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BASE — A group of dedicated instructors in the 373rd Training Squadron (TRS), Detachment 14, completed their final KC-10 Extender Maintenance Field Training Instruction Class at Travis AFB, May 2023, cementing their place in history and closing the chapter on a remarkable aircraft.
As Team Travis prepares to phase out its fleet of KC-10s and phase in the newest KC-46, the last KC-10 maintenance class stands as a testament to the aircraft’s enduring impact across the Department of Defense over the last 40 years.
“Being a part of the closing chapter of the KC-10 is bittersweet,” said Staff Sgt. Jacob St. George, 373 TRS, Detachment 14, KC-10 APG instructor. “I personally have been assigned to this jet for my entire 11-year career and I have made a lot of friends and created a lot of great memories along the way.”
The maintenance field training curriculum incorporated realistic scenarios and handson experiences, replicating the challenges and complexities of real-world operations. Under the guidance of accomplished instructors, the students immersed
themselves and learned the aircraft’s unique characteristics to maintain them for years of service. In addition to honing their skills as maintainers, they absorbed the values of teamwork, adaptability, and unwavering commitment to the mission that defines the KC-10 community.
“The reward comes down the line when you see how successful the airmen you taught become within such a short period of time after graduating from our classes,” said Fitzpatrick. “When I started instructing in 2019, I never thought I would see the day that I would be teaching one of the last KC-10 classes to come through our doors. It is a bittersweet historical accomplishment that I will always cherish.”
As the weeks progressed, a sense of pride and nostalgia filled the halls of the training facility.
“The amount of blood, sweat, and tears that have been poured into making this aircraft fly and succeed in all aspects of the mission is something we say cannot be done by any other aircraft,” said Tech. Sgt. Andrew Fitzpatrick, 373 TRS, Detachment 14, KC-10 APG instructor. “She definitely is, and always will be, the workhorse of the Air Force- even after she bids her final farewell.”
The Extender, a variant of the civilian DC-10 airliner, made
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its Air Force debut in the early 1980s. Designed for multi-role capabilities, the aircraft revolutionized aerial refueling by combining the capabilities of both a tanker and a cargo aircraft. With its advanced aerial refueling boom, large cargo bay, versatile drogue and probe systems, the KC-10 swiftly became a linchpin in strategic mobility operations.
The instructor class commenced with a comprehensive review of the KC-10’s illustrious history, paying tribute to the countless missions and milestones achieved by the aircraft and the dedicated personnel who supported them.
For more than four decades, the KC-10 Extender has been an essential workhorse in providing vital air-to-air refueling and global airlift out of the “Gateway to the Pacific.” Throughout the tanker’s service at Travis, it has played an integral role in projecting American power worldwide, missions.
Tanker operations are a key component of Air Mobility Command’s joint maneuver force capability from the Middle East to the remote islands across the Pacific, enabling mobility support globally.
Tech. Sgt. Philip Bryant/U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dung Ho, right, and Tech. Sgt. Marchelo Prado, left, 749th Air Mobility Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs, receive on the job training from Staff Sgt. Jacob St. George, KC-10 Extender Airframe, Powerplant General instructor, during a nose landing gear tire change at Travis Air Force Base, June 15. St. George is one of the last 11 KC-10 Field Training Instruction Class instructors at Travis AFB as the base and the Air Force transitions to the newer KC-46 Pegasus.
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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dung Ho, left, and Tech. Sgt. Marchelo Prado, center, receive training from Staff Sgt. Michael Alston, KC-10 Extender Airframe, Powerplant General (APG) instructor, during a nose landing gear tire change at Travis Air Force Base, June 15. Tech. Sgt. Philip Bryant/U.S. Air Force
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — Big changes are underway for deployed airmen as the U.S. Air Force transitions away from the expeditionary Air Force model of force presentation to the Air Force Force Generation model after more than 20 years of contingency operations.
n The Air Force is changing the way it presents and generates forces for the first time in more than 20 years.
n The changes are designed to improve Air Force readiness for the highend fight and to better communicate the capabilities that the service can provide to the Joint Force.
n All airmen, except those assigned to joint positions, will be assigned to one of four phases that deploy on a 24-month cycle, or possibly more frequently for units assigned to the air
component to a Combatant Command.
n Implementation of the new Air Force Force Generation model will evolve over time.
