Air Force announces basing candidates for Security Forces Regional Training Center Consolidation Published Dec. 14, 2011 WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Air Force officials announced candidate bases for a Security Forces Regional Training Center consolidation Dec. 14. The candidates are Camp Guernsey, Wyo.; Fort Bliss, Texas; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.; and Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. These locations, approved by Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, are now candidates to host a training center which will offer training courses attended by approximately 8,500 students per year. Consolidating Security Forces Regional Training Centers into fewer locations is part of the Air Forces Efficiencies initiative. In 2010, the Air Force Security Forces Center headquarters conducted a study to determine a more efficient method of conducting security forces training. The study found that consolidation of existing training locations would improve quality of training and provide cost savings by reducing manpower and equipment, increasing economies of scale, and further improving consistency. The consolidation would also allow Security Forces to be more responsive to Combatant Commands and increase their ability to adapt quickly to emerging enemy tactics, techniques, and procedures. Officials at the Air Force Security Forces Center headquarters will begin a detailed evaluation of the candidate bases and look at a wide range of operational and facility requirements. The results of the study will be briefed to the secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff who will then select a preferred alternative. "The Air Force uses a standardized, deliberate, repeatable and transparent process to address our basing needs," said Kathleen Ferguson, the deputy assistant secretary for installations. "These candidate bases will be analyzed to determine which location or locations will best host this mission." Air Force officials plan to announce the preferred alternative by the spring or summer of 2012.