LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark -- Leaders from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, gathered with members of the 711th Human Performance Wing July 26-27, 2018, to discuss possible changes to Air Force Form 469 Duty Limiting Condition and the processes surrounding it.
The meetings were part of an effort to begin restructuring the form to improve both its effectiveness in sharing information and in aiding the patients whose information it contains.
“The AF Form 469 is a duty-limiting form,” said U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Brandy Hite, 19th Maintenance Squadron first sergeant. “It’s meant to describe what an individual can and cannot do for a physical fitness test. It’s also for mobility and duty restrictions. It lets us know what individuals can do based on an illness or injury.”
The meeting allowed an in-depth discussion about what processes are involved in receiving an AF Form 469 and how to improve them.
“The Base Operational Medicine Clinic initiative is the effort to make Air Force medicine a high reliability operation,” said Tech. Sgt. Sarah McCabe, 711th Human Performance Wing flight medicine technician. “This is just the first stage of that process of working on the form itself and the process of generating that form.”
Team Little Rock members considered changes to the AF Form 469 processes as well as what content they would like to see on the form itself.
“The feedback we’ve received is that the form can be unclear as far as how it affects Airmen’s duties,” McCabe said. “We’re expecting to standardize the form and make the information it provides more consistent.”
After discussing and reviewing every aspect of the AF Form 469, Little Rock Airmen left the meeting confident they made a difference for the Airmen in their charge and the U.S. Air Force as a whole.
“I think we’ll end up seeing changes in the outline of the form and the accuracy of the information it conveys, as well as changes in the process of receiving the form itself after all of this is over,” Hite said. “Everyone was very open-minded and I was very glad to be a part of this.”