AEF LOGISTICS SCHOOL

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AEF LOGISTICS SCHOOL
Col Sue Caudill
ACC/LGQ Lt Col Steve Morani USAF
AEFLS/CO Sept
02
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OVERVIEW

• BACKGROUND
• GOAL
• TARGETED TRAINEES
• WHERE AND WHEN
• COURSE OUTLINE
• WAY AHEAD

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BACKGROUND

• CF00T-18
• Background CSAF Logistics Review
• Action Develop integration plan to incorporate
  logistics officer training at the Weapons School.
  Include desired goals, targeted trainees, and
  implementation timeline.
• OPR ACC
• OCR AF/IL, AF/XO, AF/DP, AF/XP, All MAJCOMs
• Suspense CORONA South 01 (February)

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BACKGROUND

• No centralized training focused on contingency
  logistics
• Lessons learned from Balkan conflicts confirmed
  experience/training void
• Need for a logistics integrator at the tactical
  level to improve wing capability
• Were an Expeditionary AF

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GOAL

• Create highly skilled operational logisticians
  competent in the following wartime skills
• Mobilization
• Deployment
• Beddown
• Sustainment
• Combat Employment
• Redeployment
• Reconstitution
• Command and Control
• Provide warfighting commander with special
  expertise in the application of expeditionary
  logistics
• Leverage effects-based logistics to improve
  combat capability

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TARGETED TRAINEES

• Captain
• Maximum 9 years TAFCSD
• Minimum 3 years in primary AFSC at operational
  (flying) Wing
• Must have at least one year Aircraft Maintenance
  or Munitions experience and one year Logistics
  Readiness (21S/T/G) experience
• SOS completed

ANG/AFR - Major
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Student Selection Process

• Modeled after AFI 11- 415, Weapons and Tactics
  Prgm
• HQ ACC/LG has overall responsibility for the
  AEFLS
• ACC/LGQ board president, plus one 0-5 from AF/IL,
  each MAJCOM/LG and AEFLS/CO will comprise the
  selection board
• - ARC has own selection board (1 student per
  class)

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Student Selection Process

• Nomination packages will meet AEFLS criteria and
  be submitted by Wing/CCs to ACC/LG cc to
  MAJCOM/LG
• - IAW timelines in selection board message
• - Multiple Wing nominees will be prioritized
  by Wing/CC
• - ACC/LG is the waiver authority
• - Best Qualified
• Two AEFLS selection boards per year, each
  approximately 4-5 months prior to AEFLS class
  start date
• - First board scheduled for 24 Sept 02

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WHERE

• Beddown at Nellis AFB, NV
• Course is planned for 5 months
• Twelve students per class/two classes per year
• 12 instructor cadre 8 active duty/4 contractors
• Go to logistics training centers of excellence
• Air Mobility Warfare Center
• Air Force Combat Ammunitions Center
• Hurlburt Field AFSOC/C2TIG
• Follow-on assignment aircraft squadron
  maintenance officer leadership position 3yr
  ADSC

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ORGANIZATION
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IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE
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CURRICULUM

• Core curriculum objectives developed
• Coordinated with MAJCOMs
• Realigned to match AF Doctrine development
• Lesson Planning
• 95 academic days 700 classroom hrs and 500 PST
  hrs
• Student presentations
• SIPRNET/NIPRNET connectivity
• Hands-on application through out
• Leadership scenarios
• Electronic media production
• Academic links

