AIR AND SPACE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

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AIR AND SPACE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
C/2d Lt Patrick Ng
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Overview

• Background
• The Air and Space Expeditionary Force
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Summary
• Questions

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Cold War Influence
Containment
to Engagement
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A New Challenge
Cold War Air Force
21st Century Air Force
Engagement
Containment
1/3 Less People
Garrison state -- robust basing and manning
2/3 Less Overseas Basing
Forward Basing
Austere operating bases with limited
infrastructure
Robust Infrastructure
4 times more deployments
Operating from bases with large infrastructures
On Average 25,000 personnel and over 220 Aircraft
deployed
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Overseas Basing During The Cold War
Bitburg Sembach Hahn
Spangdahlem Hessishe-Oldendorf
Tempelhof Lindsey Wuescheim Ramstein
Zweibruecken Rhein Main
Thule
Alconbury Lakenheath Bentwaters Mildenhall Chicksa
nds Molesworth Croughton Upper Heyford Fairford W
ethersfield Greenham Common Woodbridge High
Wycombe
Soesterberg Florennes
Izmir Ankara Incirlik Pirinclik
Misawa Yokota
Osan Kunsan
Lajes Field Zaragoza Torrejon Moron
Iraklion Hellenikon
Kadena
Dhahran
Clark
Aviano San Vito Comiso
Howard Albrook
Andersen
Cold War Air Force - Containment Strategy
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Overseas Basing Today 66 Reduction
Spangdahlem Ramstein
Thule
Lakenheath Mildenhall Molesworth Croughton



Incirlik
Misawa Yokota
Osan Kunsan
Lajes Field

Kadena
Aviano

Andersen
Post Cold War Reduced force structure and fewer
forward locations
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From the Cold War to Meeting Todays National
Security Needs
Geilenkirchen Rhein Main Einsiedlerhof
Brize Norton Fairford
Taszar
Tuzla
Istres
Akrotiri
Rota Moron
Budapest
Brindisi Rimini Cervia Gioia Del
Colle Sigonella Falconra/Ancona
Tirana
Thessaloniki
Curucao Aruba
Al Jabar Shaikh Isa Camp Doha Ali Al Salem Taif
Al Dahfra Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan
Manta
Diego Garcia
21st Century Air Force Engagement Requires
TEMPORARY PERMANENT basing
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Impacts on the Force

• Increased days away from home
• When not deployed, working extra shifts to make
  up for those who are
• OPTEMPO not evenly distributed across the force
• Limited predictability and stability
• Recruiting and Retention Issues
• Downward trend in readiness indicators

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AEF
Concept for how the AF is organized, trained,
equipped to deploy and sustain our military
operations oversees.

• Force management tool
• Total Force (Active, Reserve and Guard) divided
  in to 10 force packages (AEFs)
• Each AEF 150 aircraft and 10K to 25K personal.
• One AEF pair (2 AEF) are vulnerable to deployment
  in any given 120 day period.

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AEF Cycle
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AEF Force Structure

• COMAFFOR - Commander of USAF forces

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Unified Combatant Command

• 5 Geographic Commands
• U.S. Central, European, Pacific, Northern, and
  Southern Commands
• U.S. Africa Command (approved and 2008
  operational)
• 4 Functional Commands
• U.S. Joint Forces, Special Operations, Strategic,
  and Transportation Commands

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AOR
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Take Away Points

• AEF rotations allow us to
• Manage resources better
• Be responsive to combatant commanders airpower
  needs
• Take care of our people -- Predictability and
  Stability
• Max 120 days/year deployed
• Some critically manned AFSCs still heavily taxed

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Summary

• Background
• AEF
• U.S. Military Combatant Commands

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Questions?