This change establishes a more structured and predictable cycle to better prepare airmen for distributed, high-end combat operations by allowing focused time for individual and unit training and certification. The model also seeks to give joint leaders a more accurate picture of Air Force readiness and how the service can better support joint operations while maintaining that readiness.
According to Air Force senior leaders, the Air Force remains unmatched in its ability to provide airpower anytime, anywhere, but the service is now adapting to changes in the strategic environment to continue to fly, fight and win. While today’s airmen are used to operating from main operating bases in uncontested environments, future conflicts will present radically
different challenges that make this heard-earned experience less applicable.
AFFORGEN and related concepts are some of the ways the Air Force is advancing its warfighter culture to ensure its ability to win tomorrow’s conflicts as part of the joint team.
“We have been able to get away with taking three airmen from this base, five airmen from this base, and two airmen from that base, deploying them and expecting them to come together on day one and be a team,” said Lt. Gen. James Slife, headquarters Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations, during an AFFORGEN panel at the Air Warfare Symposium March 8. “We don’t actually think that’s the way the future operating environment is going to permit us to operate.”
Slife’s comments reinforced comments made by Air Force Chief of
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force recently released its Women, Peace, and Security, or WPS, Strategic Action Plan to operationalize WPS concepts across the Air and Space Forces.
WPS is a policy framework that acknowledges the critical roles women play in international peace and security efforts; it calls for the meaningful participation of women in all levels of decisionmaking to ensure the safety and security of all genders around the globe.
In the military, it is a framework used by operational planners to account for gender differences across multiple domains of social life and examines how military operations can have different effects based on this analysis.
“By implementing the Women, Peace and Security Strategic Action Plan across our department, we will develop diverse world-class teams capable of performing critical missions like Operation Allies Welcome where gender perspectives were critical to our success,” said Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.
The plan lists three objectives to implement the WPS policy framework, including training Gender Advisors, or GENADs, and Gender Focal Points, or GFPs, to implement principles across core DAF functions, employing the framework throughout doctrine and operations and integrating WPS into security cooperation activities with partner nations to support women’s meaningful participation in defense and security sectors.
Three distinct working groups have been established to advance and evaluate each objective.
Women, Peace, and Security concepts have already been implemented in vital operations worldwide. U.S. Northern Command successfully utilized its trained WPS team to provide gender perspectives to the overall crisis planning during OAW in 2021, when almost 80,000 Afghan refugees were safely evacuated to the United States.
They employed a cadre of Joint Staff Gender Focal Points and Gender Advisors to give gender-based considerations when setting up the camps for refugees and leveraged on-site gender advisory support at all eight Department of Defense safe havens tasked to provide housing, medical, and other support services to evacuees.
The initiative to advance WPS concepts worldwide began in 2000 when the United Nations recognized the disproportionate impact of wartime violence on women and girls. To address this, countries around the world started implementing National Action Plans to establish WPS programs.
Congress enacted The Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 in response to Executive Order 13595, which mandated national WPS implementation. It was the first legislation of its kind to acknowledge the multifaceted roles of women throughout the conflict spectrum and identified the Department of Defense as a relevant Federal department responsible for implementing WPS.
Johnny Saldivar/U.S. Afir Force Military training instructors speak with female veterans, known as Women in the Air Force, a term for women who joined the Air Force between 1949 and 1976, during the Air Force Basic Military Training graduation parade Oct. 7, 2016, at Joint Base San AntonioLackland, Texas, parade field. JBSA-Lackland hosted a reunion of the WAF members and provided the veterans a tour of the base.
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Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., during his keynote address on the state of the Air Force during the September 2022 Air, Space and Cyber Conference.
“We need an approach that serves our national security and defense strategies, our joint warfighting concept and recognizes the changing threats and tendencies in the character of warfare,” Brown said, emphasizing the need to accelerate the adoption of new operational concepts. “Adoption is making the concepts part of our DNA, part of our culture.”
Brown considers AFFORGEN as one the drivers for culture change, particularly in the way the Air Force presents and deploys forces — others are agile combat employment, mission command, multi-capable airmen and the wing A-staff construct.
Brown instituted his strategic approach of “Accelerate Change or Lose” when he became the Air Force’s Chief of Staff because he saw uncontested air dominance was not assured, and
AFFORGEN, along with other drivers for change, are a way for the service to maintain its dominance in a changing operational environment.
