Air Force World

摘要

New Deployment Model To improve unit cohesion, the Air Force is changing the way it deploys airmen under the Air and Space Expeditionary Force construct.Christened "AEF Next," the new system will deploy airmen alongside their squadron commander as an "airpower team," said Col. John Long, chief of USAF's war planning and policy division. However, "for most airmen, the differences will be minimal," he said. "We want to get the commander and immediate supervisors back into the deployment decision process. This will allow commanders to make key deployment decisions about their unit personnel rather than relying on functional managers atthe major command or headquarters Air Force level to make those decisions."