Air Force Security Forces in US Air Forces in Europe have totally revamped the command’s regional training program, known as “Creek Defender,” run by the 768th Security Forces Squadron at Sembach AB, Germany. Taking direct feedback from security forces members who had deployed to Southwest Asia operations, the squadron created more than 40 new lesson plans—taking the Defender from instruction-based to one that focuses on how to counteract insurgent threats, reports USAF journalist MSgt. John Lasky.
The defense intelligence community has tried three times in the past decade to build a “common intelligence picture”—a single data stream providing the information that commanders need to make decisions about the battlefield. The first two attempts failed. But officials say things are different today.