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-Implement a new combat air forces force generation model -Optimize wings for the high-end fight -Train Agile Combat Employment-capable forces Years of low intensity combat in the Middle East, coupled with a force management construct not currently optimized for combat in a highly contested environment, has created an opportunity to drastically reform how ACC organizes, trains and equips its forces. “Peer competition, crisis and combat does not provide us with ‘months’ to assess and study requirements, execute the RFF (request for forces) process, work sourcing, schedule deployments and...

Air Combat Command leadership has created a task force to tackle the challenge of preparing combat air forces for strategic competition with a near peer, as outlined in the 2018 National Defense Strategy., News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions

By   Theresa Hitchens on April 28, 2021 at 2:12 PM The Combined Air & Space Operations Center’s Combat Operations Division WASHINGTON: The Air Force’s Kessel Run coding ‘factory’ has just fielded new software to speed targeting by the service’s far-flung Air Operations Centers — aimed at supporting Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). “This is a huge milestone for Kessel Run, ACC and our users,” said Col. Brian Beachkofski, commander of Kessel Run. “Only a year after delivering stand-alone applications to support operations, we’ve fielded an MVP suite of nine a...

This Soldier Fought Against the Axis in a Sherman Tank In a gripping first-hand account, this veteran tells what it was like to be inside the famous Sherman tank and to help win World War II. Key point: Some experiences were scary, some were mundane, others were heroic or depressing. Here is this veteran's story. Private First Class Irving Bromberg saw a huge puff of smoke erupt from the German tank’s cannon muzzle as it headed straight for his M4 Sherman tank. The round streaked past and missed. This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.

March 7, 1945, American Infantry Capture a Bridge Over the Rhine Share This: The bridge from the eastern side: U.S. Army In March of 1945, the collapse of Nazi Germany was imminent. American and British bombers were laying waste to nearly every German city. The German army was reaching its breaking point: Western armies were pushing from the west and in the south, they were driving the German’s inexorably back from Italy. Meanwhile, the Soviets were pushing from the east having reached Poland. With the end approaching, the Nazi government pulled the very old and young into civilian militia ...