How are joint issues being worked; e.g., realignments?
There is greater emphasis on finding joint solutions. * The joint cross service groups look for joint basing/training/operations opportunities where they add military value. * They respond directly to secretary of defense their recommendations have equal weight as the services this time. * There is senior Air Force representation on joint cross service groups. The Infrastructure Steering Group met every three weeks, as a general rule. The group consists of service assistant secretaries for installations and environment and service vice chiefs. The group reviewed joint cross service group and service recommendations before they went to the secretary of defense. Throughout the joint action scenario team process, 114 scenarios were considered resulting in 28 candidate recommendations proposed to the secretary of defense.
