Chief Master Sgt Jameson joins Liberty Talks to speak on his priorities as the new command chief for the 48th Fighter Wing.

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Welcome to Liberty Talks. Today, we have Chief Master Sergeant Jameson, the new command chief of RAF Lakenheath. Chief, thank you for joining us today. How you doing?

I’m doing awesome. It’s my pleasure to be here and thank you all for coming out and doing this. This is awesome.

Yeah. Thank you for joining us. We’re happy to have you here at the Liberty Wing. Just have a couple of questions for you. I was wondering if you can tell us a little bit about yourself.

Yeah, so I’ve been in the Air Force for 26 years. I was born, raised mostly in Kansas City, Missouri. Came in the Air Force when I was 18. Again, going on 26 years and loving every minute of it. It’s still fun. It’s still a blast getting out and spending time with our Airmen and seeing just the amazing things they do every day.

Where were you at before the Liberty Wing?

So before Liberty Wing, I was the Command Chief of the 80th Flying Training Wing, so there at Sheppard Air Force Base, the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program, training all the newest pilots for the NATO alliance.

Now that you’re here at the Liberty Wing, can you tell me what your priorities are?

Absolutely. So my priorities are not gonna differ that much from the boss’s. So as everybody knows, the boss’s priorities are readiness, F-35 and strengthen the community. As a command chief, mostly my role’s gonna be in the strengthen community and readiness piece of it, and we’re gonna bring all the team together with our civilian community, our on-base community, all our helping agencies and build some better Airmen, build Lakenheath into the place to be, where everyone wants to be and as we do that, our readiness will just simply increase. When F-35s come here, it’ll be seamless.

Chief, now that you’re here at the Liberty Wing, what excites you about being here?

Man, the mission here at Lakenheath is just, it’s awesome. You hear the F-15s take off every day and you know that’s the sound of freedom and you know that what we do matters, and when we sit across the wing and we look at all the things our Airmen do, we know that it’s all because we matter. We gotta get those jets off the ground, we gotta defend the region if called upon to do it, we gotta push air power forward and in the end, we gotta own the skies.

What can Airmen here on base expect from you as a command chief?

So you gotta expect me to be excited about our mission. You can expect me to be excited about getting out and helping you. I will fix as many problems as I can. The one thing I ask is if you got ’em, bring ’em to us. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been into a shop just talking and engaging with Airmen and ask ’em, “Hey, do you have everything you need? “Is there anything I can help you with?” and they’re like, “No, Chief, we’re good. We’re good.” And an hour later, I’ll be in a meeting and their boss or command or someone will be like, “Hey, this shop really could use X, Y or Z,” but the Airmen didn’t tell me that. It was someone else. So as I’m out and about, if you see me, stop me. Tell me, “Hey, Chief, we really could use…” whatever it is or “Hey, we’d like to see this come,” or “Hey, have y’all thought about this?” ‘Cause me and the boss are excited about getting out and helping Lakenheath and the community and our Airmen build this into something that everyone just loves and they never wanna leave.

Chief, thank you so much for joining us today. Had a great time chatting with you. We’re excited to have you here at the Liberty Wing and we can’t wait to see you (indistinct).

Thank you. Thanks for coming, and I’m excited to be here. And to all the Airmen, seriously, hit me up. I’m here to help you all. I work for you. But thanks for coming over. It was awesome.

Absolutely. Thanks again.