The Pros And Cons Of The United States Air Force

1. The United States Air Force, like many great organizations is often known to be a very large entity, and with this large entity remains the difficulty organizing the many components that that run the large machine known as the Air Force. The Air Force currently contains several advantages and disadvantages that it faces when it comes to its team operations in the field. One great advantage is the ability to operate in air, space and cyberspace with ease but often face slight errors in intelligence in these fields. Problems such as odd and often difficult deployments for officers and enlisted occur and even though some problems have been fixed other difficulties still exist when it comes to deploying Americas Airmen. But the Air Force has

But now it is important in this modern day’s military that coordination is invaluable within the military in terms of being on the figurative same page as the other branches, given the amount publicity the branches revived over incidents such as the Kunduz hospital airstrike “in which AC-130 gunship aircraft mistook the clinic for a nearby government building that had been seized by Taliban fighters” (BBC.com, 2015). Events in which an incident could have been prevented with other forms of intelligence such as confirming the exact whereabouts of Taliban fighters. To even during this part of the United States war on terror in which “US Central Command believed it caused deaths of 64 civilians” (abcnews.go.com, 2016). Incidents could have also been prevented with greater coordination such as in previous conflicts such as desert storm and the nicknamed Highway of Death in which failed intelligence resulted in a disproportionate amount of force being used on almost nonexistent enemy combatants that had left the area of operations in which the “US planes trapped the convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours”

As the number of deployments declined since the surge in the Afghan theater of war, many pilot officers are continuing to receive high numbers of deployments due to new Iraqi operations opening. Many of these pilots and combat controllers are continuing to be deployed in large numbers, these large number of deployments have taken a toll on the Air Force officer staff especially from the pilots who now feel due to the lack of other pilot officers their duties have increased and now see less commitment to the Air Force “as commercial airline industry embarks on a prolonged hiring wave fueled by many of its senior pilots” (James, 2016). This has weakened many teams to simply having officers overworked, deployed and at an often 1:1 deployed to dwell ratio. The core problem to this situation is the lack of pilots and this has been showed in the Air Force pilot “shortfall is expected to grow from 500 to more than 700 pilots” (James, 2016). Current efforts are not directed towards hiring new pilots but rather to retain many current pilots from being acquired by private airline industries. The severity of this problem going unchecked to carry many significant consequences to the teams and leaders of the Air Force. In history, many overstretched and overworked officers are not a hundred percent effective towards their men and steps would be needed to reinforce the combat efficiency of the teams preforming