{"id":22931,"date":"2018-03-13T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/13\/information-operations-airmen-get-their-own-school\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:42:37","slug":"information-operations-airmen-get-their-own-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/training-sim\/2018\/03\/13\/information-operations-airmen-get-their-own-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Information operations officers get their own school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Air Force officers in the newly formed 14F information operations<\/a> career field will get their own technical training school in late fiscal 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a March 5 release, the Air Force said the new school will be set up at Hurlburt Field in Florida. It will be a 14- to 15-week-long Initial Skills Course and will consolidate and integrate content from several related training courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information operations<\/a> career field, created in October 2016, includes airmen<\/a> who use a variety of \u201cinformation-related capabilities\u201d to \u201cinfluence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp the decision making of selected audiences to create desired effects,\u201d according to a directory of Air Force specialty codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The website for the Air Force\u2019s Air University said the capabilities used by the career field include electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception and operations security.<\/p>\n\n\n\t