{"id":39733,"date":"2023-09-12T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/09\/12\/air-force-creates-task-forces-to-pilot-modern-deployments\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:20:15","slug":"air-force-creates-task-forces-to-pilot-modern-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2023\/09\/12\/air-force-creates-task-forces-to-pilot-modern-deployments\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force creates task forces to pilot modern deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. \u2014 The Air Force in fiscal 2024 will experiment with further changes to how it deploys airmen, service leaders announced at the Air and Space Force Association\u2019s annual Air, Space and Cyber Conference here this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday the service is creating three \u201cair task forces,\u201d or packages of airmen that the Air Force can offer to Pentagon planners to tackle crises around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two teams will be assigned to U.S. Central Command while a third will focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2023\/08\/09\/inside-the-air-forces-massive-mobility-war-game-in-the-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Pacific<\/a>. Squadrons that become part of those task forces will start training together next summer as part of the two-year cycle now in place to adequately prepare airmen for combat, and begin deploying together in fiscal 2026, according to an Air Force spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force has not said which units will staff the task forces or where they will be located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal is the Air Force\u2019s attempt to mirror the force packages put forward by the other armed forces \u2014 like a Navy carrier strike group \u2014 to offer a standard set of combat capabilities to commanders around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese are not the final, permanent deployable units we expect to form, but they are a major step in the right direction and we will learn from this experience,\u201d Kendall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2023\/08\/07\/expeditionary-air-base-teams-to-begin-deploying-in-october\/\" target=\"_blank\">refining its idea for new expeditionary teams<\/a> for months. Air task forces would replace air expeditionary wings and expeditionary air base teams in the evolving lexicon of terms used to describe those who fight America\u2019s air wars on short-notice deployments overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s part of an attempt to move away from the longtime approach of deploying airmen piecemeal as jobs open up overseas, or dispatching flying squadrons on a one-off basis without the attached support staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with more predictable schedules and ample training, the Air Force hopes its budding force-generation model will lead to more capable expeditionary units that can function away from brick-and-mortar bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Gen. Jim Slife, the Air Force\u2019s deputy chief of staff for operations who is nominated to become its vice chief of staff, told reporters here Tuesday that each task force will include four elements: a command staff; mission-generation forces like pilots and maintainers; combat support troops like civil engineering; and base support airmen like security forces and contract specialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to build \u2026 air task forces that have those elements without drawing from 93 bases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airmen who staff the air task forces are expected to handle tasks that fall outside their usual job description, like cooks that can drive a forklift, Slife said. More specialized jobs, like explosive ordnance disposal or air traffic control, would be left to those who are properly trained to do them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the capabilities that an air task force may offer depends on where it\u2019s going, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re going to [U.S. Indo-Pacific Command] to do a series of exercises, you may not need a substantial force protection capability as part of that task force,\u201d Slife said. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to [U.S. Central Command], where there is a large main operating base that is reasonably well-developed, you may not need as many civil engineers as if you were going to build it from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials believe that more routinely deploying support airmen like security forces and civil engineers will likely mean fewer services at home. That could mean closing one base gate or a runway because there isn\u2019t enough staff to keep them open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Slife said that\u2019s a necessary tradeoff for the Air Force to succeed in the modern era of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt largely works in a relatively uncontested environment where you have large, main fixed operating bases that you know are going to be free from attack,\u201d he said of the past approach. \u201cThat\u2019s not the world we\u2019re living in anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pilot program is the Air Force\u2019s attempt to mirror the troop packages put forward by the other armed forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":67,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"2":{"categories":["your-military","news","home"],"primary_category":"your-military"},"10":{"categories":["afa-air-space","air","digital-show-dailies"],"primary_category":"afa-air-space"}}},"categories":[101,24,16,26,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3392],"class_list":["post-39733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-news","category-newsletters","category-your-air-force"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"Y2K7MSXTYBEFJM72XEQPW36I4U","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-air-force\/2023\/09\/12\/air-force-creates-task-forces-to-pilot-modern-deployments\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Air Force creates task forces to pilot modern deployments - Air Force TImes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The pilot program is the Air Force\u2019s attempt to mirror the troop packages put forward by the other armed forces.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Air Force creates task forces to pilot modern deployments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The pilot program is the Air Force\u2019s attempt to mirror the troop packages put forward by the other armed forces.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2023\/09\/12\/air-force-creates-task-forces-to-pilot-modern-deployments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Air Force TImes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-12T22:56:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-07T21:20:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rachel S. 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