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Air Force chief of staff announces total force initiatives

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ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --  Gen. T. Michael Moseley, Air Force chief of staff, announced several total force initiatives during a ceremony at Maxwell AFB, Ala., Sept. 13.

For Air Force Reserve Command, these actions include: 

- Sending all of its commissioning candidates to the Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB,

- Moving a squadron with a Tuskegee Airmen heritage to the Air National Guard, and

- Hosting partnerships with two Regular Air Force units in Florida and Texas.

"While we're fully engaged in conflict on a global scale today, our efforts to revolutionize the Air Force are critical to forging an Air Force with the capability and capacity to dominate all its warfighting domains across the spectrum of 21st century conflict," General Moseley said.

Next month the Air Force Reserve will send all of its line officer commissioning candidates to OTS at Maxwell AFB. Rated officer candidates - pilots, navigators and air battle mangers - already attend OTS. Nonrated reservists went to the Air National Guard's Academy of Military Science at McGhee Tyson, Tenn.

Just down the road from Maxwell at Dannelly Field, the 100th Fighter Squadron is moving back to its Tuskegee Airmen roots. The Air National Guard's 160th Fighter Squadron at Dannelly Field will be re-designated the 100th Fighter Squadron.

The Air Force inactivated the Air Force Reserve's 100th Flying Training Squadron at Randolph AFB, Texas, on Sept. 12 and the next day directed the 39th FTS at Moody AFB, Texas, to move to Randolph AFB.

In the coming years, the Air Force will establish active associate units with Air Force Reserve F-16 wings at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., and Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Carswell Field, Texas.

Regular Air Force Airmen assigned to these active associate units will live in areas without some of the support provided on an active-duty installation, such as housing and medical care. Unlike some other Air Force Reserve locations, Homestead and Fort Worth both have combined exchange commissary stores. By being in these communities, the Airmen will integrate more with the civilian neighborhoods they are sworn to defend, said General Moseley.

In his speech at Maxwell, the general said associate units are a cost-effective way of the future because they share equipment and capitalize on the experience and skills of reservists.

"We are a total force that has been at war now continuously for 17 years in the Middle East and other crisis spots around the world," he said. "We've learned some tremendous lessons over that time and we're using those lessons to shape the way we organize, train and equip our service." (Air Force Reserve Command News Service)