Air Force Resilience

Prevention Tools

Tools to build unit resilience and prevent crisis.

Members of the 633rd Security Forces Squadron, Air Force Office of Special Investigation and Naval Criminal Investigative Services conduct a ruck march in memory of joint patrol team Hustler 6 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 21, 2018.

Intervention Tools

Tools for leading high-risk Airmen and navigating through a crisis.

Master Sgt. Leigh Weigold, 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron section chief of plans and programs, fires her weapon at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, March 8, 2019. As the largest career field in the Air Force, it’s the job of Security Forces to protect, defend and fight to enable U.S. Air Force, Joint and Coalition missions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mya M. Crosby)

Postvention Tools

Tools for reintegration and leading after a crisis.

ASAB utilizes IHAT mission to increase efficiency

Situational Exercises

Exercises that provide the opportunity for Leaders to test their knowledge, rehearse their actions, and refine contingency plans so they are better prepared to lead in times of crisis.

Airman 1st Class Jamere Morris, 39th Maintenance Squadron crew chief, fastens a sling to the landing gear of an F-4 Phantom II during a lift March 8, 2019, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey.

Task Force True North

Resilience News

Directorate of Air Force Resilience April 8, 2019

Jiri Crowder teaching a class about AF SAPR Leadership

As the new Deputy Director of Air Force Resilience, Jiri Crowder got a chance to share her expertise and meet with students at the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Victim Advocate (SAPR VA) training at Maxwell Air Force Base less than three weeks after joining the Pentagon office. She told the 22 trainees in attendance that the Air Force is not only committed to improving its response and support for victims of sexual assault, but it is heavily investing in new measures to prevent sexual violence, including an innovative program to identify potential serial offenders.

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Wingman Behind "Wingmen Connect" Shares Her Story

April 8, 2019 By her own account, Staff Sgt. Shalese Tonks (31st Intelligence Squadron, NCOIC, Joint Operations) is an open book. Like most people, she has a history. But the difference between Tonks and many of her fellow Airmen is that she is prepared to put it all out there, if it will help another one of her fellow Wingmen.

“When I say I’m an empath, I’m taking that to a pretty extreme degree,” said Tonks. “I’ve had people who have come up to me describing things that I have never in my life felt, and I’ve still been able to understand to some degree what they’re feeling.”

Tonks’ ability to instantly connect with people who are troubled or going through difficult times draws upon her own personal life experience. She said members of her family struggled with mental illness. Some were emotionally abusive and narcissistic. One of her aunts, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, stole a car then drove it over the state line before turning herself in for grand theft auto. Tonks admits to suffering from generalized anxiety, and her husband was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder while they were living in London. Her life is not only an open book, it’s a page turner.

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