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JEANNE M. HOLM OFFICER ACCESSION AND CITIZEN DEVELOPMENT CENTER
The Jeanne M. Holm Officer Accession and Citizen Development Center is located at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., and was created June 2008. The organization was redesignated as the umbrella organization for Air Force officer recruitment and training within the Air University.
Mission
Develop the best Air Force leaders and citizens of character dedicated to serving the nation.
Personnel and Resources
The Holm Center includes more than 2,900 active-duty members and civilian personnel. The organization has 2,006 operating locations worldwide and more than 120,000 students.
Organization
The Holm Center produces approximately 73 percent of Air Force line officers and trains 100 percent of the Air Force chaplain, nurse and medical specialties and legal officers. These new officers join active duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units.
Holm Officer Accession and Citizen Development Center
The Holm Center commander provides coordinated leadership and policy direction for the Air Force's officer recruiting, training and commissioning programs at AFROTC detachments at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico and at OTS. The Holm Center staff develops curriculum and provides communications, computers, logistics, instructors and financial management support to train tomorrow's Air Force officers. The Holm Center also directs the Air Force's high school citizenship training program, Air Force Junior ROTC, and is home to Civil Air Patrol-USAF.
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
Air Force ROTC is the largest and oldest source of commissioned officers for the Air Force. The organization's mission is to produce leaders for the Air Force. AFROTC is located on 144 college and university campuses, with 984 additional schools participating in cross-town agreements that allow their students to attend AFROTC classes at an area host school. This program commissions approximately 2,000 second lieutenants each year.
Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps
Air Force Junior ROTC provides citizenship training and an aerospace science program for high school youth. Enrollment in the Junior ROTC program is open to all young people who are in the 9th or higher grade and a United States citizen. The objectives of the junior program are to educate and train high school cadets in citizenship; promote community service; instill responsibility, develop character, and self-discipline; and provide instruction in air and space fundamentals.
Located on more than 879 high school campuses across the United States and selected Department of Defense dependent schools overseas, Air Force Junior ROTC instructs, mentors and guides more than 102,000 students daily, including more than 1,600 students at 18 overseas units. The AFJROTC program is expected to expand to 955 units in the future.
Officer Training School
Officer Training School is the "flexible partner" of Air Force commissioning programs. The organization's mission is to train and commission quality officers for the Air Force. Depending on each year's production requirements, OTS has the flexibility to increase or decrease production.
In the past, OTS has surged to meet wartime officer requirements, producing as many as 7,894 new second lieutenants in one year. OTS provides three officer training programs: Basic Officer Training, Commissioned Officer Training and Reserve Commissioned Officer Training. Together they produce about 2,000 trained officers annually, which equated to 46 percent of all Air Force officer accessions for 2007.
Basic Officer Training is an intensive 12-week program that prepares officer trainees for the physical and professional requirements of military service. This training commissions an average of 500-700 new second lieutenants annually.
Commissioned Officer Training is a 4.5-week program that provides military and leadership training for Air Force judge advocates, chaplains, medical services officers (doctors, nurses, dentists, biomedical science corps officers and hospital administrators), and medical scholarship recipients. It provides military training for about 1,100 officers yearly. These officers are trained for active duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units.
The Reserve COT course is a 13-day intensive program designed for hard-to-recruit Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard medical service officers. Students are commissioned before training. The military rank of COT students is awarded based on the professional credentials in their respective fields. Student ranks typically range from second lieutenants to lieutenant colonels.
Civil Air Patrol - U.S. Air Force
An active-duty unit, Civil Air Patrol-U.S. Air Force, is collocated with the CAP National Headquarters and provides Air Force support, liaison and oversight of CAP. The CAP-USAF staff directs more than 350 members at more than 45 detachments nationwide, and provides advice and assistance to the full-time corporate staff. CAP members manage all aspects of their day-to-day operations. The CAP program has more than 60,000 members in 52 wings, one in each state, as well as in Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. CAP units also exist at several American installations overseas.
Vision
Cultivate a culture and environment of continuous learning, enthusiasm, pride and tradition.
History
An effort to reduce duplication of effort and streamline administrative and reporting procedures was completed in February 1997 by realigning Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and Officer Training School under Headquarters Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools. This restructuring placed about three-quarters of Air Force officer production under AFOATS and facilitated the sharing of manpower and expertise with minimum effect on the day-to-day operations of AFROTC or OTS. In June 2008, AFOATS was redesignated as the Jeanne M. Holm Officer Accession and Citizen Development Center.
Point of Contact
Headquarters Air University, Office of Public Affairs, 55 LeMay Plaza South, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112, DSN 493-6371 or 334-953-6371.
September 2009
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