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MSGT. ISRAEL DEL TORO Says “The Sobs” Who Injured Him Don’T Determine His Future INSIDE: Training for Mobility p. 20 | A New Jet Trainer? p. 34 | The Rise of Special Tactics p. 40 on my own terms MSGT. ISRAEL DEL TORO says “the SOBs” who injured him don’t determine his future. He does. p. 26 December 2017 $8 Published by the Air Force Association B:8.375” T:8.125” S:7.375” B:11.125” S:10.125” T:10.875” BOEING JSTARS WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH RISK MUST BE LOW PROVEN IN COMBAT Critical JSTARS systems are flying today on the P-8, AEW&C, and C-40. Aerial refueling, self-defense, battle management, and power systems are integrated from current, combat-proven commercial derivative platforms, ensuring a low-risk program. PROVEN RELIABILITY The 737 has a 99.7% mission capability rate. Its worldwide base of over 9,000 aircraft ensures that JSTARS will be there when it’s needed. PROVEN AFFORDABILITY The 737 is proven as the lowest-cost aircraft in the JSTARS competition to own and operate. 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In war zones and on deployments, equip, and certify forces. a joint environment is the norm. In a little over a year, 9th Air Force should have a team “ready Organizationally, however, the Air Force sometimes operates to command and control a JTF or joint operation,” he said in an as if the “purple” world were a mysterious parallel universe. interview, and “handle any mission that is given to us.” In the worst-case scenarios, airmen aren’t educated about or “This is another arrow in the quiver of the joint force,” Zobrist trained for their joint assignments, the service is unprepared said. “Given the importance air operations have played in all to lead multiservice teams, USAF doesn’t know what to do of the operations over the last 20 years, it’s helpful for the US with its joint experience, and airpower winds up marginalized. military leadership … to have a variety of organizational spe - The Air Force is moving to fix this. Gen. David L. Goldfein, cialties and backgrounds do command and control.” Chief of Staff, has made “strengthening joint leaders and teams” The goal is for planners to say, “Ninth Air Force: I know them, one of his three primary focus areas. This includes rebuilding they participated in all these exercises, they’re really good at USAF’s ability to lead joint task forces (JTFs). what they do, they bring this unique capability. … We’re going “If you look around the globe today you can see upwards of to pick them,” Zobrist explained. 20 JTFs, … more if you count the combined joint task forces,” Running parallel with the JTF effort are several personnel Goldfein noted at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in management needs. USAF needs airmen ready for joint work September. at every stage of their careers; personnel trained for these USAF typically does not lead these task forces. The Army, assignments; and to reward them with logical follow-on as - which has built JTF leadership into its organization, does. signments and promotions. This leaves the National Command Authority with limited options when a crisis erupts. “Historically, JTFs stand up within Airmen need to be ready for “purple” days or weeks of a crisis with little fanfare or warning,” Gold - fein noted in a 2016 paper on joint leadership. “While intended assignments. to exist only for the duration of the crisis, they often become enduring.” For example, the Air Force should educate airmen on joint When the Army is the entity certified to lead a US response, language and processes beginning in basic training, continuing well, the Army is going to lead the task force. Often this makes throughout their careers, said Maj. Gen. Brian M. Killough, di - sense, but what if an emergency requires an airpower-inten - rector of strategic plans on the Air Staff and head of Goldfein’s sive response? The Army will lead that, too. The Army keeps joint leaders task force. elements of its 82nd Airborne Division prepared to lead JTFs The Air Force’s culture and organizational stovepipes can and is regularly called upon for that purpose. penalize airmen who serve in purple assignments. “In the Goldfein has tasked 9th Air Force at Shaw AFB, S.C., with past, there have been airmen who have gone out into these joint assignments, and their core function has ‘forgotten about them’ or they have been disadvantaged when they came back,” Killough explained in an interview.
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