“Be ready for crisis before crisis emerges. Be ready for combat before combat begins,” says Gen. Mark Kelly, commander of Air Combat Command. ACC is evolving its organizational structures, warfighting concept of operations, force presentation and generation models, and how it prepares its Airmen to ensure they are ready for a battlespace that is vastly different than what they have experienced over the past two decades. These transformations involve a new Wing organization that is optimized and ready to ‘max perform’ in crises and compete with peer adversaries. It also involves migrating
“Be ready for crisis before crisis emerges. Be ready for combat before combat begins,” says Gen. Mark Kelly, commander of Air Combat Command. ACC is evolving its organizational structures, warfighting concept of operations, force presentation and generation models, and how it prepares its Airmen to ensure they are ready for a battlespace that is vastly different than what they have experienced over the past two decades. These transformations involve a new Wing organization that is optimized and ready to ‘max perform’ in crises and compete with peer adversaries. It also involves migrating to a sustainable, predictable, and capacity-based, readiness-generating force generation model. Finally, it involves transforming Airmen supporting operations, maintenance, and agile combat into a cohesive team ready to meet the nation’s call and have them execute wartime operations unlike ever before. “Over the past 20 years of counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East, deployed Air Expeditionary Forces, organizational constructs, and warfighting were characterized by fixed bases with adequate air defenses, uncontested logistics and uninterrupted command and control,” said Kelly. “We controlled the combat tempo, and ‘crisis’ was something we imparted on adversaries at a time of our choosing.” “But now, peer adversaries have the ability to attack our air bases. They will contest our logistics and they will interrupt our command and control. We can’t rely on fighting from traditional sanctuary bases so the Air Force is changing to meet the challenge,” he continued. “There is no choice, but to change,” stated Kelly. “After three plus years of experimentation, we’ve learned there are significant gaps in our garrison structure and force presentation. We must be ready for crises at home or deployed before crisis occurs. We’re closing gaps in unity of effort and command and control and working our Global Force Management to presen
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