Warrior Knowledge

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Warrior Knowledge
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Overview

• Air Force Vision 2020
• Air Force Mission
• ROTC Mission
• Honor Code
• Air Force Core Values
• Code of Codes
• Principles of War

• Phonetic Alphabet
• Air Force Core Capabilities
• Air Force Core Competencies
• 3 Levels of Warfare
• Air Force Song (the entire song!!!)

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Overview Continued

• Tenets of Aerospace Power
• 10 Propositions of Airpower
• Air and Space Functions
• Chains of CommandCommunication
• Chains of Command Operational

• Air Force Major Commands
• Air Force Wing Structure
• Oath of Office
• High Flight By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
• Taps

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Air Force Vision 2020

• Global Vigilance, Reach and Power

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Air Force Mission

• To defend the US and protect its interests
  through aerospace power

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ROTC Mission

• To produce leaders for the Air Force and build
  better citizens for America

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Honor Code

• We will not lie, steal, or cheat nor tolerate
  among us anyone who does

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Air Force Core Values

• Integrity first
• Service Before Self
• Excellence in all we do

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Code of Codes

• --Article 1 I am an American, fighting in the
  forces which guard my country and our way of
  life. I am prepared to give my life in their
  defense.
• --Article 2 I will never surrender of my own
  free will. If in command, I will never surrender
  the members of my command while they still have
  the means to resist.

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Next Two

• --Article 3 If I am captured, I will continue
  to resist by all means available. I will make
  every effort to escape and aid others to escape.
  I will accept neither parole nor special favors
  from the enemy.
• --Article 4 If I become a prisoner of war, I
  will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will
  give no information, nor take part in any action
  which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am
  senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey
  the lawful orders of those appointed over me and
  will back them up in every way.

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Last Two

• --Article 5 When questioned, should I become a
  prisoner of war, I am required to give my name,
  rank, service number, and date of birth. I will
  evade answering further questions to the utmost
  of my ability. I will make no oral or written
  statements disloyal to my country and its allies
  or harmful to their cause.
• --Article 6 I will never forget that I am an
  American, fighting for freedom, responsible for
  my actions, and dedicated to the principles which
  made my country free. I will trust in my God and
  in the United States of America

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Principles of War

• Objective
• Offensive
• Mass
• Economy of Force
• Maneuver
• Unity of command
• Security
• Surprise
• Simplicity

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Phonetic Alphabet

• AALFA
• BBRAVO
• CCHARLIE
• DDELTA
• EECHO
• FFOXTROT
• GGOLF
• HHOTEL
• IINDIA
• JJULIETT
• KKILO
• LLIMA
• MMIKE

• NNOVEMBER
• OOSCAR
• PPAPA
• QQUEBEC
• RROMEO
• SSIERRA
• TTANGO
• UUNIFORM
• VVICTOR
• WWHISKEY
• XXRAY
• YYANKEE
• ZZULU

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Air Force Core Capabilities

• Air and Space Superiority
• Global attack
• Rapid Global Mobility
• Precision Engagement
• Information Superiority
• Agile Combat Support

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Air Force Core Competencies

• Developing Airmen
• Technology-to-warfighting
• Integrating Operations

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3 Levels of Warfare

• Strategic
• Operational
• Tactical

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Air Force Song (the entire song!!!) First two
verses

• Off we go into the wild blue yonder,
• Climbing high into the sun
• Here they come zooming to meet our thunder,
• At em boys, Give er the gun!
• Down we dive, spouting our flame from under,
• Off with one helluva roar!
• We live in fame or go down in flame. Hey!
• Nothingll stop the U.S. Air Force!
• Minds of men fashioned a crate of thunder,
• Sent it high into the blue
• Hands of men blasted the world asunder
• How they lived God only knew!
• Souls of men dreaming the skies to conquer
• Gave us wings, ever to soar!
• With scouts before and bombers galore. Hey!
• Nothingll stop the U.S. Air force!

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Last two verses

• Heres a toast to the host
• Of those who love the vastness of the sky,
• To a friend we send a message of his brother men
  who fly.
• We drink to those who gave their all of old,
• Then down we roar to score the rainbows pot of
  gold.
• A toast to the host of men we boast, the U.S. Air
  Force!
• Off we go into the wild sky yonder,
• Keep the wings level and true
• If youd live to be a gray-haired wonder
• Keep the nose out of the blue!
• Flying men, guarding the nations border,
• Well be there, followed by more!
• In echelon we carry on. Hey!
• Nothingll Stop the U.S. Air Force!

