What is Force Development

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Force Development will enable us to focus on
each individual by emphasizing our common Airman
cultureEvery aspect of Force Development has one
common goal To continue developing professional
Airmen who instinctively leverage their
respective strengths together. We intend to
develop leaders who motivate teams, mentor
subordinates, and train successors. General
John P. Jumper Chief of Staff of the Air
Force, 2002
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• Overview
• What is Force Development (FD)
• Levels of Officer Development
• FD Through the Assignment Process
• FD Through Education and Training
• Air Force Education and Training Guiding
  Principles
• Tactical-level Education and Guiding Principles
• Opportunities for Developmental Education
• Role of the Promotion System
• Selection Boards
• Additional Self-Development

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• What is Force Development?
• It is the series of experiences and challenges,
  combined with education and training
  opportunities that produce Air Force leadership

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• Objectives of Officer FD
• Deliberately connect all training and education
  opportunities to assignment experiences to build
  competencies that best meet Air Force needs in
  and across career fields.
• Purposefully connect individuals goals with Air
  Force needs to best achieve both.
• Ensure Air Force personnel-directed decision
  processes invest the right education, training
  and experience in the right officers at the right
  time.
• Enhance leader and officer understanding of their
  roles in officer development, using their inputs
  in the assignment process and providing feedback
  to inform and shape expectations.

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• Levels of Officer FD
• Tactical level
• Lieutenants and captains
• Master primary duty skills
• Serve as AFs technicians and specialists
• Lean about yourself and your leadership skills
• Typically represented by flight and some
• squadron command opportunities

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• Levels of Officer FD
• Operational level
• Majors and Lieutenant Colonels
• Understands how we use people/teams to accomplish
  our missions
• Transition from being a specialist to person who
  integrates multiple specialists to accomplish a
  task
• Possess good understanding of your personal
  leadership strengths/weaknesses and apply that
  knowledge to directing/leading teams
• Squadron Commander Division/Branch Chief
  assignments

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• Levels of Officer FD
• Strategic level
• Colonels and General Officers
• Possess deep understanding of AF missions and how
  operational capabilities and Airmen are
  integrated to accomplish our missions
• Understands how AF works in joint and
  multinational environments
• Transitions from leading teams of people with
  missions to leading very complex organizations
• Span of influence can touch entire MAJCOMs, AF,
  DoD and theatres of war

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FD Through the Assignment Process
Member Completes the Officer Development Plan
(ODP)
Feedback
Informal
Feedback
Assignment Team Reviews the ODP
Members Chain of Command Reviews ODP
Dev Feedback
Vector
Vector
Development Team Reviews the ODP
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FD Through the Assignment Process-continued-
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• Education Training Guiding Principles
• Build skill set expertise
• Prepare for change
• Create depth of experience
• Train to mission needs
• Train like we fight
• Make training and education available
• Validate education and training through
• war games and exercises

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• Tactical-level Education Training Guiding
  Principles
• Build Air Force cultural awareness
• Bond Airmen to core values
• Build skill competence
• Build expeditionary expertise
• Build joint and coalition knowledge
• Build expertise through mentoring

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Opportunities for Developmental Education
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• Developmental Education Levels
• Basic Developmental Education (BDE)
• Designed for lieutenants and captains (Years
  1-10)
• Includes both Air and Space Basic Course (ASBC)
  which is designed for second lieutenants and
  Squadron Officer School (SOS) for captains

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• Developmental Education Levels
• -continued-
• Intermediate Developmental Education (IDE)
• Designed for majors and lieutenant colonels
  (Years 11-16)
• Includes Air Command and Staff College (and
  sister service Command and Staff Colleges), Joint
  Military Intelligence College (JMIC), Education
  With Industry (EWI) and some opportunities to
  gain advanced degrees through the Air Force
  Institute of Technology (AFIT)

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• Developmental Education Levels
• -continued-
• Senior Developmental Education (SDE)
• Designed for lieutenant colonels and colonels
  (Years 17-21)
• Includes Air War College (AWC), National War
  College (NWC), Industrial College of the Air
  Force (ICAF), Education With Industry (EWI) and
  executive-level leadership/management programs at
  Harvard University, Georgetown University,
  Stanford University, and University of
  Pennsylvania

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• Role of the Promotion System
• The objective of the officer promotion system
  is to select officers for advancement who have
  clearly demonstrated the potential to serve in
  more demanding leadership positions with the Air
  Force hierarchy. The promotion process ensures
  we have enough officers of the desired quality in
  the proper grades, to carry out the Air Force
  mission.

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• Promotion Criteria
• Officers are promoted on the principle of the
  whole-person
• Job performance-- as documented in PRFs, OPRs,
  training reports letters of evaluation
• Job responsibility scope of responsibility,
  exposure, resources managed
• Leadership in command staff positions
• Breadth depth of experience assignments,
  levels of assignments, job variety
• Academic and Professional Military Education
  appropriate level, career field relevance, how
  the education improves duty performance
• Specific achievements awards, decorations,
  quarter/annual awards, etc.

