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Next Conn. Assistant Adjutant General - Air promoted to Brigadier General

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  • By Tech. Sgt. Melissa E. Chatham
  • Air National Guard Special Staff Public Affairs
The next Assistant Adjutant General - Air for the state of Connecticut was promoted to Brigadier General Wednesday at the Air National Guard Readiness Center.

Brig. Gen. Jon Mott, the special assistant to the ANGRC commander, was recently appointed as the next Connecticut Air Adjutant General and is scheduled to take command of the Connecticut ANG mid-July.

"In my new position as the Connecticut Air Adjutant General, I will be able to use everything I've learned on the National Guard Bureau staff to better prepare our state for its new aircraft and mission," said Mott.

As the 201st Mission Support Group commander and Special Assistant to the ANGRC commander, Brig. Gen. Mott ran the day-to-day operations of the ANGRC. He assisted the ANG Director in formulating, developing, and coordinating all policies, plans, and programs affecting more than 106,000 Guardsmen in units throughout the U.S., the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. He has also worked with Congressional members, Department of Defense officials and high-ranking U.S. and foreign dignitaries.

"It's very important to build relationships between the state, the ANG, active duty, and Capitol Hill because they are all interrelated," said Mott. "I will miss the ANGRC, but I plan to continue building relationships and improving upon processes as the Connecticut Air Adjutant General."

Mott reorganized various components of the ANGRC staff and added the Operational Support and Compliance Directorate, now concentrated on operating the ANGRC.

"He streamlined and combined ANG workflow with the ANG Director's workflow, added protocol and other responsibilities to this organization," said Brig. Gen. Brian Neal, the ANGRC commander. "While transparent to most of the ANGRC, these changes will allow us to operate much more smoothly and be able to meet, much more efficiently and quickly, the new requirements for the National Guard now that the Chief of the National Guard Bureau has a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff."

Mott also made improvements to the ANG modernization book processes, which lists the equipment approved for National Guard and Reserve Equipment Appropriation spending. He was able to meet the new mandate by Congress requiring stricter obligation rates for NGREA.

"As Special Assistant, he was critical to the creation of the operational expeditionary working group, NGREA and finalizing the re-org here at the ANGRC," said Neal.

During the promotion ceremony, Mott was award the Legion of Merit first oak leaf cluster. The Legion of Merit is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. It is one of only two U.S. military decorations to be issued as a neck order, the other being the Medal of Honor, and the only decoration that may be issued in award degrees much like an order of chivalry or certain orders of merit.

After receiving the Legion of Merit, Mott expressed that he could not have had such success without the help and support of the ANGRC staff and he will miss working here.

"It has been an honor and a privilege to have served with so many great airmen here at the Readiness Center and I look forward to continuing to work with them in my new position," said Mott.