Organizational function of the United States Air force

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The United States Air Force (USAF) is huge organization. A lot of planning goes into organizing over 300,000 employees on active duty and 168,588 civilians (2007 USAF Almanac, 2007). The leaders of the Air Force and all military braches are civilians for checks and balances. There are different factors that impact the organizing function such as human resources, technology, and physical assets. Each of these factors is vital to the organizing and setup of world wide air and space power dominance. Each paragraph will show how the Air Force uses the organizational functions effectively and with great efficiency.

Human ResourcesHuman resources organization can be shown by the United States Air Force’s Air Expeditionary Force (AEF). “The Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) is a concept that is large in scope and shows a genius in its operation and execution.” (Paul Conners, ¶ 3) The air expeditionary force breaks down personnel into 10 groups including the Air National Guard (ANG) and Air Force Reserve (AFR).

Each group consists of personnel from a different Air Force Bases (AFB); therefore, it never drains a single bases personnel resource. This concept also allows the Air Force member a clear and defined schedule on when a deployment will occur. This allows for readiness, training, medical requirements to be taken care of in advance. The concept also eliminates most of the older, no notice deployments that the USAF saw in the past. The AEF concept has increased the over all effectiveness and efficiency of the USAF by leaps and bounds.

The Air Force uses a career designator to distinguish each individual job in the Air Force. The Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) system is an alpha numeric code use to classify a members specialty, for example 3C0X1 Communication-Computer Systems Operations or 2E1X1 Satellite Wideband Communication and Telemetry Systems...