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| Newest Books, Monographs, and Guide Books |
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Quotes for the Air Force Logistician Box Set. Why books of quotations for Air Force Logisticians? An obvious answer is there aren't any. But that’s not the only reason, and it’s certainly not the most important reason. The primary reason for producing this set was to provide a teaching resource that can be used in classroom, education, training, and mentoring programs for Air Force logisticians. It is a tool that can be used by instructors, teachers, managers, leaders, and students. It is also a tool that can be used in research settings and a resource that should stimulate comment and criticism within educational and mentoring setting. Copies of the set are provided free of charge to any Air Force logistician, educational institution, teacher, instructor, commander, or manager. What is a quote or a quotation? Quotes or quotations often mean different things to those who hear or read them. For many, it’s the repetition of something that conveys authority or illustration. For others, it’s the process of citing or bringing forward evidence of a particular point. For still others, quotes are a source of wisdom or inspiration. All of these thoughts, however, share a common thread—communicating an idea. And of perhaps more import, communicating an idea that causes some form of action: think, act, direct, inform, question, or persuade. Further, quotes can, and often do, remove the barriers associated with the written or spoken word. |
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Likewise, considerable space is devoted to the professional, educational, and career development of logisticians. In the journals’ pages, authors continually seek to demonstrate the need for logistics officers to apply sound principles of leadership, command, and planning. An important element of this trend is the inclusion of historical studies. Nearly every issue has at least one article on the history of military logistics. Other broad themes also appear. Any perusal of The Pipeline or AFJL will expose the reader to continual efforts to apply computer technology and automation to logistical support management. One of the most remarkable events of the last quarter of the 20th century was the development of computer technology, and in the AFJL, one can find a progressive record of real attempts to develop both software and hardware for present and future conflicts. Change and continuity will become evident when surveying the first 25 years of The Pipeline and AFJL. These journals present one US military service’s attempt to grapple with the monumental changes seen in the global strategic situation. When The Pipeline began publication in 1977, Cold War challenges for strategic and logistics planning dominated military thinking. Today, the challenges are decidedly different. Projection of military power must be quick and well-supplied, and logistics plays the dominant role in transporting and supporting US forces. The pages of the AFJL and the types, focus, and approach of articles provide a vivid picture of US Air Force efforts to redefine its roles and missions in the ever-changing world, with ever-changing levels of financial support. View Sixth Edition PDF version online or download the Sixth Edition PDF in zip file. |
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(AMWC) was activated at Ft Dix, New Jersey, on 1 May 1994. The brainchild of then Commander, Air Mobility Command, General Ronald R. Fogleman, it serves as the command’s single focal point for advanced education, training, and testing. Acting on General Fogleman’s vision, the center consolidated the functions of seven geographically separated units and located them adjacent to McGuire AFB, New Jersey, a major air mobility hub. The Center’s Operations Division assumed the missions of the 1492d Air Transportation Training Flight, Travis AFB, California; the Tanker Tactics Center, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota; the Combat Aircrew Training School, Nellis AFB, Nevada; and the Air Mobility School, Scott AFB, Illinois, with its operating location center at Ft Eustis, Virginia. Additionally, AMWC’s 421st Training Squadron took on the mission of the 314th Ground Combat Readiness Evaluation Squadron, Little Rock AFB, Arkansas. The 421st was redesignated 421st Ground Combat Readiness Squadron on 1 December 1997. Since offering its first course in June 1994, the AMWC curriculum catalog has grown to include more than 55 in-residence courses and more than 85 exportable courses. The number of students completing these