The Air Mobility Warfare Center is about to roll out its new 3.5 day course designed to indoctrinate colonels who are slated to deploy as expeditionary mission support group commanders. The first course is set to kick off Feb. 7 with 18 students. Col. Shelley Christian, commandant of the Expeditionary Operations School at Ft. Dix, N.J., says the new course is the next step in leadership training, by verifying and validating the competency of expeditionary combat force leadership.
Amid a high-profile recruiting crisis, Air Force leaders and experts have increasingly noted the challenging long-term trends the service will face in enticing young Americans to sign up—decreasing eligibility to serve, less propensity to do so, and less familiarity with the military. But while those same leaders say there’s no “silver…