My guest today is CMSgt Kendell Clark, the current Wizard Chief and RAPCON Chief Controller at Kunsan Air Base. This is my second assignment with Chief Clark as we spent a year at Osan together. Chief Clark has been in the Air Force for 27 years and today he shared his insightful thoughts and experiences. He recognizes some of the ways that he has changed and became better throughout his years of Air Force and life experience. For anyone that doesn’t make it past the halfway point of this podcast, Chief Clark says that he welcomes and appreciates it when someone of any rank comes directly to him and tells him a problem with an organizational policy or within the facility.
He brings up his mentor, CMSgt Scott Rawlings a couple times during the podcast. Towards the end we try to uncover what made Chief Rawlings his top mentor. I conclude that it is the individual investment Chief Rawlings has towards select individuals. However, this is purely an assumption and I hope one day I can get a few minutes of Chief Rawlings’ time to ask him some questions and figure out what he attributes to be his best assets as a leader.
Chief Clark and I discuss his upbringing, golf, why people always root for underdogs, the direction he wants to see our career field go towards, benefits of having Korean Air Force air traffic controllers and United Stated States Marine Corps air traffic controllers train alongside the United States Air Force at Kunsan, and much more.
