Some of my closer friends know that I am working on a few different articles right now for various topics, but I have one topic that is near and dear to my heart that involves training of the professional Airmen within my specialty in the United States Air Force. My post on Jun 3 was intended to get a conversation started and to challenge the status quo within our training paradigms.
For that reason alone, I have been working on a thesis for an article that is in very rough draft form, that I intend to put through a publication process. I won't disclose the details of where I intend to be published but I do want to share bits and pieces of my work to allow for some "peer reviews" as I embark on this journey.
Starting this blog was my first step towards sharing my thoughts on this subject with the world. My goal with pursuing a published article or two is to substantiate a lot of the practices I have written about in this blog already and ultimately use evidence-based research along with personal experiences to teach other practitioners how to be better at what they do.
Well, let me at least get to thesis here in the first few paragraphs so that you guys can chew on it and then let me know if you think it is something worthwhile. Ultimately, I just want to make sure this is something that other professionals would be generally interested in reading about. In addition, it would be awesome to get some feedback on possible publication sources that my peers believe would be a good home for this topic.
Working Thesis:
Air Force Special Warfare (AFSPECWAR) training entities can produce more lethal warriors, more efficiently, who are capable of meeting and exceeding the challenges yet to be faced within the changing character of war by adopting modernized training design architectures holistically. The changes needed will abolish antiquated pedagogical practices and accelerate change towards training architectures that support and enhance the performance of these specialized Airmen. A modernized framework would center around several varieties of evidence-based andragogical learning architectures whose primary focus is on end-state performance vice part-task accomplishment. In short, the "check the box" mentality needs to be thrown in the trash so a paradigm shift in training culture can begin within AFSPECWAR.
That is a long thesis statement with a lot to take in... but the questions I intend to answer are this:
Are we efficiently utilizing the 273-training days we have with these Airmen? (looking specifically at one Air Force Specialty with AFSPECWAR)
Can we do it faster without sacrificing quality?
Can we more efficiently use the 273-days and produce a more lethal warrior?
What would it take to do that?
Can we legitimately claim that our Airmen are meeting the performance requirements expected of them at the time of need?
After a 273-day training program covering 492 individual tasks, can those Airmen perform to the standard, when needed, with those tasks?
As always, please feel free to leave comments or contact me directly with questions comments and concerns. This is a life-long learner's blog after all. So, please, teach me something!!!
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