The Air Force has identified initial skill pairings—complementary jobs outside a primary field—for each officer career field as part of the service’s force development program. The goal, says Lt. Col. Harold Huguley, chief of force development at the Air Force Personnel Center, is to begin “development of officers early on to acquire those skills we’ll need 10 to 15 years down the road.” (Read our article on force development here.)
The Air Force kicked off one of its biggest exercises this week with the latest edition of Bamboo Eagle, featuring combined virtual and live training scenarios focused on test the command-and-control “nervous system” leaders need to operate on a complex joint battlefield spread over vast distances.
