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561st JTS enhances warfighter TTPs
By Airman 1st Class Rachel Loftis
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev.
— Nellis AFB is home to many
groups and squadrons with impor-
tant mission capabilities that make
the U.S. Air Force the most flexible
and capable force possible.
The 561st Joint tactics Squadron
is one of those units that calls Nellis in order to accomplish its mission.
AFB home. The squadron works to
enhance warfighter lethality through
past lessons learned, and utilizes cur- tion technology, and operations or
rent tactics, techniques and proce-
dures as a tactical resource — in the
form of a diverse library of volumes
and annexes.
“The 561st JTS develops and
maintains all Air Force TTP 3-1s
and 3-3s,” said Maj. William Burns,
561st JTS director of operations.
“Typically, 3-3s are the basic em-
ployment manuals for all U.S. Air
Force weapon systems and the 3-1s
are considered the advanced tactical
employment manuals.”
As emerging TTPs are developed
Air Force wide, the 561st JTS cap-
tures and disseminates them to the
Combat Air Forces through the form
of Flash or Tactics Bulletins. In this
way the 561st JTS is able to update
the manuals in the middle of the
rewrite cycles.
“However, the priority focus for
new tactics being developed and used
is centered on the area of responsibil-
ity,” said Burns. “Thus, the develop-
ment of new TTPs in any AOR can
be quickly brought to the attention of
the rest of the CAF so they are aware
and can start training to them.”
One important role of the 561st
JTS is its work to foster integrated-
warfare TTPs by bridging operations
between mission areas, services, and
across platforms.
“A great example of this is in
non-kinetic operations command
and control TTPs that the squadron
continues to work on,” said Burns.
“The 561st JTS also works to help
focus the CAF on force readiness
in line with the (chief of staff of the
Air Force) and (commander of Air
Combat Command) priorities. The
561st JTS spearheaded the push for
contested, degraded, operationally-
limited integration into all Air Force
TTPs. Finally, the 561st JTS is a key
enabler to multi-service TTP devel-
opment, working hand-in-hand with
News
“The 561st JTS develops and main-
tains all Air Force TTP 3-1s and 3-3s.”
— Maj. William Burns, 561st JTS director of operations
the Air Land Sea Application Center
for its development. Bottom line is
the 561st JTS is the AFTTP focal
point for the Air Force and joint and Burns. “Our director of production
coalition partners.”
The squadron is uniquely set up
The squadron is divided roughly into
three sections: production, informa-
lessons learned.
The production department works
toward writing the initial or re-
writing existing AFTTP volumes.
Volume managers work with model
managers in order to keep them on
a predetermined time line.
“Our foreign military sales folks
work with headquarters Air Com-
bat Command,
Secretary of
the Air
Force International Affairs, and
contractors for the development
of our FMS volumes daily,” said
is charged with working out all the
fine details and ensuring that all the
magic is happening.”
Within the production depart-
ment the editors and graphic artists
work animation and graphics in to
the volumes as required.
“I turn pilot speak into English,”
said Cassandra Kardeke, 561st JTS
editor. “My job is to help the subject
matter experts (which consists of the
mission design series operators) or-
ganize their information and change
technical speak to common English
so that anyone can understand the
information.”
Due to the
amount of
data their skills, relevancy and credibil-
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and the squadron’s mission, they ne-
cessitate a small IT department. The
IT department ensures the 561st JTS
systems are up and running. The de-
partment also ensures data is secure
and accessible to the rest of the CAF.
“They are charged with the task of
taking the 561st JTS into the future
in respect to our IT strategy and the
squadron’s vision,” said Burns.
In order to capture new and emerg-
ing tactics, the squadron has a hand-
ful of SMEs. The SMEs work in the
operations side of the squadron,
continually developing a credible net-
work in order to gather information
Air Force wide. They are continuously
engaging members for any and all
new and emerging TTPs.
“Typically, they actively participate
in their mission design series mis-
sions, this way they are able to keep
ity within their communities,” said
Burns “They also go on temporary
duty assignments to observe opera-
tions and missions in the AORs, exer-
cises, etc., within their mission areas,
as experts, gathering the required
info the rest of the CAF needs. The
rest of their time is spent vetting and
writing flash and tactics bulletins for
the CAF. Our subject matter experts
also serve as the model managers
for their MDS, AFTTP 3-1 and 3-3
as well.”
The 561st JTS works with almost
all operational AFSCs which use
or work with AFTTP. The vision of
the squadron is to be a well-trained
and integrated team, with a positive
and cohesive culture that efficiently
communicates credible solution to
priority air, space and cyberspace
tactical problems.
Since April 2015, the 561st JTS has
published nine 3-1s and six 3-3s total-
ing over 6,000 pages. Among these
were volumes for the F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter, the E-3 AWACS, U-2, as well
as volumes in support of Air Force
Special Operations Command and
Air Force Global Strike Command.