AFFORGEN establishes a 24-month rotational cycle broken into four, six-month phases: Prepare, Certify, Available and Reset. Airmen and units build readiness through the prepare and certify phases, deploy during the available phase and reintegrate and reconstitute during the reset phase.
While airmen in joint assignments do not typically support Air Force deployments, they could be tasked worldwide and should ensure they remain ready. Airmen assigned to the air components of combatant commands, such as Indo-Pacific Command or European Command, may deploy for operations and exercises within their specific CCMD’s area of responsibility. However, in some cases they may also be tasked to deploy outside of that AOR.
AFFORGEN will continue to evolve as airmen deploy and provide lessons learned to their units. The Headquarters Air Force Lessons Learned Directorate, along with the Headquarters Air Force
Directorate of Operations are the focal points for AFFORGEN-related lessons learned, studies, analyses, assessments, modeling, simulation and policy. In addition, the Air Force Expeditionary Center is responsible for developing a standardized way for commanders to coordinate training, share lessons and mentor their successors.
Under AFFORGEN, the Air Force presents capabilities as force elements made up of multiple unit type codes. Each type of FE provides a specific operational capability:
n Mission Generation: Provides combat, combat support (those that are specifically identified on the aviation/operational UTC’s mission capability statement) and combat service support capability. There are multiple types of MG FEs: Mobility, Air Superiority, Global Precision Attack, Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, Long Range Strike, High-Altitude Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, Air Refueling, Intra-Theater Airlift and Combat Search and Rescue.
n Open the Airbase: This FE provides capabilities to open an airbase, regardless of follow-on mission(s), including command and control, force protection, cargo and passenger handling, logistics, airfield operations, force accountability, finance and contracting, host nation support, reception and bed-down of follow on forces.
n Command and Control: This FE provides the capabilities to establish an Air Expeditionary Wing C2 structure and includes initial wing operations, maintenance, mission support and medical group commanders as well as the Air (A) and special staffs.
n Establish the Airbase: This FE provides sufficient forces to support most missions or weapon systems. It integrates with the Open the Air base and C2 FEs as required and provides the earliest capability to enable and sustain the generation of missions.
n Operate the Airbase: This FE enhances combat support and combat services support capabilities beyond what the Establish the Airbase FE provides and brings it to full operational capability.
n Robust the Airbase: This FE provides additional combat
support and combat service support to increase the robustness of the capabilities already in place.
n Demand Force Teams: DFTs are units or capabilities with unique or highly specific combat, combat support, or combat service support capabilities. Examples include the Expeditionary Medical Support System, Rapid Engineering Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron – Engineer, or Combat Camera squadrons.
In addition to being part of an FE, USAF-funded active-duty airmen are assigned to deployment phases A, B, C, or D, which replace the previous Pand X-bands. Airmen will begin deploying under AFFORGEN in October, with phase C followed by D, A, and B phases every six months. These phases then repeat every 24-months.
AFFORGEN FEs are intended to be tailorable but not divisible. This means if a joint force commander only requests a specific subset of UTCs from a FE, the remaining UTCs will remain unavailable for use during that AFFORGEN cycle.
LEFT: U.S. Air Force Col. Derek Salmi, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander, hands the guidon to Col. Justin Ballinger, 60th Operations Group commander, as he assumes command during the 60th OG Change of Command Ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, June 23. The ceremony is rooted in military history dating back to the 18th Century where the command flag is passed to the individual assuming command in the presence of the entire unit.
BELOW: U.S. airmen assigned to the 60th Operations Group stand in formation during the 60th OG Change of Command Ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, June 23.
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pinpointing exactly where the issue is, especially in hard-to-reach areas,” Horton said.
Without the acoustic imager, CBM personnel were required to “walk down” detected leaks to assess where they were occurring. With the imager in hand, staff are no longer relegated to relying exclusively upon the ultrasound detector. Horton said this
will greatly reduce the time spent seeking leaks and on the electrical inspection process.
The ultrasound and imager will be used in conjunction with one another to optimize issue detection. The imager utilizes technology which enables the user to see the exact location of the ultrasound on a digital image displayed on the device. It can also determine the distance, size and decibel level of a leak.
“The acoustic imager will be used along with our current
equipment and will enhance our ability to pinpoint where the leak or electrical anomaly is coming from,” Horton said.
Visuals can also be shared from the imager to help better facilitate repair work.
“Once a leak or electrical anomaly is detected, the information can be transferred into a reporting tool that can be used to convey where repairs need to be made,” Horton said.
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