The concept, which is part of a larger initiative to make the Air Force capable of operating in a dispersed manner over huge geographical area, gives airmen multiple responsibilities beyond their core specializations. This can include defending their outpost from enemy attack, refueling and rearming jets, and more.
America’s most capable and complex combat aircraft are beginning to operate from new, untraditional locales with minimal support.
The USAF needs to adapt since adversaries would try to neutralize established facilities in the opening phases of any potential high-end conflict.
The ability to rush small detachments of unmanned aircraft to remote, forward locations could enable all new operational concepts.
A single task force of stealth fighters and rescue aircraft could offer a new model for crisis response missions.
Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command are getting creative when it comes to poking holes in enemy anti-access/area denial capabilities
