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Re-Defining the Radio Operator: Honing AFSOF's Edge for the Joint IW Fight

Re-Defining the Radio Operator: Honing AFSOF's Edge for the Joint IW Fight

Cline, John D.

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Technology & EngineeringArmed ForcesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1288293410
ISBN13: 9781288293414
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Nov 13 2012
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.05 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The purpose of this paper is to clearly demonstrate the urgent need for dedicated airborne communications expertise throughout the Air Force Special Operations Forces (AFSOF) enterprise and to propose a comprehensive solution to that need. This need is driven by an enduring Irregular Warfare-focused (IW) strategic environment and an increasingly net-centric operational environment that sustain pressing airborne communications standardization, integration, and interoperability requirements. This paper's primary argument is that the Airborne Mission Systems Specialist (AMSS, aka Radio Operator) skillset is a critical component for sustained AFSOF success in these strategic and operational environments, and thus AFSOC must reorganize its AMSS cadre into centrally controlled pools to provide standardized net-centric communications integration and interoperability capability to all of its maneuver elements and staff agencies worldwide. The wide-ranging strategic impact of re-defining the AMSS' role in AFSOC is universally decreased risk of mission failure, particularly on short-notice, no-fail national-level IW taskings.

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