WEBVTT 00:04.659 --> 00:06.770 For the last 25 years of operations . 00:06.770 --> 00:08.881 At Centcom . The Air Force has used a 00:08.881 --> 00:10.603 crowd sourcing methodology for 00:10.603 --> 00:12.770 deploying its forces . What that means 00:12.770 --> 00:14.826 is that we take forces from all over 00:14.826 --> 00:16.881 the air force and deploy them to one 00:16.881 --> 00:18.937 location to designate them as an air 00:18.937 --> 00:20.603 expeditionary wing to conduct 00:20.603 --> 00:22.700 operations . We take a fighter unit 00:22.709 --> 00:24.653 from one base submission , support 00:24.653 --> 00:26.820 personnel from another security forces 00:26.820 --> 00:28.931 and medical from two other places and 00:28.931 --> 00:31.153 put them together and say now you are a 00:31.153 --> 00:33.369 team air force . Senior leadership has 00:33.380 --> 00:35.547 determined that this will not work for 00:35.547 --> 00:37.602 us in a large scale combat operation 00:37.602 --> 00:39.713 against a peer adversary . We need to 00:39.713 --> 00:42.119 develop combat ready teams that train 00:42.130 --> 00:44.549 and certify together in peace time 00:44.560 --> 00:46.560 before they deploy to an A or 00:46.950 --> 00:49.172 furthermore , our senior leaders need a 00:49.172 --> 00:51.520 better way to quantify the capabilities 00:51.529 --> 00:53.585 and the resources that the air force 00:53.585 --> 00:55.696 has ready for a deployment . When our 00:55.696 --> 00:57.640 joint force , combatant commanders 00:57.640 --> 00:59.751 asked the air force for support . Our 00:59.751 --> 01:01.918 senior leaders need to know what units 01:01.918 --> 01:04.140 are ready for deployment and what their 01:04.140 --> 01:06.307 capabilities are rather than piecemeal 01:06.307 --> 01:08.529 that force together . After the request 01:08.529 --> 01:10.640 is made , this is where the air force 01:10.640 --> 01:13.559 force generation or Afro and units of 01:13.569 --> 01:16.290 action are important . Afro Gen is a 01:16.300 --> 01:19.309 process to train and certify a unit of 01:19.319 --> 01:22.019 action to deploy . The unit of action 01:22.029 --> 01:24.720 is what is training to deploy . And 01:24.750 --> 01:27.150 Afro gen is how we are training that 01:27.160 --> 01:29.379 unit for deployment . Now that we have 01:29.389 --> 01:31.930 an idea of what a unit of action is and 01:31.940 --> 01:34.162 why it is important . Let's look at how 01:34.162 --> 01:36.273 it will affect airmen on a day to day 01:36.273 --> 01:39.470 basis . What airmen may see around the 01:39.480 --> 01:42.269 air force is a change in how their unit 01:42.279 --> 01:45.190 deploys , not so much in what their 01:45.199 --> 01:48.949 actual job or day to day tasks are . So 01:49.389 --> 01:52.129 an airman's normal day to day task for 01:52.139 --> 01:54.083 mission accomplishment either as a 01:54.083 --> 01:56.139 manage airman or a civil engineering 01:56.139 --> 01:58.690 airman or a uh a coms professional . 01:58.779 --> 02:01.410 You're still doing that core job but 02:01.419 --> 02:04.180 how the air force is organizing you and 02:04.190 --> 02:07.360 your unit for a deployment is changing . 02:07.370 --> 02:09.440 And so instead of deploying in small 02:09.449 --> 02:12.664 teams or small unit type codes or UT CS 02:12.904 --> 02:15.895 like we've done in the past now under 02:15.904 --> 02:18.205 units of action concept like a 02:18.214 --> 02:20.325 deployable combat wing , uh you would 02:20.335 --> 02:22.565 expect the entire unit or at least a 02:22.574 --> 02:24.804 significant portion of that unit to 02:24.815 --> 02:27.037 train and certify and deploy together . 02:27.037 --> 02:29.725 Instead of it being the ones Z two Z 02:29.735 --> 02:31.957 type deployments that we've done in the 02:31.957 --> 02:33.902 past , the air staff are currently 02:33.902 --> 02:36.068 working on the specifics , but that is 02:36.068 --> 02:38.449 units of action in a nutshell be sure 02:38.460 --> 02:40.627 to check out the other videos on agile 02:40.627 --> 02:42.630 combat employment and mission command .