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Force Development will enable us to focus on each individual by emphasizing our common Airman culture…Every aspect of Force Development has one common goal: To continue developing professional Airmen who instinctively leverage their respective strengths together. We intend to develop leaders who motivate teams, mentor subordinates, and train successors. General John P. Jumper Chief of Staff of the Air Force, 2002

Overview • • • What is Force Development (FD) Levels of Officer Development FD Through the Assignment Process FD Through Education and Training Air Force Education and Training Guiding Principles Tactical-level Education and Guiding Principles Opportunities for Developmental Education Role of the Promotion System Selection Boards Additional Self-Development

What is Force Development? It is the series of experiences and challenges, combined with education and training opportunities that produce Air Force leadership

Objectives of Officer FD • Deliberately connect all training and education opportunities to assignment experiences to build competencies that best meet Air Force needs in and across career fields. • Purposefully connect individuals’ goals with Air Force needs to best achieve both. • Ensure Air Force personnel-directed decision processes invest the right education, training and experience in the right officers at the right time. • Enhance leader and officer understanding of their roles in officer development, using their inputs in the assignment process and providing feedback to inform and shape expectations.

Levels of Officer FD • Tactical level – Lieutenants and captains – Master primary duty skills – Serve as AF’s technicians and specialists – Lean about yourself and your leadership skills – Typically represented by flight and some squadron command opportunities

Levels of Officer FD • Operational level – Majors and Lieutenant Colonels – Understands how we use people/teams to accomplish our missions – Transition from being a specialist to person who integrates multiple specialists to accomplish a task – Possess good understanding of your personal leadership strengths/weaknesses and apply that knowledge to directing/leading teams – Squadron Commander; Division/Branch Chief assignments

Levels of Officer FD • Strategic level – Colonels and General Officers – Possess deep understanding of AF missions and how operational capabilities and Airmen are integrated to accomplish our missions – Understands how AF works in joint and multinational environments – Transitions from leading teams of people with missions to leading very complex organizations – Span of influence can touch entire MAJCOMs, AF, Do. D and theatres of war

FD Through the Assignment Process Informal Feedback Reviews the ODP Dev Feedback Assignment Team Member Completes the Officer Development Plan (ODP) Development Team Reviews the ODP Member’s Chain of Command Reviews ODP

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Education & Training Guiding Principles – – – – Build skill set expertise Prepare for change Create depth of experience Train to mission needs Train like we fight Make training and education available Validate education and training through war games and exercises

Tactical-level Education & Training Guiding Principles – – – Build Air Force cultural awareness Bond Airmen to core values Build skill competence Build expeditionary expertise Build joint and coalition knowledge Build expertise through mentoring

Opportunities for Developmental Education Requirements / Inventory 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 Requirement BDE window IDE window 40 SDE window 30 20 10 Operational Tactical 10 BDE (Tactical): Example: ASBC SOS AFIP AFIT 15 Strategic 20 IDE (Operational): DE Boarded events/education Example: ACSC JMIC NPS AF-Sponsored AADs 30 SDE (Strategic): Received near or at the senior officer ranks DE Boarded events/education Examples: AWC NWC ICAF

Developmental Education Levels • Basic Developmental Education (BDE) – Designed for lieutenants and captains (Years 1 -10) – Includes both Air and Space Basic Course (ASBC) which is designed for second lieutenants and Squadron Officer School (SOS) for captains

Developmental Education Levels -continued • Intermediate Developmental Education (IDE) – Designed for majors and lieutenant colonels (Years 11 -16) – Includes Air Command Staff College (and sister service Command Staff Colleges), Joint Military Intelligence College (JMIC), Education With Industry (EWI) and some opportunities to gain advanced degrees through the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)

Developmental Education Levels -continued • Senior Developmental Education (SDE) – Designed for lieutenant colonels and colonels (Years 17 -21) – Includes Air War College (AWC), National War College (NWC), Industrial College of the Air Force (ICAF), Education With Industry (EWI) and executive-level leadership/management programs at Harvard University, Georgetown University, Stanford University, and University of Pennsylvania

Role of the Promotion System The objective of the officer promotion system is to select officers for advancement who have clearly demonstrated the potential to serve in more demanding leadership positions with the Air Force hierarchy. The promotion process ensures we have enough officers of the desired quality in the proper grades, to carry out the Air Force mission.

