DAF to the Fight
The primary role of airpower in joint air operations.
What is to achieve control of the air?
This MAJCOM's primary mission is to "recruit, train, and educate exceptional Airmen."
What is Air Education and Training Command (AETC)?
This USSF Field Command exists to protect America and our allies in, from, and to space... now and into the future.
What is Space Operations Command (SpOC)?
Air Force Handbook 1 defines this as demonstrating reliability, honesty, and taking responsibility for the behaviors of self and team.
What is Accountability?
General C.Q. Brown, Jr. calls this the "answer" for providing the nation with air superiority, global strike, and rapid global mobility.
What is Airpower?
This command delivers, supports, and sustains war-winning capabilities for the Air Force.
What is Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)?
The mission of this Field Command is to develop and field dominant space capabilities by advancing an expert workforce.
What is Space Systems Command (SSC)?
According to Bill Wiersma's book The Power of Professionalism, professionalism is not about your specific job, but about this.
What is how you do your job?
Space Control, Global Mission Operations, and Space Access.
What are the three core functions of the US Space Force?
Headquartered in Hawaii, this command provides air, space, and cyber capabilities to ensure regional stability in the Indo-Pacific.
What is Pacific Air Forces (PACAF)?
This Field Command prepares the USSF to prevail through innovative education, training, doctrine, and tests.
What is Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM)?
The Merriam-Webster definition of a "profession" requires specialized knowledge and this type of preparation.
What is long and intensive academic preparation?
The USAF core function that involves holding a target at risk or striking it rapidly and persistently.
What is Global Precision Attack?
This component has a unique dual mission: a federal mission for mobilization and a state mission to protect life and property.
What is the Air National Guard (ANG)?
This enterprise function involves the detection, characterization, and prediction of activities in the space domain.
What is Space Domain Awareness?
Former CSAF Gen. Ronald Fogleman stated that standards must be uniformly known, non-selectively enforced, and this.
What is consistently applied?
The Department of the Air Force's concept for connecting sensors and shooters across all domains into a single network.
What is Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)?
This MAJCOM provides "rapid global mobility...right effects, right place, right time" through airlift and aeromedical evacuation.
What is Air Mobility Command (AMC)?
Based on Air Force Doctrine Publications, this is the primary purpose of military doctrine.
What is to establish a common framework and understanding of military functions?
In the B-52 case study, the navigator failing to complete the full checklist and opting to "spot-check" the missiles was a failure in this area.
What are Standards and Professionalism?