programs is fast approaching 7,000 per year. The 33d Flight Test Squadron was activated under the AMWC on 1 October 1994. It assumed the heritage of the 33d Troop Transport Squadron and the flight test mission of the Air Mobility Center at Charleston AFB. Today the 33d is AMC’s only flight test organization, managing more than 85 ongoing tests. With the return of CONUS-based C-130s to Air Mobility Command in April 1997, AMWC also assumed responsibility for the Combat Air Delivery School, located at Little Rock AFB. The latest addition to AMWC, the Air Mobility Battle Lab stood up on 4 May 98. One of seven battlelabs Air Force-wide, this new organization is tasked to explore innovative air mobility operations, command and control, logistics, and sensor fusion concepts for airlift, aerial refueling, aeromedical evacuation, and mobility support, and to rapidly measure their potential for advancing the global reach core competency. Utilizing modeling and simulation techniques, the Battle Lab champions the evaluation, development, and exploitation of doctrine, technology, defensive systems, and tactics to support the air mobility objectives of force mobility and combat delivery. View PDF version online or download the Fourth Edition PDF file. |
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Logistics Dimensions 2004 is a two volume collection of essays and articles that looks at a broad range of logistics challenges facing the Air Force in the 21st Century. Four major themes dominate the work presented—Agile Combat Support (ACS), global support and mobility, supporting and maintaining aircraft, and contractor support and its implementation and implications. All the major articles and essays are the result of work done at the Air War College during 2003 and 2004. Specific subject areas included in Volume 1 include ACS, bare-base support in the ACS framework, global combat support systems, reducing the logistics footprint within the ACS framework, transformation, defense industrial base, global and theater mobility, and transportation technology implementation. Specific subject areas included in Volume 2 include supporting aging aircraft, integrating active Air Force and Reserve units, recapitalizing tanker aircraft, aircraft modification versus new aircraft procurement, contractor support and contractors on the battlefield, and financial management as a force multiplier. Call for your copy today. Volume 1: View PDF version online or download the PDF file. Volume 2: View PDF version online or download the PDF file. |
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Legislation passed in 1999 mandates that petroleum consumption by government vehicles be reduced 20 percent by 2005. Additionally, alternative fuels must be used the majority of the time in those vehicles designated as bi-, flex-, and dual-fuel. To determine whether or not the government can reach the necessary reduction percentage, a viable baseline has to be established. Without a solid starting point, any data collected by the 2005 deadline would be compromised. With annual requirements for reporting vehicle fuel-consumption data to the Department of Energy and the reporting complexities alternative fuels bring about, it was perceived that current data collection systems were not accurately capturing the required types and amounts of fuel data. The Air Force Logistics Readiness Directorate was concerned that too many times, vehicles were filled from unmetered, organizational tanks and that this consumption was not being reported to the appropriate systems. The directorate also expressed concern that the Vehicle Identification Link key program had few, if any, safeguards against abuses. The main objective of the research contained herein was to ascertain if fuel consumption is captured accurately within the data systems for reporting requirements and decision making. |
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of Print Air Force Maintenance
Personnel Cost and Valuation Retention
of experienced Air Force maintenance personnel has declined for several
years. Attempts to reverse this trend by increasing selective reenlistment
bonuses (SRB) for maintenance personnel have met with mixed success.
Increased competition for SRB dollars from other functional areas makes it
much more difficult for aircraft maintenance functional managers to obtain
the increases in SRBs they need to retain critical enlisted maintenance
expertise. This competition for funds, coupled with increased scrutiny by
Air Force leadership on expenditure of personnel dollars and the benefit
those dollars produced, necessitated a new approach in determining and
defending SRB recommendations.
