell and stealthy. capabilities. So ladies would you join me in welcoming the extraordinary General Maryanne Miller and Major Rachael Winiecki [ APPLAUSE ] [ LAUGHTER ] Thank you It was you That was great look forward to seeing more of you > so, thank you very much everyone, this is a real honor and For those of you who don't know, and I know there are a lot of newcomers here. Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett has been a core member of the most powerful women community for well over a decade. So it was such an honor to have her here. And I sat between you last night at dinner and that was wonderful. And you came to our Decision- making breakout session this morning, and I'm gonna ask you a question about decision- making. But first of all, I am going to ask both of you, General Miller and Major Wyneski, how did you get here? [ LAUGH ] So I know we are short on time, so we will keep this short. [ LAUGH ] So I'll start and then I'll turn it over to Rachel. Actually smart town girl grew up in here to Ohio, went to high state university for athletic scholarship, one of six kids, big Catholic family. Parents couldn't afford to send us so my sister and I both got athletic scholarship. So that was a very good thing. Then I went off to pilot training was the fourth year of women to go through training. We couldn't fly fighters back then which was 30 years ago we could only fly the heavies so I got pulled back to be an instructor and I trained guys how to fly for four years and then went on to fly the heavies. Spent seven years on the active duty they said hey you're on a path to get promoted early and go all the way to the top and I said no I'm on a path to go my way, right. So I really jumped out of the active and I went to go fly float planes from Washington State Department of Fisheries. After getting my first check of $ 17, 000 a year. I thought, bad move. Let's go. [ LAUGH ] Let's go back into the active or let's go back into the Air Force. I went back into the reserves full time. So I've spent 38 years in our Air Force, 36 of those full time. Had an excursion to run a restaurant, own and run a restaurant five years. Cuz as a reservist, you can take time off of the full- time and do part- time. So I've flown floatplanes, I've owned a restaurant which is absolutely fabulous. So I get your life, not only this life, but I get your life, and it's a pleasure being here. So, and thank you for what you do You're an inspiration. Thank you. [ APPLAUSE ] Major Winiecki what's your story? Well, first of all, I wanted to thank fortune most powerful women, Miss Sellers, General Miller, for the invitation to speak with you today. And to Secretary Barrett for the kind remarks. I grew up in Wisconsin, went to school at the University of Minnesota and earned my commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps. From there I was fortunate enough to attend pilot training, and was selected to fly the A10 warthog as Secretary Barrett spoke with. I flew three operational assignments in that aircraft before, going to Test Pilot School. And out of there was assigned as an F sixteen developmental test pilot. Last year, I had the opportunity to join the F thirty- five enterprise and, have the opportunity to execute developmental test fielding advanced technologies for that aircraft. So Secretary Barrett just described the F 35 is the most sophisticated plane that describe the F 35. What is that is man so the F 35 is our newest fifth generation fighter aircraft and what makes the F 35 unique Is that we have a number of different sensors were independently developing and obtain a fair amount of information for the pilot, for the operator. But the great thing about the F35 is it capability were referred to as fusion. So the ability to take information from multiple sources, And derive that into a total battle space awareness for what's going on. Allowing our operators and our pilots the information in a timely and easily digestible manner so that they can execute their job safely .>> General Miller I want to drill down into your career a little bit more and that was a phenomenal summary of your life in a minute. [ LAUGH ] Kudos to you. [ LAUGH ] When you decided that you wanted to take your own career path, and you went to the Washington State Department of Fishing Fisheries explain to me what you were doing there. So flying amphibious float planes. So the Havilland Beaver, it's an amphibious which we'd show up at the hangar and we take off and I'd fly scientists up and down the estuaries and rivers within Washington State. We do salmon counts, so they had to same account so I take the airplane, get it up on it side. And they count the same and the first time I showed up they came with Dramamine patches all over their face. [ LAUGH ] And they said the guy that flies us all the time. He gets a sick every time. I go, you guys take the patches off, this is gonna be great. Never got him sick, it's all in the technique. So [ APPLAUSE ] So we go, we go catch the illegal gooey Duckers, we'd have to go after those guys who we'd set steaks on the sides of the river, and they would harvest at the harvest with inside when they went out the steaks we'd landed, we'd pull up beside the boat, get their diver up and take them to jail. So It was really a lot of policing from the air on the water. And then tell them where your restaurant was. Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. And what was the name of it? So it was our place restaurant garden patio because my business partner and I couldn't think of a name and we were within two weeks of opening and we had to make a sign and we're like, well, this is our place. So let's just call it our place. [ LAUGH ] [ LAUGH ] So yeah. So General Miller, Major Wynetski is the first female test pilot of the most sophisticated fighter plane, the F- 35. General Miller has several firsts. General Miller is the first reserve officer as secretary Barrett said male or female to become a four star general. She is also the first military pilot of any gender to become a four star general correct. first female Pilot. Thought, first female pilot, okay, I'm, yes, first female pilot to become a general? Become a four- star. A four- star general, and General Miller is the only female four- star general in America today. Among how many men? I would say roughly 30 total. Four stars? Mm- hm. Okay, okay, Our very service. Kudos to you. