The Air Expeditionary Force: Refining Deployment Practices

Abstract

Lengthening the current 120-day AEF deployment cycle to a 210-day deployment cycle for Air Force officers while at the same time, reducing ILO taskings will enhance the Air Forces overall capability of providing global vigilance, reach and power to the battlefield. Deploying for longer periods of time, officers will be given a better opportunity to provide continuity to one another as they transition into and out of the area of operation (AOR). Additional time in the AOR will provide officers with a greater sense of the current operating environment and will enable them to lead their Airmen in support of GWoT more effectively upon their return to their in garrison assignments. Reducing the number of Army/Marine Corps ILO taskings filled by Airmen will allow Airmen to fill duties within their traditional deployed roles. In addition, by decreasing the amount of ILO taskings filled by Airmen, the Air Force will be able to use the funding that previously went to train Airmen supporting ILO taskings to modernize its aging air and space inventory, a priority on Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Norman Schwartz.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 20, 2009
Accession Number
ADA511281

Entities

People

  • K. P. Malloy

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Cold War
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Deployment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Information Operations
  • International Organizations
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Police
  • Personnel Management
  • Refining
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Mathematics or Statistics

Technology Areas

  • Space