Promotion Criteria • Officers are promoted on the principle of “the whole-person” – Job performance-- as documented in PRFs, OPRs, training reports & letters of evaluation – Job responsibility– scope of responsibility, exposure, resources managed – Leadership in command & staff positions – Breadth & depth of experience– assignments, levels of assignments, & job variety – Academic and Professional Military Education – appropriate level, career field relevance, & how the education improves duty performance – Specific achievements – awards, decorations, quarter/annual awards, etc.

Promotion Criteria -continued • Equal opportunity for all officers/#s determined by Congress • You can be promoted ‘below the zone (BTZ)’ (early) – BTZ opportunity begins with promotion to lieutenant colonel • 2 Lts & captains are promoted on a fully qualified basis – Unless you mess up and get into trouble, 2 Lts will be promoted to 1 Lt, two years after commissioning/1 Lts to captain two years later (4 -year point)

Selection Boards • Comprised of highly qualified senior officers from across the AF who mirror, as closely as possible, the offices eligible for promotion, e. g. aeronautical rating/career fields/minorities/women • Typically in session 1 to 2 weeks • Prior to release, results must be approved by – – – HQ Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Secretary of the Air Force Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, President of the United States for approval by the Senate • Results typically released 6 to 8 weeks after board concludes

What does the Selection Board see in your Promotion Folder? • • • Officer Performance Reports (OPRs) and Training Reports (TRs) Officer Selection Brief (OSB) Citations for U. S. Decorations Specialty Board Certification Courts-Martial orders containing or reflecting approved findings of guilt Letters to the board from eligible officers Letters pertaining to non-attendance, or ineligibility for Professional Military Education (PME) schools Letter of Not Qualified for Promotion Action from the commander Oral 368 Nonjudicial Punishment (Air Force Form 368) Nonjudicial Punishment Administration (Air Force Form 307 x Series) Notice Form 366 of Intent to Vacate or Suspend Nonjudicial Punishment (Air Force Form 366)

CSAF Reading List • CATEGORY I. History of the Air Force from its beginning through its major transformations as an institution. – Atkinson, Rick, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 -1943, (Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ). 2002. *** – Boyne, Walter J. , Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the United States Air Force 1947 -1997 (St. Martin’s Press). 1997. – Copp, De. Witt S. , Frank M. Andrews, Marshall’s Airman, (Air Force History and Museums Program). 2003. – Lambeth, Benjamin S. , The Transformation of American Air Power, (Cornell University Press). 2000. – Perret, Geoffrey, Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II, (Random House). 1993. – *** Added Spring 2004

CSAF Reading List • CATEGORY II. Insight into ongoing conflicts and the frictions that can produce conflicts in the future. – Huntington, Samuel P. , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Simon and Schuster). 1997. – Kagan, Robert, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ). 2003. *** – Lewis, Bernard, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, (The Modern Library). 2003. – Margolis, Eric S. , War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet, (Routledge). 2001. – Meyer, Karl E. , and Shareen Blair Brysac, Tournament of Shadows, The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia, (Counterpoint). 1999. – Yergin, Daniel, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, (Simon and Schuster). 1990. *** Added Spring 2004

CSAF Reading List • CATEGORY III. Organization, leadership, and success stories holding lessons for the present and future. – Creech, Wilbur L. , The Five Pillars of TQM: How to Make Total Quality Management Work for You, (Truman Talley Books/Dutton). 1994. – Puryear, Edgar F. , American Generalship Character is Everything: The Art of Command, (Presidio Press). 2000

CSAF Reading List • CATEGORY IV. Lessons emerging from recent conflicts and the preparation for them. – Benjamin, Dan. , Simon Steve, & Benjamin Daniel, The Age of Sacred Terror, (Random House, Inc. ). 2003. *** – Clancy, Tom, with General Chuck Horner (US Air Force Ret. ), Every Man a Tiger, (G. B. Putnam’s Sons). 1999. – Cohen, Eliot A. , Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime, (The Free Press). 2002. – Kitfield, James, Prodigal Soldiers, (Simon and Schuster). 1995. ** List can be found at: http: //www. af. mil/csafreading/ *** Added Spring 2004

• • • Summary Definition of Force Development (FD) FD Through the Assignment Process FD Through Education and Training Air Force Education and Training Guiding Principles Tactical-level Education and Guiding Principles Opportunities for Developmental Education Role of the Officer Evaluation System Role of the Promotion System Selection Boards Additional Self-Development