AFFORGEN 101
The Air Force’s sustainable, capacity‐driven model for presenting forces to Joint Force Commanders.
What is AFFORGEN?
What are the four rotational phases of readiness in the AFFORGEN cycle?
What is the Ready Phase, Available Phase, Reset Phase, and Prepare Phase?
This is an integrated set of UTCs that the USAF uses to offer operational capability to Joint Force Commanders.
What is a force element?
This force element provides sufficient forces to bring an airbase to IOC status that contains capabilities to support most missions or weapon systems and will integrate with Open Airbase and C2 FEs as required.
What is the Establish the Airbase (FE)?
____ are Airmen who can perform specific tasks outside of their core AFSC which may or may not include cross-utilization training.
What are Multi-capable airmen (MCA)?
The AFFORGEN's _____ is to enable operational preparedness and readiness recovery to compete with peer competitors while focusing USAF efforts on a predictable and sustainable force offering.
What is INTENT?
This phase consists of large force exercises, joint exercises, and the need to maintain peak readiness.
What is the Ready phase?
This force element provides the capabilities to establish an Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) C2 structure to include initial wing, operations, maintenance, mission support, and medical group commanders and staffs. It enables C2 of all AEW forces, including MG FEs, from AEW locations.
What is the Command and Control (C2) FE?
This force element enhances combat support and combat service support capabilities beyond what the EAB FE provides and brings an airbase to full operating capability. This force element also enhances force protection, communications, cargo handling, and quality of life activities such as Chaplain Corps, services, health care, and reach-back capabilities.
What is the Operate the Airbase FE?
The RAT includes ___ Ready Training Areas (RTAs).
What is 12 RTAs?
AFFORGEN establishes a ___ month rotational cycle with ___ month phases.
What is a 24-month rotational cycle with 6-month phases?
This phase consists of basic unit training, upgrade training, and aircraft readiness recovery.
What is the Reset Phase?
This element provides capabilities to open an airbase, regardless of follow‐on mission. It consists of the initial capabilities for command and control (C2), force protection, cargo and passenger handling, logistics, airfield operations, force accountability, finance and contracting, host nation support, reception, and bed‐down of follow‐on forces.
What is the Open the Airbase FE?
This force element provides additional combat support and combat service support to increase the robustness of the capabilities already in place through previous FEs. It contains those support forces that would typically not arrive until 30 days after an operating location has been established. It supports multiple MG FEs through additive capability. This FE is intended to enable the largest‐scale enduring expeditionary operating locations.
What is the Robust the Airbase FE?
____ is the next generation of individual baseline readiness training, moving away from the previous just‐in‐time training model, ensuring that all Airmen are more lethal, survivable, and resilient.
What is Ready Airman Training (RAT)?
What are the four rotational phases airmen will be assigned to?
What is A, B, C, and D?!
This phase consists of advanced/full spectrum training and multi-unit tactics and training.
What is the Prepare Phase?
This force element provides combat, combat support (those that are specifically identified on the aviation/operational UTC’s mission capability statement), and combat service support capability.
What is the Mission Generation FE?
Teams composed primarily of UTCs from units or capabilities that operate independently, including unique, highly specific, combat, combat support, or combat service support capabilities.
What is a DFT?
_____ is a proactive and reactive scheme of maneuver executed within threat timelines to increase survivability while generating combat power. It is also a way of generating, projecting, sustaining, and preserving airpower that shifts operations from large, centralized, and often vulnerable infrastructures to networks of smaller‐footprint dispersed locations to increase force survivability, complicate adversary planning, and provide more options to joint force commanders for power projection.
What is Agile Combat Employment (ACE)?
All ___ will align their forces into the AFFORGEN Model.
What is MAJCOMs?
This phase consists of rotational deployments, the ready response force, and SECDEF taskings.
What is the Available Phase?
This is the Global Force Management recognized term for combined command and control (C2), Establish the Airbase (EAB), and Operate the Airbase (OAB) FEs. It is an approx. 680-personnel team of ACS Airmen who train, certify, and deploy together.
What is the Expeditionary Airbase (XAB)?
____ are designed to be tailorable but not divisible.
What are AFFORGEN Force Elements?
The DoD established the ____________________ framework for senior decision -makers to organize and display every dollar, person, and piece of equipment in the Future Years Defense Program.
Hint: Four words
What is the Forces and Infrastructure Categories (FIC)?