In 2001, the Air Force Director of Maintenance initiated the Keep Enlisted Experience Program (KEEP) to provide commanders and supervisors of maintenance personnel with specific criteria and information designed to help improve the retention of experienced enlisted maintenance personnel. While most of the criteria and tools created by KEEP are used in the field, other aspects of the program were designed to assist headquarters maintenance functional managers with their efforts to improve retention. In March 2001, the Air Force Director of Maintenance tasked the Air Force Logistics Management Agency (AFLMA) to provide detailed analyses of selected maintenance AFSCs to support efforts to retain more experienced personnel. Because of RAND’s previous work with Air Force retention and personnel issues, AFLMA partnered with RAND to accomplish the tasking. RAND’s expertise in modeling—specifically its Compensation, Accessions, and Personnel Management (CAPM) Model—was used to estimate the effect of different monetary incentives (SRBs and proficiency pay) on retention. In addition, output from the CAPM model allowed the team to analyze how the changes in retention affected cost, experience, and work-force effectiveness and productivity. The combined efforts of AFLMA and RAND generated a sound proof of concept process that met the objectives of the research tasking. |
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From peacekeeping, to feeding starving nations, to conducting counter-drug operations, to homeland defense, the military must continue to adapt to evolving missions and working with a broad range of allies or coalition partners. Logistics infrastructure and processes must evolve to support the new spectrum of demands and challenges. New technological advances must be capitalized and integrated into the support infrastructure. Similarly, the logistics community must examine existing processes through a variety of studies and analyses and look for ways to make quantitative and qualitative improvements. Accepted theories, practices, and processes need to be examined and, where necessary, challenged and changed. Two concepts dominate Air Force logistics today: Focused Logistics at the joint level and Agile Combat Support within the Air Force. The vision of both these concepts is the ability to fuse information, transportation, and other logistics technologies to provide rapid response, track and shift assets while en route, and deliver tailored logistics packages at all levels of operations or war. This same vision includes enhanced transportation, mobility, and pinpoint delivery systems. Air Force logistics will also change as a result of the Chief’s Logistics Review (CLR). At the heart of the CLR is changing Air Force logistics to meet the challenges of expeditionary airpower. |
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| Today's Logistics is a collection of essays, articles, and studies that are very much about change, innovation, and finding ways to improve processes and products. The majority of the writings deal with improving specific facets of Air Force logistics: supply, transportation, maintenance, contracting, and prepositioning. However, other works have been included that focus on logistics thought, theory, crime, and history. Much of the material is based on work performed by the staff at the Air Force Logistics Management Agency. Out of print. No reprint planned. View PDF version online or download the PDF file. |
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USAF Supply Pride, Dedication, Professionalism. When the National Security Act of 1947 formally established the United States Air Force as a separate Service, it also created the need for an entity known as Air Force supply. For more than 50 years, the men and women of the supply community have sought to provide outstanding support to both our pilots and support personnel. And for those 50 years, they have succeeded. Supply troops played an integral role in supporting the Berlin Airlift. Their efforts indirectly saved millions of lives as tons of food were delivered to a city under siege. Supply and fuels troops were there to support the American forces in Korea, nearly half a world away. Accomplishments such as furnishing external fuel tanks for our F-86 aircraft meant that the United States would be able to stem the flow of Communist aggression in that far corner of the world. In Vietnam, it was the supply structure that sent millions of tons of support equipment and spare parts to support our fighting forces. More recently, the supply community fueled the efforts to thwart the expansionist efforts of Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf, and they also fed scores of hungry children in Somalia. In Kosovo, supply excelled again, as the Air Force successfully conducted the longest aerial campaign ever. In the last 50 years, wherever the United States has fought, has reached out a helping hand, or has established a presence of peace, Air Force supply has been there. |
| Out of print; only available as a PDF. View PDF file online or download the PDF version. In a sense, the expeditionary use of airpower is not something new. In fact, one might argue that expeditionary airpower was present in the skies over Mexico in 1916, as the nascent air service chased Pancho Villa. Further, one could argue that airpower was expeditionary in each of the world wars and Korea as well. However, the force being molded today differs drastically from these historical predecessors. Rather than being reactive, airpower must now be proactive to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. Today’s definition of expeditionary airpower means a rapid response force that is light, lean, and tailored to mission needs. That being said, how does the Air Force become the expeditionary force we need today? What are the challenges, opportunities, and initiatives that need examination? And perhaps more important, how do existing logistics concepts and principles need to change to support expeditionary airpower. Expeditionary Logistics: Issues and Strategy for the New Millennium examines a number of these questions through a collection of selected readings. | 
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Contractors
on the Battlefield is a collection of seven articles or essays
that lets the reader look broadly at many of the initiatives involved with
and the issues surrounding the increasing role of contractor support for
the US military. It is by no means all encompassing. The very nature of
the subject prevents this. These works were selected primarily to
stimulate interest, thought, and action. In today's military environment,
this thought-provoking monograph is a must read. Out of print; only
available as a PDF. View PDF file online or download
the PDF version.
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Global Thinking, Global Logistics is a collection of articles and essays by many authors with diverse interests and approaches. It contains four distinct areas of interest as we enter the 21st century: competitive sourcing and privatization, logistics support, logistics history and doctrine, and current challenges. Out of print; only available as a PDF. View PDF file online or download the PDF version. |
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