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Vol. 67 No. 2
January 20, 2017
WEPTAC 2017: Future of warfare according to CSAF
By staff sgt. siuta B. Ika U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Siuta B. Ika
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein delivers the keynote address during the 2017 Weapons and Tactics Conference
(WEPTAC) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan. 12. WEPTAC, sponsored by Air Combat Command, brings together hundreds of
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Air warfighters from around the Air Force to discuss current issues, examine possible issues of the future, and provide solutions
Force senior leaders joined joint and coalition for joint employment of forces.
warfighters for the 2017 Weapons and Tactics
Conference (WEPTAC) here, Jan. 2 through 13.
WEPTAC, sponsored by Air Combat Com-
mand, brings together hundreds of warfighters
from around the Air Force to discuss current
issues, examine possible issues of the future,
and provide solutions for joint employment of
forces.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein
attended the conference and delivered the
keynote address, during which he shared his
thoughts on four future attributes of warfare.
“Our enemies are not paying attention to our
combatant commander maps,†Goldfein said.
“We have to be thinking about this fight that’s
coming our way as a transregional fight and
how do we get in the business of being chess
masters and not just in the business of check-
ers… Which brings me to the second piece; the
fight will be multi-domain, and when I talk
about multi-domain this is all domains — air,
land, sea, space, cyber and subsurface. We have
to be able and ready to produce a joint campaign
plan that leverages the strengths of all.â€
The CSAF then spoke about how the U.S. will
take a combined approach to future conflict
See weptac, on page 5
57th Wing Airmen take flight
By staff sgt. siuta B. Ika taking in the scent of exhaust and jet fuel flights in an F-15 Eagle, F-15E Strike port Squadron director of operations.
isn’t a new phenomenon for her — Elliott Eagle or F-16 Fighting Falcon during the “One reason we do this is to reward
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs is a munitions specialist assigned to the wing’s annual incentive fly day.
57th Maintenance Squadron — but her superior performers with a once-in-a-
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — purpose for being there on this particular “The 29 flyers were chosen from their lifetime opportunity to go fly in the back-
As she stepped onto the flightline here afternoon was a little out of the ordinary. respective chains of command and rep- seat of some of the best fighter aircraft in
Jan. 6, Senior Airman Sierra Elliott took resent a cross section of annual award the world,†Butler said. “Another reason
note of her surroundings. Elliott was one of 29 Airmen assigned winners and standout performers,†said See flight, on page 5
to the 57th Wing who received incentive Maj. Scott Butler, 57th Operations Sup-
Seeing a dozen fighter aircraft and
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