The Air Force has taken a significant step forward in its effort to mold its Active Duty, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve airmen into a Total Force team, merging the previously separate training programs that commission new officers for the three components. The first class combining officer candidates from all three components formed at the Air Force Officer Training School, Maxwell AFB, Ala., in January and is scheduled to conclude with a commissioning ceremony March 13 after eight weeks of sharing the same demanding regime of mental and physical training and character development. That class will be the start of a unifying process that Col. Scott M. Lockwood, OTS commandant, calls "one furnace, one metal."
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