Air Expeditionary Force: Refining Deployment Practices

摘要

Lengthening the current 120-day AEF deployment cycle to a 210-day deployment cycle for Air Force officers while at the same time, reducing ILO taskings will enhance the Air Forces overall capability of providing global vigilance, reach and power to the battlefield. Deploying for longer periods of time, officers will be given a better opportunity to provide continuity to one another as they transition into and out of the area of operation (AOR). Additional time in the AOR will provide officers with a greater sense of the current operating environment and will enable them to lead their Airmen in support of GWoT more effectively upon their return to their in garrison assignments. Reducing the number of Army/Marine Corps ILO taskings filled by Airmen will allow Airmen to fill duties within their traditional deployed roles. In addition, by decreasing the amount of ILO taskings filled by Airmen, the Air Force will be able to use the funding that previously went to train Airmen supporting ILO taskings to modernize its aging air and space inventory, a priority on Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Norman Schwartz.