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one step farther. It’s time to assume
CCAF offers jump on education the attacks, or at least the ground-
work for them, are happening now.
Commentary by Senior Airman Spencer Brockman graduation ceremony on base. The commencement
speaker was a retired Air Force command chief. It MEASURING MEGABYTES
56th Component Maintenance Squadron always leaves an impression on me when I hear from LIKE MISSILES
retired enlisted Airmen that have doctorates. They
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, ARIZONA -- The have worked tirelessly to support themselves and All the tools of traditional warfare
Community College of the Air Force was estab- their families not only working for the Air Force, have something in common: They
lished in 1972 to recognize academic achievements but also to get an education for themselves. The Air are quantifiable. Every radar has a
for technical training by Air Force schools. It awards Force wants Airmen to be educated. It benefits by range, and every missile has a blast
an associate in applied science degree to enlisted having a more diverse, qualified and educated work- radius. We know how far something
members of the active-duty Air Force, Air National force to maintain critical and valuable national de- can go and how powerfully it can
Guard and Air Force Reserve Command who have fense assets outside of the normal job qualification strike, and we can also use physics
completed the course work. training. The perk for the Airman is that the skills and other science to extrapolate the
and education translate very well to public and pri- damage it can do to its target. All that
Degree programs are designed to help students vate industries. math goes into the very same battle
meet future technological and leadership challenges simulations the military uses to en-
of the Air Force by combining Air Force technical There are many programs set up in which the sure efficiency and effectiveness.
training with general education course work from Air Force helps to offset the cost of getting an off-
accredited civilian schools. CCAF has five broad duty education. Most notably are military tuition The problem with cyber warfare is
areas in which it offers degree programs. They are assistance, Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9-11 that it doesn’t conform to the same
logistics and resources, public and support services, GI Bill. science. Without some meaningful
allied health, electronics and telecommunications, method of measurement, it’s infi-
and aircraft and missile maintenance. While you are in the military, the most accessible nitely more complicated to say what
program to use is tuition assistance. It provides 100 something can do and how well it
Since military personnel are constantly relo- percent of tuition and fees as long as the limits are works. That’s where a lot of the hard
cating, CCAF provides a means for them to com- not exceeded. thinking is right now – figuring out
plete degree requirements regardless of where what a cyber blast radius looks like,
they are assigned. The opportunities are there for Airmen. It’s up to and how best to measure it.
each person to take advantage of them.
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