In this edition of BLUE, we're taking a look at Agile Combat Employment (ACE), and how it's impacting the way you'll train and operate when you deploy. Adversaries around the globe have increasing capabilities to hold main operating bases overseas at risk. Small, unmanned aircraft systems, as well as cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles are just some of the rapid technological advancements creating this new environment. That calls for a new way of doing business, one that recognizes this change, and allows Airmen to operate in a way that gives them flexibility. Using ACE concepts, combat assets move from location to location, exploiting opportunities to attack while keeping key assets out of harm's way as much as possible. Hear from the people who are making ACE happen across the Air Force, see how ACE works, and learn why it's important that you operate this way.
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Agile Combat Employment is a strategic shift in the way Airmen operate, but it's not the first time the Air Force has changed. We visited the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio with Dr. Andrew Wackerfuss, an Air Force Historian, to talk about the eras in which the service took a new direction because of world events, and some of the aircraft associated with those changes.
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