Assignments get new designation Published Jan. 9, 2009 By Wayne Crenshaw 78th Air Base Wing Public Affairs ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Air Force assignments that had fallen under the title "In Lieu Of," or ILO, are getting a new name. Those will now be called Joint Expeditionary Taskings. The assignments are those that would traditionally be done by the Army or some other branch, such as running supply convoys, but sometimes fall on the Air Force when the need arises. That led to the designation "In Lieu Of," as in "in lieu of the Army," said Bill Haffner, installation deployment officer with 78th Logistics Readiness Squadron. A memo written by Gen. William M. Fraser III, vice chief of staff of the Air Force Material Command, stated that the terminology would be changing last October. Mr. Haffner explained that the reason for the change is to promote the concept of joint operations as opposed to a term that implies one branch of the service working in place of the other. "We are not in lieu of anybody," he said. "We are joint and everybody is one team and one fight." In the memo General Fraser stated that the term Joint Expeditionary Tasking, or JET, was developed to better characterize the contributions Airmen make to the war effort. He said JET should now be used in place of ILO. "We believe this term has positive connotations and will promote the value we place on non-traditional missions as opposed to those perhaps associated with ILO and Ad Hoc," General Fraser said.