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COURSE OUTLINE
1. Introduction (1.5 weeks) - Instructor
Training
2. Readying the Force (4 weeks) - Historical
and doctrinal context - Logistics within
joint/AF structure - Unit readiness to include
fleet health - Joint Operational Planning
Execution System
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COURSE OUTLINE
3. Preparing the Battlespace (2.5 wks) - Crisis
response planning - Base support and
expeditionary site planning - Unit
readiness to include generation planning -
Mobilization process - Mobilization/Aircraft
Generation execution
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COURSE OUTLINE
4. Positioning the Force (4.5 wks) - Global
Mobility and Asset Visibility - Reception,
Staging, Onward Movement Integration -
Beddown and Agile Combat Support functions
- Air Mobility Warfare Center -- Phoenix
Readiness
5. Employing and Sustaining the Force (2.5 wks) -
Command Control Joint Air Space C2
Course - Logistics in combat employment and
combat sortie generation - IRON
FLAG/AFCOMAC
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COURSE OUTLINE
6. Recovering the Force (1.5 Wks) -
Redeployment and Reconstitution - Relief in
place operations
7. Capstone (2.5 Wks) - Mission Employment
Exercise - Student paper presentations -
Graduation
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THE WAY AHEAD

• CORONA South01 said press as planned
• Contractor developed core curriculum complete
• - Air Staff/MAJCOM feedback incorporated
• Key Nellis SATAF Milestones
• - Interim facility renovated
• - Permanent facility contract awardedstart
  date Sept 02
• - OCR completed awaiting approval
• - Lesson planning/course validation in
  progress
• - MOAs with TDY training locations in work
• Student Nomination Package/Selection Board
• Policy pending

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ACC VISION

• 21A/21M vs. 21R training
• - New combat wing structure separates
  logistics
• functions
• Role of AEFLS graduate
• - Instructor, Advisor, Liaison
• D prefix position identification

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SUMMARY

• On track for FY 03 implementation
• ACC POCs
• Maj Glenn Roberts, ACC/LGQT, 574-3688
• Mr. Carl Cafiero, Synergy, Inc, ACC/LGQT,
  574-4830
• AEFLS Website
• https//wwwmil.nellis.af.mil/units/aefls/

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BACKUP SLIDES

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Sample Scenario
Capt Courageous has deployed with an ADVON team
to bare-base X. Others at bare-base X with Capt
Courageous include a RED HORSE team, a
contracting officer, and a TALCE. In 24 hours,
12 F-16 aircraft will arrive. What should Capt
Courageous do?
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PROGRAMMING/FUNDING
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WHAT THEY WILL DO

• Mobilization Gen A/C, Marshal Cargo, Personnel,
  ADVON, Force Tailoring
• Deployment Enroute support, ITV, TAV
• Beddown Reception, BSP, Comm / Connectivity,
  Space Support, A/C Reception, Force Protection,
  A/C Parking / Turning, Munitions, POL, HOTS /
  COTS / POTTIES
• Sustainment Reachback (RSS), Contracting, Fleet
  Health, Host Nation Support, Re-Supply, WWX,
  Wholesale Logistics, Munitions Management, CLSS,
  Theater Distribution, Contractor Support

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WHAT THEY WILL DO

• Combat Employment Sortie Gen, Fleet Management,
  Munitions Management, Bomb B/M POL Distribution
  and Resupply Management, ATSO, ABDR (CLSS) ATO
  Development
• Redeployment Planning Process, Personnel
  requirements, Incremental Planning, Cargo
  Management, Enroute Support, ITV,
  Bioenvironmental concerns, base
  teardown/turn-over, asset management
• Reconstitution Fleet management,
  OPS/PERS/TEMPO, Training (ancillary/qualification)
  , Rebuild Kits (RSPs)
• Command and Control RSS, CIRF, AOC, DRMBFOR,
  AFFOR/CSC, Theater Distribution Center

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TARGETED TRAINEES SELECTION
DISCRIMINATORS

• Functional lead on a deployment
• Operational Maintenance Experience
• Flight line Maintenance Experience
• Leadership Qualities
• Officership

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CADRE

• Entire staff hand-picked
• Lt Col Steve Morani 21A/M
• Maj Chad Clifton 21T/A
• Maj Matt Venzke 21A/S/M
• Maj Andy Hey 21S/G
• Maj Dave Wiesner 21A
• Capt John Fountain 21A
• Capt Trace Steyaert 21G
• Capt Dan Dunn 64P
• 4 Contract instructors all prior AF
  logisticians
• Operational experience

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COURSE REVIEW
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COURSE REVIEW (cont.)