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38P Block VI

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The Total Force Concept will provide these benefits:
Create efficiencies, encourage retention of valuable human capital, and, above all, increase Air Force combat capabilities
Total Force includes:
Regular Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve military personnel, US Air Force military retired members, US Air Force civilian personnel (including foreign national direct and indirect-hire, as well as non-appropriated fund employees), contract staff, and host-nation support personnel.
Joint Force
A general term applied to a force composed of significant elements, assigned or attached, of two or more military departments operating under a single commander.
Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)
This may be created to provide a framework and detailed procedures for joint interoperability.
Combined Force Concept
A general term applied to operations undertaken with more than one country.
Readiness Capabilities: Four FSS Core Functions
Manpower, Personnel, Services, Education & Training
Readiness Capabilities: Three FSS Enabling Functions
Leadership, Equal Opportunity (EO), Airmen & Family Readiness
Protocol
Provides the ability to plan, schedule, coordinate and conduct functions such as ceremonies, conferences, social events, and visits.
Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR)
Reinforces the Air Force's commitment to eliminate sexual assaults through awareness and prevention training, education, victim advocacy, response, reporting, and accountability.
Total Force Accountability Tasks
Include personnel accounting, strength reporting, replacement actions, duty status updating, transient accounting, and Deliberate Crisis Action Planning, and Execution Segment (DCAPES) system management.
Recreation, Entertainment, and Resale Operations
Force Support team programs to enable Airman regeneration.
Developing Airmen
Force Support teams enable continuing education of deployed Airmen, to include pre-commissioning programs, professional military education (PME), professional continuing education, higher education, and transition and career assistance.
Tempo Band B
The AEF Baseline Construct:
Five 6-month blocks
Tempo Band C
Tempo Band:
Four 6-month blocks
Tempo Band D
Tempo Band:
Three 6-Month blocks
Tempo Band E
Tempo Band:
Two 6-month blocks
AEF Key Principles
Predictability, Equitability, Transparency
Predictability
Alignment of forces across AEF blocks defines battle rhythm and allows the Air Force to address the questions, "Who goes first?" And "Who goes next?" which provides Airmen with a level of _______.
Equitability
With the addition of tempo banding, this AEF concept allows Airmen in the same functional areas to deploy at the same pace.
Transparency
No mystery to the AEF process: the when, why, and how should be visible and understood by every Airman.
AEF Key Elements
Readily Available Force, Enabler Force, In-place Support, Institutional Force
Readily Available Force
The primary pool of resources fulfilling Air Force rotational requirements.
Enabler Force
Includes common user assets, such as global mobility forces, special operations (SOF) and personnel recovery forces, space forces and other uniquely categorized forces. Most high demand/low supply (HD/LS) assets are postured as _______.
MISCAP Statement
A short paragraph which describes the mission a Unit Type Code (UTC) is capable of accomplishing.
MISCAP should include:
- A brief explanation of mission capabilities
- The types of bases to which the unit can be deployed (e.g., bare base, collocated operating base and main operating base etc.)
- Response Capability
- Other UTC's which are required to support the defined capability
MFE (Manpower Force Element)
Lists manpower requirements.
The MFE contains:
- Employed Functional Account Code (FAC) (Not necessarily the same as home station FAC)
- AFSC
- Grade (mandatory for officer and civilian requirements; optional for enlisted)
- Command remarks (if applicable)
- Quantity
Logistics Detail (LOGDET)
The equipment portion of a UTC.
LOGDET contains:
A description of each piece of equipment, national stock number, quantity, movement characteristics, size and weight of each individual item.
Reasons for a new UTC:
- New equipment
- Significant change in operational concept or mission
- Significant program changes to manpower or equipment
Air Force Functional Area Managers (FAMS)
_______ usually initiate development of a new UTC.
Posturing
The act of converting the unit manpower document into UTCs and aligning them to a specific AEF.
Each UTC is assigned a:
3-character availability code.
Specific Capabilities or Limitations
The second and third characters of a UTC's posturing code represent:
Unit Commanders
_______, through their Unit Deployment Managers will:
- Assign incoming airman an AEF Indicator within 15 days of arrival
- Not assign an airman to a position that would require him-her to depoly a second time in the same AEF cycle.
RFL03
13 member team. Provides limited initial food service, lodging, mortuary affairs, fitness, recreation, resale ops, and NAFI support for populations up to 275 for 10 days and personnel accountability, casualty reporting and personnel program advice for populations up to 1,650.
RFL05
1 member (038P3, 03). Provides FSS leadership for an FSS squadron or other support operation.
Force Modules
(1) Open the Airbase
(2) Command and Control
(3) Establish the Airbase
(4) Generate the Mission
(5) Operate the Airbase
(6) Robust the Airbase
AETF FM: Open the Airbase
During this AETF force module, forces will normally arrive first and assess the airbase for establishment of minimum airfield operating parameters and establish an initial operating capability (IOC) in approximately 24 hours from the arrival of forces.
