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Air Force considers ECS training

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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (USTCNS) -- As the Air Force continues to adopt an Air and Space Expeditionary Force mindset, Air Mobility Command seeks to help by creating Expeditionary Combat Support, or ECS, training.

"The Air Force chief of staff is very focused on Expeditionary Combat Support. ECS represents the essential capabilities, functions, activities, and tasks necessary to quickly deploy anywhere in the world to set up and sustain aviation and ground combat operations in any environment -- from a major existing base, to bare-base locations like the ones that we found in Afghanistan. They were in pretty sad shape before we made them operational," said Lt. Gen. John R. Baker. "To do that, you need to create an expeditionary mindset, and a training environment where we can synchronize the training of all the right ECS specialties.

"Right now," said Baker, "the training for all that exists, but it's in different places and segregated by specialty." Air Force leaders are exploring the option to create a center for excellence for ECS contingency training.

AMC's primary contingency training, Phoenix Readiness, is one possibility. This program brings together more than 20 Air Force specialties from all commands, with a focus on the expeditionary nature of the Air Force. The Air Mobility Warfare Center at Fort Dix, N.J., near McGuire AFB, conducts the training.

"You could think of it as the 'Red Flag' of Expeditionary Combat Support with Air Mobility Command as the host," said Baker.

The training would also support the chief of staff's AEF vision as articulated in an Aug. 5 CSAF Sight Picture to deploy units as a flight, squadron or wing.

Plans are for the AMWC to expand and consolidate core training, so that not only the deploying leadership, but also mid-level supervisors (officers and NCOs), have the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and limitations and how they work together.

Baker said the training would allow airmen from different ECS specialties to learn how to deploy as cohesive expeditionary flights, squadrons or wings, then together, build, augment, or sustain a forward operating location.

"We want to have the capability to tailor a force with the right kind of leadership and understand how they mesh together," Baker said. "If they're going to an airfield that already has a military presence, you don't need as many people. If you're going to a place that's been bombed and its buildings are all blown up, and the comm infrastructure is a chocolate mess, you're going to need a lot of different people."

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