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] So I think the most powerful women, here with us today, would love to hear a little bit more about what exactly you do. So Gen. Miller, you actually manage Air Force One, right? Mm- hm. Yeah. Yeah, so- [ LAUGH ] That's power. [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] So I So I manage the airlift for the entire world, as secretary Bara had said. We do airomedic evacuation for the entire world. We do air refueling for the entire world. So a fighter does not go anywhere, a bomber does not go anywhere, big airplanes don't go anywhere if they need to go more than an hour's without a tanker to give them gas in the air. And I also run the in route structure for the entire global mobility system. So every country we land i run those operations and then we also support the Air Force. Every blue and white airplane out there that the Air Force has, we fly the president, the vice president and all the congressional members in the cabinet members so we support them. And how involved are you when wounded soldiers or To see soil; der come back from combat. Yeah, in fact, Fox News just did tree weeks ago, a story of a wounded soilder who got critically outside the wire, so outside the base, outside the wore. So, they were able to get him care right awaym bringing him to Boardroom and there was a line of people you probably saw maybe you saw in the fox news there was a line of Airmen to give him he needed 26 gallons of blood to get him back. So we he lost an arm and a leg and enroute bringing him back. We actually it was an 8000 mile journey. It was a 19 hour flight, it was 2 airing fullings, one on the other side of the Atlantic and one on this side of the Atlantic, and we took them all the way from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan all the way to San Antonio. And is alive, he's alive. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] And what about when humanitarian crises happen? natural disasters whatever what is your role? Right where the wings of hope so we call the great tales wings of hope to our enemies with the wings of strength or to our adversaries or to our friends where the wings of hope So, any humanitarian disaster around the world, you will see C17s and C5s and C130s and all the aircraft of air mobility command supporting that and bringing hope to devastation. Major Winetski, what makes a good test pilot? [ LAUGH ] Development was test specifically, our focus really is on risk management in decision making is we will attempt to mitigate risk as best as possible. But it's our responsibility as we go and evaluate the capabilities of these new platforms. To ensure that they are going to meet the needs of the customer and to ensure that the customer has the confidence in the system that they know they can go out and do their job and execute their mission. Through with that, I think it's the analytical process the scientific method, if you will. You're an engineer. Yes, ma'am. Of approaching a problem. And there's many of the speakers last night, and again this morning, that talked about the importance of timely and effective decision making. And I really think is that's where, not just a test pilot, cuz I'm just one small part Of the total team. We have a variety of engineers. Both on the developmental side as well as on the execution side that work with us daily to solve these challenges. But overall I would say risk management and decision making is critical to gathering that data that we need. To ensure we meet the needs of our customer. Who has a question? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Okay, we have two up here. Susan Pondegar, for both of you, what are the biggest obstacles or challenges that you faced As you continued your career. Honestly, for me I think it's balance. And I bet I speak to everyone in this room when I say that. My faith is critically important to me, and I spend a lot of time in that. So to do the job that I do now. As I was growing up as a general officer, I could balance. When I got in this position I thought, wow how am I going to continue to be able to do what I want to do in that Area and by grace. for me it's good. It's very good. Thank you .>> I would definitely say building your team through effective mentorship both on a aperior superior subordinate level. The importance of taking that time, that extra few seconds out of your day To stop by and ask someone and engage someone in talk with them and get them to understand where you're coming from or the needs of your customers or vice versa ask them what do they want to do. I think my sellers yesterday evening spoke of The mentorship opportunities that are gonna be available through Fortune. I think that's an excellent way to solve those types of challenges. We have just less than a minute left. Can you share, each of you, a brief piece of leadership advice That you tell young people? Humility is the most important thing you can learn as a leader. It's all about others, It's not about yourself. Flying is a great equalizer. [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ LAUGH ] Words To Live By. Thank you, General Miller. Thank you major Netscape. That was fantastic. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ UNKNOWN ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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General Maryanne Miller and Major Rachael WIniecki oin the MPW Summit.