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• Promotion Criteria
• -continued-
• Equal opportunity for all officers/s determined
  by Congress
• You can be promoted below the zone (BTZ)
  (early)
• BTZ opportunity begins with promotion to
  lieutenant colonel
• 2 Lts captains are promoted on a fully
  qualified basis
• Unless you mess up and get into trouble, 2 Lts
  will be promoted to 1 Lt, two years after
  commissioning/1 Lts to captain two years later
  (4-year point)

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• Selection Boards
• Comprised of highly qualified senior officers
  from across the AF who mirror, as closely as
  possible, the offices eligible for promotion,
  e.g. aeronautical rating/career
  fields/minorities/women
• Typically in session 1 to 2 weeks
• Prior to release, results must be approved by
• HQ Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel
• Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• Secretary of the Air Force
• Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff,
• President of the United States for approval by
  the Senate
• Results typically released 6 to 8 weeks after
  board concludes

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• What does the Selection Board see in your
  Promotion Folder?
• Officer Performance Reports (OPRs) and Training
  Reports (TRs)
• Officer Selection Brief (OSB)
• Citations for U.S. Decorations
• Specialty Board Certification
• Courts-Martial orders containing or reflecting
  approved findings of guilt
• Letters to the board from eligible officers
• Letters pertaining to non-attendance, or
  ineligibility for Professional Military Education
  (PME) schools
• Letter of Not Qualified for Promotion Action from
  the commander
• Oral 368 Nonjudicial Punishment (Air Force Form
  368)
• Nonjudicial Punishment Administration (Air Force
  Form 307x Series)
• Notice Form 366 of Intent to Vacate or Suspend
  Nonjudicial Punishment (Air Force Form 366)

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• CSAF Reading List
• CATEGORY I. History of the Air Force from its
  beginning through its major transformations as an
  institution.
• Atkinson, Rick, An Army at Dawn The War in North
  Africa 1942-1943, (Henry Holt Company, Inc.).
  2002.
• Boyne, Walter J., Beyond the Wild Blue A History
  of the United States Air Force 1947-1997 (St.
  Martins Press). 1997.
• Copp, DeWitt S., Frank M. Andrews, Marshalls
  Airman, (Air Force History and Museums Program).
  2003.
• Lambeth, Benjamin S., The Transformation of
  American Air Power, (Cornell University Press).
  2000.
• Perret, Geoffrey, Winged Victory The Army Air
  Forces in World War II, (Random House). 1993.
• Added Spring 2004

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• CSAF Reading List
• CATEGORY II. Insight into ongoing conflicts and
  the frictions that can produce conflicts in the
  future.
• Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations
  and the Remaking of World Order, (Simon and
  Schuster). 1997.
• Kagan, Robert, Of Paradise and Power America and
  Europe in the New World Order, (Alfred A. Knopf,
  Inc.). 2003.
• Lewis, Bernard, The Crisis of Islam Holy War and
  Unholy Terror, (The Modern Library). 2003.
• Margolis, Eric S., War at the Top of the World
  The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet,
  (Routledge). 2001.
• Meyer, Karl E., and Shareen Blair Brysac,
  Tournament of Shadows, The Great Game and the
  Race for Empire in Central Asia, (Counterpoint).
  1999.
• Yergin, Daniel, The Prize The Epic Quest for
  Oil, Money, and Power, (Simon and Schuster).
  1990.
• Added Spring 2004

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• CSAF Reading List
• CATEGORY III. Organization, leadership, and
  success stories holding lessons for the present
  and future.
• Creech, Wilbur L., The Five Pillars of TQM How
  to Make Total Quality Management Work for You,
  (Truman Talley Books/Dutton). 1994.
• Puryear, Edgar F., American Generalship Character
  is Everything The Art of Command, (Presidio
  Press). 2000

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• CSAF Reading List
• CATEGORY IV. Lessons emerging from recent
  conflicts and the preparation for them.
• Benjamin, Dan., Simon Steve, Benjamin Daniel,
  The Age of Sacred Terror, (Random House, Inc.).
  2003.
• Clancy, Tom, with General Chuck Horner (US Air
  Force Ret.), Every Man a Tiger, (G.B. Putnams
  Sons). 1999.
• Cohen, Eliot A., Supreme Command Soldiers,
  Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime, (The Free
  Press). 2002.
• Kitfield, James, Prodigal Soldiers, (Simon and
  Schuster). 1995.
• List can be found at http//www.af.mil/csafre
  ading/
• Added Spring 2004

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• Summary
• Definition of Force Development (FD)
• FD Through the Assignment Process
• FD Through Education and Training
• Air Force Education and Training Guiding
  Principles
• Tactical-level Education and Guiding Principles
• Opportunities for Developmental Education
• Role of the Officer Evaluation System
• Role of the Promotion System
• Selection Boards
• Additional Self-Development