2nd Air Force transformation driven by warfighter's needs

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  • By Lt. Col. Claudia Foss
  • 2nd Air Force director of staff
KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. (AFNS) --  Transformation is underway at 2nd Air Force here beginning with construction on a 2,000-square foot operations floor designed to support the new technical training operations center.

The new center will serve as the operational command and control hub for technical training operations across 2nd Air Force responsible for graduating approximately 245,000 American and international Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers, Marines and Coast Guardsmen annually.

"As we continue to produce the best trained, combat-ready Airmen, we're undertaking multiple initiatives to improve the training enterprise for the Air Force and its joint and coalition partners," said Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers, the 2nd Air Force commander. 

"The TTOC operations floor will serve as the 'nerve center' for technical training and enhance our ability to implement directions across the training enterprise," the general said. "The reorganization of 2nd Air Force into a command and control-enabled headquarters, in which we serve as the operational command, allows us to better synchronize the training pipeline flow from end to end. In turn, this improves our responsiveness to the warfighter's needs."

The second initiative launched with the activation of Det. 1 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, with Capt. Jeannie Sasnett as commander.

"The activation of Detachment 1 will provide 2nd Air Force with improved oversight of the Basic Military Training pipeline flow," said Jim Hollingsworth, the 2nd Air Force TTOC director.

The Det. 1 team of 43 personnel develops and maintains the yearly accession plan used by Air Force Recruiting Service to enlist Airmen and enter them into Basic Military Training throughout the fiscal year. The Det. 1 staff also works job classification and reclassification actions for Basic Military Training and technical training students, as well as making travel arrangements every week to ship 350 to 850 BMT graduates from Lackland AFB to 33 different technical training locations.

"Overall, this is a win-win for 2nd Air Force and Air Education and Training Command," General Flowers said. "The reorganization improves and consolidates training management functions and streamlines functional chains, reducing unintended duplication of efforts."

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