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majority of Air Force education officers will combine to form
eight Training System Teams (TSTs) next year as a result of a
two-year training system review.
The eight teams will serve the five FEGs, Air and Ground Training
Wings and the RAAF College. Regardless of where team members are
located, they will report to an OIC, who will task them according
to the training priorities of the respective headquarters.
If necessary, they will combine their resources to deal with major
projects. The Director of Training System Development, Group Captain
Rob McIntyre, said the consolidation – to occur from January 2005
– would provide major benefits for the Air Force Training System
and individual education officers.
“From the EDOs’ perspective, the consolidation will provide a
much sharper focus on their links with capability, as well as
enabling more systematic professional development,” GPCAPT McIntyre
said.
“For example, they will begin their careers in a FEG, and then
experience a balance of FEG, Training Command and training school
postings at each rank. “Under the TST concept, the eight key training
delivery appointments will each have a group of training system
specialists at their disposal. Furthermore, in a major departure
from current practice, each TST will also be managed at Wing level
to maximise its potential.”
He said although training quality officers had provided excellent
training support, and a small number of education officers had
been embedded in three of the five FEGs, “there have simply been
too few of them to meet all of their customers’ expectations,
and they have had to share their time between a number of competing
requests, sometimes within the same FEG”.
The review was set up in August 2002 and CAFAC approved its recommendations
in May this year. The Commander of Training Command-Air Force,
Air Commodore Rod Luke, said TSTs were the way of the future for
managing Air Force training and directly linking training to capability.
