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The unit of action is really a

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construct of how the Air Force presents

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forces to the joint force to the

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Secretary of Defense . We have evolved

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from individuals deploying as

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individuals and meeting at a deployed

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environment and creating a team and

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becoming mission ready in theater to

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bigger groupings of folks from a

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smaller number of locations in the

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current a process that's way to what's

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next in the air task forces . While the

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air task force may still come from

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three or four different locations and

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not all at the same specific place .

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It's smaller groupings of larger forces

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in a command and control layer , a

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mission gen force element layer and a

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sustaining layer that train together

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over a 12 to 18 month period before

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they are available and go into a

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rotational tasking and or emergent

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tasking the combat wings that

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we're talking about that we're defining

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as a unit of action going forward ,

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really takes those same elements ,

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those same layers and defines them at a

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singular location . So the command

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element , the mission gen force

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elements , the sustaining elements are

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all at one location and we have them

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resourced and trained to execute all of

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the war fighting functions that they'll

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be required to do when they deploy or

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if they deploy for rotational or

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emergent tasks .