air force officer basic training is an 8 - week program.
air force officer basic training is an 8 - week program.
how long is air force officer basic training?
8 - week program
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the usaf tacp officer or tacpo (formerly air liaison officer) is assigned to an asos or asoc as the usaf airpower advocate, subject-matter expert, and advisor to his or her aligned army or marine staff. until 2009, this usaf officer was a rated officer. in 2005, then captain mark r. wisher submitted an innovative development through employee awareness (idea) report submission through the air force's idea program office based on his 2004 master's thesis which proposed the creation of a brand new non-rated alo career field. the idea program submission was staffed at headquarters af (haf/a3o) for consideration and ultimately resulted in a haf-funded rand report that was completed in 2008. the rand report relied heavily on the previous research of wisher, john olivero, and raymond knox. the rand report ultimately concurred with wisher's recommendation to create a non-rated alo career field. the following year, the usaf created a new non-rated air liaison officer afsc, 13l, to form a career force of professional air liaison officers and the af began the first beta class of non-rated alos in the summer of 2009. upon completion of initial qualification training, these non-rated officers are awarded the 13l afsc. sometime in 2019, the air force changed the name of the 13l afsc from air liaison officer to tacp officer. potential 13ls will first attend a two phase assessment and selection process before attending their initial skills training. phase i involves completing an application and past that is submitted to a review board of tacp officers. if the review board sees potential in a candidate, they will invite the candidate to phase ii, also called topt (tacp officer phase two). topt involves one week of extensive testing and evaluation by tacp cadre to see if candidates are capable of operating in the rigorous tacpo career field. events at topt include numerous written and psychological tests and interviews, group leadership problems (glps), long distance runs and ruck marches with combat gear and rigorous physical training. if candidates are selected they will attend the tacp officer prep course followed by the tacp officer basic course based at lackland afb, tx; the joint firepower course (jfc) and basic alo skills course (basc) at nellis afb, nv; and finally air force sere school at fairchild afb, wa. the tacpo represents the joint/combined forces air component commander as a member of the army commander's special staff at the battalion through corps echelons in a coalition, joint, or interagency force. he or she provides subject matter expertise to lead, plan, and manage command-and-control and terminal execution of air, space, and cyber operations in direct support of land component forces. the tacpo assists in developing fire support coordination plans to include close air support (cas), air interdiction (ai), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (isr), electronic warfare (ew), and suppression/destruction of enemy air defenses (sead/dead). the tacpo may engage enemy forces using advanced technologies and weapon systems to direct lethal and non-lethal fires and effects in close proximity to friendly forces as a joint terminal attack controller (jtac). additional tacpo training may include, but are not limited to:
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