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HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- With global competition heating up, the need to maximize the agility of U.S. Air Force operational command and control has never been more pressing. Fortunately, the USAF’s Operational Command Training Program is a foundational piece of its current C2 training architecture.  The OCTP team is a powerful tool designed to support every Air Component Command around the globe, yet too many operational level leaders are unfamiliar with the program and its value in optimizing mission success. The OCTP team is made up of graduated C2 leaders who provide operational-level ...

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- With global competition heating up, the need to maximize the agility of U.S. Air Force operational command and control has never been more pressing. Fortunately, the USAF’s Operational Command Training Program is a foundational piece of its current C2 training architecture.  The OCTP team is a powerful tool designed to support every Air Component Command around the globe, yet too many operational level leaders are unfamiliar with the program and its value in optimizing mission success. The OCTP team is made up of graduated C2 leaders who provide operational-level ...

COMACC visits Hurlburt’s 505th Command and Control Wing Photo By Shelton Keel | U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, commander of Air Combat Command, right, coins U.S. Air...... read moreread more Photo By Shelton Keel | U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, commander of Air Combat Command, right, coins U.S. Air Force Capt. Stephen Perkins, 705th Training Squadron, left, for his superior performance and recent achievements at Hurlburt Field, Florida, April 6, 2021. Perkins, deputy director wing weapons an...

Reserve Airmen from the 713th Combat Operations Squadron supported Headquarters Pacific Air Forces thousands of miles away for an Air Force Forces exercise, Feb. 3-11. More than 25 Reserve Airmen worked via distributed operations from Beale Air Force Base,, News stories from the United States Air Force Academy.

“This was about 713th (COS) Airmen taking personal pride and initiative to ‘accelerate change’ and overcome adversity,” said Col. Xaviera Slocum, 713th COS commander. “When told just three months prior that our squadron couldn’t travel to Hawaii for the exercise, our Airmen used their innovation skills to turn our Beale AFB facility into a distributed ops node for PACAF and still accomplish our mission.” Hawaii and PACAF’s COVID-19 safety protocols made travel and on-island participation from the 713th COS near impossible. The idea of distributed ops came up in November, and b...