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Tenets of Aerospace Power

• Centralized control/Decentralized Execution
• Flexibility/Versatility
• Priority
• Synergy
• Balance
• Concentration
• Persistence

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10 Propositions of Airpower

• Whoever controls the air generally controls the
  surface.
• Air Power is an inherently strategic force
• Air Power is primarily an offensive weapon
• In essence, Air Power is targeting targeting is
  intelligence and intelligence is analyzing the
  effects of air operations
• Air Power produces physical and psychological
  shock by dominating the fourth dimensiontime.
• Air Power can conduct parallel operations at all
  levels of war, simultaneously
• Precision air weapons have redefined the meaning
  of mass
• Air Powers unique characteristics necessitate
  that it be centrally controlled by airmen
• Technology and Air Power are integrally and
  synergistically related
• air power includes not only military assets, but
  an aerospace industry and commercial aviation

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Air and Space Functions

• Counterair
• Counterspace
• Counterland
• Countersea
• Strategic Attack
• Counterinformation
• Command and Control
• Airlift
• Air Refueling
• Spacelift

• Special Operations Employment
• Intelligence
• Surveillance
• Reconnaissance
• Combat Search and Rescue
• Navigation and Positioning
• Weather Services

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Chains of CommandCommunication

• The President of the United States of America
• The Secretary of Defense
• The Secretary of the Air Force
• The Chief of Staff, US Air Force
• Commander, Major Command
• Commander, Numbered Air Force
• Commander, Wing

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Chains of Command Operational

• The President of the United States of America
• The Secretary of Defense
• Unified Combatant Commander
• Component Commander

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Air Force Major Commands

• ACC-Air Combat CommandHA Langley AFB, CA
• AETC-Air Education and Training CommandHQ
  Randolph AFB, TX
• AFMC-Air Force Materiel CommandHQ
  Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
• AFSPC-Air Force Space CommandHQ Peterson AFB,
  Co
• PACAF-Pacific Air ForcesHQ Hickam AFB, HI
• AFSOC-Air Force Special Operations CommandHQ
  Hurlburt Field, FL
• AMC-Air Mobility CommandHQ Scott AFB, IL
• AFRC-Air Force Reserve CommandHQ Robins AFB, GA
• USAFE-United States Air Force in EuropeHQ
  Ramstein AB, GE

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Air Force Wing Structure

• Operations group
• Operations support SQ
• Operations SQ
• Operations SQ
• Operations SQ
• Maintenance Group
• Maintenance Operations SQ
• Aircraft maintenance SQ
• Component Maintenance SQ
• Equipment Maintenance SQ

• Munitions SQ
• Mission Support Group
• Mission Support SQ
• Security Forces SQ
• Civil Engineers SQ
• Services SQ
• Communications SQ
• Contracting Sq
• Logistics Readiness SQ
• Medical Group
• Dental SQ
• Medical Operations SQ
• Medical Support SQ
• Aerospace Medicine Sq

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Oath of Office

• I, (full Name), having been appointed a (Rank)
  in the United States Air force, do solemnly swear
  (or affirm) that I will support and defend the
  Constitution of the United States against all
  enemies, foreign and domestic that I will bear
  true faith and allegiance to the same that I
  take this obligation freely, without any mental
  reservation or purpose of evasion and that I
  will well and faithfully discharge the duties of
  the office upon which I am about to enter, SO
  HELP ME GOD.

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The US National Anthem

• O say can you see, by the dawns early light
• What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last
  gleaming
• Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the
  perilous flight
• Oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly
  streaming
• And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in
  air
• Gave proof through the night, that our flag was
  still there
• O say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
• Oer the land of the free and the home of the
  brave

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High Flight By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

• Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
• And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings
• Sunward Ive climbed and joined the tumbling
  mirth
• Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
• You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and
  swung
• High in the sunlit silence
• Hovring there, Ive chased the shouting wind
  along and
• Flung my eager craft through footless halls of
  air
• Up, up the long delirious, burning blue
• Ive topped the wing-swept heights with easy
  grace
• Where never lark, or even eagle flew
• And, while with silent, lifting mind Ive trod
• The high untrespassed sanctity of space
• Put out my hand and touched the face of God

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Taps

• Day is done
• Gone the sun
• From the lake
• From the hill
• From the sky
• All is well
• Safely rest
• God is neigh

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Conclusion

• Air Force Vision 2020
• Air Force Mission
• ROTC Mission
• Honor Code
• Air Force Core Values
• Code of Codes
• Principles of War

• Phonetic Alphabet
• Air Force Core Capabilities
• Air Force Core Competencies
• 3 Levels of Warfare
• Air Force Song (the entire song!!!)

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Conclusion Continued

• Tenets of Aerospace Power
• 10 Propositions of Airpower
• Air and Space Functions
• Chains of CommandCommunication
• Chains of Command Operational

• Air Force Major Commands
• Air Force Wing Structure
• Oath of Office
• High Flight By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
• Taps