AETF FM: Establish the Airbase
This AETF FM contains limited forces to bring the base to an initial operating capability. It provides the airfield's earliest capability to execute its assigned mission.
AETF FM: Operate the Airbase
The _______ AETF force module contains mission support forces needed to achieve full operating capability. This module will provide capabilities to enhance force protection, communications, cargo handling, quality of life activities.
Augmentation (or Extended) FMs
Provide the additional capability to meet a more demanding requirement with extended capabilities (for example: enhanced security or disaster response).
FSS FM: Open the Airbase
During the _______, the UTC sent to establish IOC for accountability and casualty reporting (as well as initial beddown planning) is RFL01.
FSS FM: Command and Control
During the _______, initial force support C2 is provided by the two officer positions provided in RFL01 and RFL05.
FSS FM: Establish the Airbase
The bulk of force support UTCs arrive during the _______ FM.
FSS FM: Operate the Airbase
During this phase, force support focus is to reach IOC for recreation and fitness activities as well as final operating capability (FOC) for PERSCO, NAF resale operations, protocol and laundry.
FSS FM: Robust the Airbase
Learning Resource Center and Airman and Family Readiness Center activities arrive during this FM.
Expeditionary Force Support: Command Section
Consists of the commander, deputy, and command support staff.
Expeditionary Force Support: Operations Staff
Includes the Readiness in Base Services managers, mortuary operations, NAF financial manager and marketing/events coordinator.
Expeditionary Force Support: Manpower and Personnel Flight
Consists of the manpower and organization (MO) section and PERSCO section.
Expeditionary Force Support: Sustainment Services Flight
Consists of food services, fitness and sports, and lodging.
Expeditionary Force Support: Community Services Flight
Consists of the recreation section and the combined Airman & Family Readiness Center Deployed (A&FRC-D) and Learning Resource Center.
Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
_______ is a verbal or graphic statement, in broad outline, of a CCDR's assumptions or intent in regard to an operation or series of operations.
OPLAN Annexes
The details of an operational plan, can be found in its _______.
Annex and Appendix
Each _______ consists of six sections.
OPLAN Annex D - Logistics
Mobility and transportation, civil engineering support, mortuary services, subsistence support and services.
OPLAN Annex E - Personnel
Personnel support for the operations as well as programs supporting personnel resources including finance, legal, and manpower.
OPLAN Annex F - Public Affairs
Media and community relations.
Volume 1 (WMP-1), Basic Plan and Supporting Supplements
WMP plan used as a central reference source.
Volume 3 (WMP-3), Combat and Support Forces.
This WMP plan has four parts and part 2 is the Air Force Unit Type Code (UTC) Availability and contains all postured UTC capability in the Air Force.
Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES)
The DOD-directed single, integrated joint command and control system for conventional operation planning and execution.
JOPES Edit Tool (JET)
Provides a capability for the planner to create and modify a TPFDD file and build a force list.
Deliberate Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segment (DCAPES)
_______ provides support to deployed PERSCO teams via the web application.
Strength and Casualty Reporting
DCAPES software is menu driven and provides an automated tool for force accountability of deployed forces and requirements to include _______.
Air Force JOPES Editing Tool (AFJET)
The primary purpose of _______ is to allow AF planners to update and maintain JOPES TPFDDs.
Accounted For
Personnel are considered _______ when any of the following occur:
- The member is physically present
- The member has been contacted or has made contact (e.g. by telephone or other means)
- The member is in an official status of unauthorized absence, desertion, deceased, or missing.
Recall
To ask or order to return.
Communications Out Recall
This is a type of recall used when communications systems are inoperable.
Telephone Recall
This is a method of relaying verbal information via a chain or cascading list of telephone calls.
Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO)
Operations directed by the Department of State where noncombatants are evacuated from areas of danger overseas to safe havens or to the United States.
Three NEO Policy Objectives
1) To protect U.S. Citizens to include their evacuation to relatively stable areas and ensuring their welfare in the area.
2) To reduce to a minimum the number of U.S. Citizens subject to the risk of death, injury, or capture as hostages.
3) To reduce to a minimum the number of U.S. Citizens in probable or actual combat areas in order to avoid impairing the combat effectiveness of U.S. And allied military commanders.
Strength Accountability
PERSCO will maintain accountability over all personnel on the ground, including transients, at their deployed and designated geographically separated locations, regardless of status.
Transient Forces
_______ are personnel that spend at least one night in billeting at a location but are enroute to their final duty location.
Air Force Crisis Action Team Director
_______ initiates Air Force Total Force Accountability (TFA) actions via established command and control procedures.
Unit Commanders
_______ are the first and most critical link when it comes to establishing accountability.
Catastrophic Event
Air Force goal is 100% accountability of all personnel within 48 hours of a _______.
Air Force Personnel Accountability and Assessment System (AFPAAS)
________ allows personnel to:
- Report accountability status
- Update contact/local information
- Complete needs assessment
- View reference information
Installation Deployment Readiness Cell (IDRC)
The _______ is a centralized function aligned under the Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) Commander and generally located within LRS facilities. It has direct line of communication and responsibility to the installation/wing commander.
