AIR COMBAT COMMAND

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MAJOR COMMANDS
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Overview

• ACC
• AMC
• AFSPC
• AETC
• AFMC
• AFSOC
• AFRC
• PACAF
• USAFE

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ACC Mission Statement

• Develop airmen-Prepare to deploy-Ready to fight

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HQ AIR COMBAT COMMAND Langley AFB, VA
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AIR COMBAT COMMAND Established 1 June 1992

• Personnel
• 84,948 AD
• 58,136 Reservists
• Aircraft
• 776 Mission A/C
• 223 Training A/C
• 752 ANG AFRES
• USAF 2002 Almanac

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ACC STRUCTURE
AF Chief of Staff
Air Combat Command

12th AF
1st AF
8th AF
9th AF
First AF Tyndall, AFB
Eighth AF Barksdale AFB
Ninth AF Shaw AFB
Twelfth AF Davis-Monthan
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ACC STRUCTURE
AF Chief of Staff
Air Combat Command

12th AF
1st AF
8th AF
9th AF
Twelfth AF Davis-Monthan
First AF Tyndall, AFB
Eighth AF Barksdale AFB
Ninth AF Shaw AFB
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Reason for Organization

• Wartime effectiveness
• Fighters bombers fight together
• Blurring of capabilities of fighter bomber
  aircraft

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Mobility Defined

• A quality or capability of military forces which
  permits them to move from place to place while
  retaining the ability to fulfill their primary
  mission.
• Joint Pub 1-02

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AMC Mission Statement

• The Air Mobility Team Responsive Global Reach
  for America... Every Day!

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AMC Missions

• PRIMARY
• Provide rapid, global mobility
• Sustainment for Americas armed forces
• The primary tasks are airlift and aerial refueling

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HQ AIR MOBILITY COMMAND Scott AFB, IL
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AMC

• People -
• 140,221
• 82,938 reserves
• Monthly flying -
• 30, 000 hours
• USAF 2002 Almanac

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Chief of Staff
Air Mobility Command
Scott AFB
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• We have learned and must not forget that from
  now on, air transport is an essential element of
  airpower, in fact, national power.
• General Hap Arnold

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AFSPC Mission

• To defend the United States of America through
  the control and exploitation of space.

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HQ AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND Peterson AFB, CO
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AFSPC

• People -
• 27,934
• 1,331 reserves
• Satellites -
• Own/Operate over 50 in various orbitstrack all
  others
• USAF 2002 Almanac
• 500 Minuteman III ICBMs

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Chief of Staff
Air Force Space Command
Peterson AFB
14th Air Force
20th Air Force
Vandenberg AFB
FE Warren AFB
Space Warfare Center
Schriever AFB
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AFSPCSpace Operations

• Space Doctrine
• Doctrinal concept
• Written doctrine
• AFDD-2
• Army FM 100-18
• JP 3-14
• Still evolving

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Space Environment

• Low Earth Orbit (90-3000 NM)
• Used for detailed weather, mapping, and imaging
• Satellites require more fuel
• Have shorter life span (1 year)

• Medium Altitude (3000-13,000 NM)
• Mainly for navigation satellites

• High Altitude
• Geosynchronous (19, 300 NM )
• - Stay in same position above Earth
• Communications, weather/missile warning
  satellites

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Environmental Satellite

• Mission Provide meteorological and
  multi-spectral imagery (MSI) data
• Weather
• Multi-spectral Imagery

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Navigation Satellite

• Mission Navigational Positional data
  Capabilities

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Satellite Communications

• Mission Provide worldwide communications
• Capabilities.

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Ballistic Missile Early Warning

• Mission Surveillance for warning and attack
  assessment.

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Reconnaissance

• Mission Mapping intelligence data
• Capabilities.

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ICBM Operations

• Nuclear deterrence
• Joint Publication 3-12
• Key in maintaining credible deterrent threat
  against potential enemies
• Allows US to remain in a defensive posture
• Makes war outcome uncertain and dangerous,
  removes enemies incentive to attack

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Air Education and Training Command

• To replenish the combat capability of America's
  Air Force with high quality, professional airmen
• HQ Randolph AFB, TX

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Air Education and Training Command

• All Air Force recruiting (except USAFAs)
• Operates 2 of 3 commissioning programs
• Training
• Basic military training
• Professional military education (PME)
• Graduate degree programs (AFIT)
• Undergraduate pilot training

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Air Education Training Command

• Training (Tech School)
• Advanced flying training
• Firefighter training
• Space and missile training
• Intelligence training

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Air Education and Training Command Organization

• Two Numbered Air Forces (NAF)
• 2nd AF (Keesler)
• Four technical training wings
• 381st Training Group (Vandenberg AFB)
• 19th AF (Randolph)
• 5 UPT programs other ops training wings
• Air University (Maxwell)
• Officer Enlisted PME
• AFIT

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Air Force Materiel Command

• To plan, develop, field and sustain integrated
  air and space capabilities for dominant
  warfighting effectstoday and tomorrow.
• HQ Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

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Air Force Materiel Command

• Fulfills its mission through a series of
  facilities that fosters cradle-to-grave
  oversight for aircraft, missiles, munitions and
  the people who operate them

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Air Force MaterielCommand Organization

• 4 Major Product Centers
• Weapons systems developed and acquired
• Flight Development Centers
• Weapons testing
• Logistics Centers
• Service repair weapon systems over its
  lifetime
• Specialized support centers
• Perform other development logistics functions

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• AF Materiel Command
• is the Air Forces
• One-Stop Shop

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Air Force Special Operations Command

• "America's specialized air power ... a step ahead
  in a changing world, delivering special
  operations combat power anytime, anywhere."
• Supports geographic commands and US Special
  Operations Command
• HQ Hurlburt Field, Fla

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Air Force Special Operations Command

• One active duty wing
• Hurlburt Field, Fla
• Special Ops Groups
• Mildenhall, UK
• Kadena AB, Japan

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Air Force Special Operations Command

• Unconventional warfare
• Guerrilla-type warfare
• Direct action
• Overt military action against target
• Special reconnaissance
• Provides info unavailable from aerial assets
• Counterterrorism
• Foreign internal defense
• Training countries methods of resisting
  insurgencies

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Air Force Reserve Command

• To provide citizen Airmen to defend the United
  States and protect its interests through air and
  space power.
• HQ Robins AFB, GA

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Air Force Reserve Command

• 3 Numbered Air Forces
• 4th AF (McClellan AFB)
• 10th AF (Carswell ARB)
• 22nd AF (Dobbins ARB)
• Air Reserve Personnel Center (Denver)

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Pacific Air Forces

• To provide ready air and space power to promote
  U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific region during
  peacetime, through crisis, and in war.
• Organize, train, equip, and maintain resources to
  conduct air operations
• HQ Hickam AFB, HI

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Pacific Air Forces

• 15 AB Wing (Hickam AFB)
• 5 AF (Yokota AB)
• 7 AF (Osan AB)
• 11 AF (Elmendorf AFB)
• 13 AF (Andersen AFB)

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United States Air Forces in Europe

• Plan, conduct and coordinate offensive and
  defensive air operations in the European theater
  of operations
• Support in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle
  East, and Africa
• Supports Allied Command Europe
• HQ Ramstein AB, Germany

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Allied Command Europe
Allied Forces Northwest
Allied Forces South
Allied Forces Central
United States Air Forces in Europe
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Summary

• ACC
• AMC
• AFSPC
• AETC
• AFMC
• AFSOC
• AFRC
• PACAF
• USAFE

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Questions