00916294 3-8055 SECRET Reviewed IAW EO12958 ** Exemption 25X5 ** 7 MAR 19 2441134 07-01-1971 2441499 06-30-1972

Air Training Command

HISTORY K220.01 V.1 VOL 1 OF 23 25805 6 462 20 2447531 01-04-1989 Contains data on the accomplishments of the Air Training Command (ATC). CHAPTER 1 deals with Command requirements and organization. Covers background of the Command; Command requirements as effecting personnel procurement, training requirements, as well as wartime and emergency needs; Command organization dealing with actions in ATC Headquarters, internal changes, and integration of Headquarters United States Air Force (USAF) recruiting service in Headquarters (HQ) ATC; transfer of the national advertising program; organizational actions in the field that cameos the concept of the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF), activation of the Air Force (AF) Skill Center, reorganization of intermediate headquarters’ renumbering of Wings in the Command, and the establishment of the social actions organization. CHAPTER 2 details Command resources and general operation of the Command. Surveys the personnel Force Command and staff key personnel, overall personnel strengths, responses to personnel overages and shortages, quality force concept, reenlistment and retention efforts, and steps required to refine the personnel force; training base structure with a view on statistics, military and technical training bases, and flying training bases; the aircraft inventory that analyzes aircraft availability and utilization, accident rates, comparison of accident rates of 1970 and 1971, 1971 honors received by the Command for flight safety, as well as aircraft accident prevention program; and funding. CHAPTER 3 highlights personnel procurement. Screens new programs and incentives that focuses on guaranteed enlistment, associated management actions, and the minority officer program; records data of prior service personnel, women in the Air Force, project 100/mental IV, medically remedial enlistement program, intensified recruitment of Navajo indians, and college graduate enlistements; accession of officers for the airman commissioning program, officers’ training school women in the Air Force (WAF’s), nurse procurement, medical specialist procurement, dietitians and dietetic interns, physical therapists, and occupational therapists; reorganization actions; improvements for the recruiting force listing resources and housing, training, and community relations. CHAPTER 4 looks at military training. Surveys programs and problems such as attrition in basic military training (BMT) as well as officers’ training schools, and drugs; basic military training related to sixth annual review of BMT, evaluation of tasks and behaviors in BMT, impact of racial problems on BMT, efforts to upgrade BMT, and airman supplemental military training; officers’ training school evaluation and upgrade efforts, projected name change, and development of a core curriculum for precommissioning schools. CHAPTER V reviews pilot and navigator training programs and related activities. Considers the undergraduate pilot training production goals and accomplishments; courses of instruction in the upgrade pilot training (UPT) during fiscal year 1972; training for German students; training for military assistance program personnel, and centralized flight screening UPT; approaches to a 210 hour jet pilot training program with background, findings of test program evaluations, findings of UPT field evaluation reports, and proposal of 210 hour jet UPT program; future UPT that recounts early development, inhouse interim UPT study, instructional system development as applied to future UPT, Lockheed/Northrop final reports on future UPT, and USAF mission analysis on future UPT from 1975 through 1990; pilot indoctrination program (PIP) for the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA); undergraduate navigator training course of study; fiscal year 1972 production of navigators; and undergraduate navigator training system associated with aircraft and simulators; advanced navigator training that covers navigator/bombadier training, FB-111 aircraft navigator/bombadier upgrade and system training, B-52 aircraft SCRAM missile upgrade training, basic electronic warfare training, specialized electronic training of non-flying as well as AN/ALQ-T-5 equipment training, electronic warfare refresher training, electronic warfare training for Canadian forces, senior staff navigator training, navigator instructor training, navigator/observer utilization field flying, and specialties (NOUFFSS). CHAPTER 6 records information on advanced flying and specialized training. Summarizes survival training related to consolidation and post Southeast Asia (SEA) plans for fiscal year 1972 program; USAFA survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE) program; pilot instructor training, USAF instrument flight center (IFC), and others. CHAPTER 7 presents activities related to technical training. Has an overview of the technical training program; TDY to school; contract training; type 5 training problems; Fort Monmouth communications/electronics training; Fort Lee food service/open mess management training; government accounting officer review of ATC recall of type 5 courses; assumption of joint service nuclear training; management actions of advanced personnel data systems; and a technical training subsystem (TRAMIS); training medium modifications related to instructional systems development, career development course (CDC) format changes, specialty training standards (STS) changes, and skill knowledge test (SKT) development field test documentation changes to regulations, management of students which reviews requirements additional student squadrons, 7 hour training day test, transportation to school question, student orders problem, disposition of school eliminees, and inspections at Sheppard Air Force Base; standard evaluation team capability established; graduate evaluation questionnaire system; technical training course management of information systems system (TCMIS). CHAPTER 8 views the ATC role in systems acquisition. Lists information related to automatic data processing (ADP) system procurement, weakness in management of ADP buys, short range attack missile (SCRAM) procurement, and a Worldwide Military Command and Control ADP System (WWMCCS). CHAPTER 9 highlights Command accomplishments and problems. Has information on personnel, training, mission procurement, and related problems. Narrative volume also includes an appendix and glossary. NOFORN