Permanent Staff
Consists of the IDO, Logistics Plans, and IPR personnel.
Unit Deployment Manager (UDM)
_______ manages all deployment readiness and training aspects for all deployable personnel and equipment within their unit to ensure they are deployment ready.
Shortfall and Reclama Process
Air Force active duty, AFRC, ANG, MAJCOMs, wings, groups, and units will make every effort to meet all taskings. Generally, relief will only be sought when a wing or tasked unit does not possess sufficient or qualified personnel to support a tasking or the tasking is impossible to meet or will shut down critical elements of the home station mission, as determined by the wing commander or equivalent.
UTC Shortfall
When the tasked unit commander cannot support a tasking, that commander will request relief by submitting a ________ through the reclama process to the Shortfall Validation Team and to the wing commander (or equivalent).
Shortfall Validation Team
Manpower Office, IPR, MPS, LRS Plans and Integration Office, AFSC Manager (or LRS for equipment)
MAJCOM
Once the wing commander or equivalent approves the UTC shortfall request, the IDO will submit to their_______.
The IDO and the MPS Chief
Establish a PDF IAW AFI 36-3802 and AFI 10-403.
Deployment Checklist
If the IDO deems a stand-alone PDF line is not required, deploying personnel must be provided a _______ to ensure deploying personnel receive the same processing and services that are afforded in the formal PDF line.
PDF responsibilities:
- Establishes deployment eligibility and medical stations for deploying personnel from the time they arrive at the PDF processing line until they leave home station.
- Maintains positive control and accountability of deploying personnel from the time they arrive at the PDF processing line until they leave home station.
- Advises commanders when personnel selected for deployment are ineligible to deploy.
- Uses DCAPES via IPR to produce Contingency Exercise Deployment orders.
PDF Line Processing Actions:
- Prepare new ID tags IAW AFI 36-3103, "Identification Tags" and appropriate CACs.
- Accomplish changes to Servicemember's Group Life Insurance (SGLI) Election and Certificate upon request.
- Ensure deploying individuals have a printed copy of their Virtual Record of Emergency Data.
- Collect completed AF Form 245, "Employment Locator and Processing Checklist," for inclusion in the Troop Commander's Personnel Accountability Kit.
PDF Line Agencies
The IDO may include Finance, Legal, Chaplain, Medical, Public Affairs
Personnel HRST
Includes training for PERSCO team members and Installation Personnel Readiness (IPR) members.
DCAPES Wing-Level Users Course
Persco Training: Only 3SOX1 personnel assigned to PERSCO UTC positions coded with SEI 295 (DCAPES Operator) are required to complete the formal _______.
Simluated Wartime Conditions
Force Support Combat Training (FSCT): Force Support students receive additional training on providing contingency food service, lodging, fitness and recreating, and mortuary affairs while under _______.
Primary Mission DOC (Designed Operational Capability) Statement
Reflects the unit's full wartime mission set.
MAJCOM and Measured Unit Commander
DOC statements must be reviewed annually by the _______.
Range of C-Level Ratings
SORTS Measurement Scales: C-1 (highest) to C-6 (lowest)
C-Level Rating: C-1
The unit possesses the required resources and training to undertake the FULL WARTIME MISSION(s) for which it is organized and designed.
C-Level Rating: C-2
The unit possesses the required resources and training to undertake MOST OF THE WARTIME MISSION(s) for which it is organized and designed.
C-Level Rating: C-3
The unit possesses the required resources and training to undertake MANY BUT NOT ALL PORTIONS OF THE WARTIME MISSION(s) for which it is organized and designed.
AEF Reporting Tool (ART)
Commanders conduct two types of UTC assessments in _______: Readiness Assessments and Tasking Assessments
ART Readiness Assessment "Green"
"Go".
ART Readiness Assessment "Yellow"
"Caution". The UTC has a missing or deficient capability that does not prevent the UTC from being tasked and accomplishing its mission in a contingency and/or AEF rotation.
ART Readiness Assessment "Red"
"No go". Units will provide a detailed explanation of the shortfall in remarks - include a description of the shortfall, corrective action(s) and a projected get-well date.
Core METL
Consists of the fundamental capabilities for which a unit was organized and designed. All units will assess.
Mission Assessment Guideline: "Yes"
Green: If the majority (51 percent) of the METS is assessed as "Yes", and the remaining METs are assessed as "Qualified Yes", then the overall assessment should be "Yes".
Mission Assessment Guideline: "Qualified Yes"
Yellow: If the majority (51 percent) of the METs is assessed as a "Qualified Yes", and the remaining METs are assessed as "Yes", then the overall mission assessment should be "Qualified Yes".
Mission Assessment Guideline: "No"
Red: If any of the METs are assessed as "No", then the commander must make a judgment as to whether the mission objectives can still be accomplished.
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