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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

We concluded by discussing the dynamics of change in providing authorities at sea to deal with the new
threat environment.

Notably, in the world of the past decade TLAMS are launched by a very high level of a command authority.

As weapons like TLAMS become important to providing dynamic protection to a fleet at sea, there clearly
needs to be authority at sea to use weapons to ensure the security of the fleet.

If you are going to have distributed lethality, you certainly need organic defense to ensure the safety and
performance of the engaged fleet.

Admiral Swift, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, and his team were working hard on the rethink on decision-
making authorities.

According to Admiral “Hi Fi” Harris: “What authorities should reside where and when? They are driving
towards mission command which is crucial to deal with evolving threats.”
In short, the refocus on high-end warfare and the probability of confronting an adversary at sea is reflected
in the thinking and training at NAWDC.

Air Wing Fallon: The Challenges Facing Pre-deployment Training for the

Carrier Air Wing
2017-08-17 By Edward Timperlake and Robbin Laird

When we were last at Fallon in 2014, we had a chance to talk to the officers involved in the last phase of
training prior to going to the Carrier, namely what they call Air Wing Fallon. Naval Air Station Fallon is
known as the “carrier in the desert” and Air Wing Fallon is the final or pre-deployment phase of training
down on the Carrier to the desert as the CAG deploys to the carrier at sea.

During that visit we discussed Air Wing Fallon with CDR (S) Jayson “Plato” Eurick, Air Wing Training Officer,
at Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, Fallon Naval Air Station.

Training is about getting ready for deployment and supporting deployment, which is certainly a broad
concept of training.

“We ensure that they (the air wing) get up to speed on all of the information that is currently taking place in
theater.

“We don’t train Air Wing Fallon for a specific theater or country, we give them a broad brushed training, but
we ensure that they get the information that is coming directly back from the guys overseas, in this case, the
USS Bush.

Second Line of Defense

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