MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Team Moody hosted a weeklong Master Resiliency Training (MRT) for 39 Airmen and civilians Sept. 24-28, here.
The MRT challenged the participant’s ability to overcome challenges and adversity utilizing the four pillars of Comprehensive Airman Fitness which are mental, physical, social, and spiritual.
“(These are techniques) they can use on the job and at home,” said Otis West, lead MRT facilitator. “This helps them have better interaction with their family, their peers, their leaders and more importantly it helps them focus and be mindful in those moments…they’re under stress. It allows them to be more effective, more accurate in their thinking process so that when they make decisions they’re more structured, organized and sound. [Overall] when we’re making better decisions whether in our personal or professional lives we’re just going to perform better.”
Throughout the training, Airmen learned to apply the appropriate interpersonal skills such as identifying cognitive traps and balancing their thinking processes in any situation.
“They are force multipliers who have a unique set of skills that enhance the capability of our No.1 resource, which is Airmen and Moody is definitely stronger today because of the people who graduated,” said West. “The central piece is people [because] the Air Force is built on relationships. It takes a team. We talk about one team, one fight and this is one of those tools that allows us to be able to create a common bond that will inspire all of us to move towards the mission.”
While the trainers will now be certified to lead and train others, the facilitators emphasized that the road to leading a resilient life will first begin with the trainers making a difference in their everyday lives.
“You don’t deliver combat airpower by deploying aircraft you do it through the most valuable weapon system that we have, which is our people,” said Col. Justin Demarco, 23d Wing Vice commander. “Our people come first [and] if our folks can’t handle what’s in front of them then airplanes aren’t going to fly so what the (military resilience trainers) do is a big part of (taking care of our people).”