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personnel systems, establishing an orderly room was necessary to effectively monitor and address the many issues involved in personnel management. In the short duration that the orderly room was operational, it was able to absorb many of the personnel functions that had been previously handled by the AECEs and the AECC. An orderly room function is not currently available, either as a stand-alone UTC or as a part of the AECC package.

Recommendation. Develop an orderly room UTC for the AE system. Manning should consist of a squadron section commander, first sergeant, and EAD, ANG and AFRes personnel specialists to ensure proper handling of pay, promotion, and related personnel matters. An alternative would be to include such a function in an expanded AECC UTC for large-scale AE operations.

(~) AECE Manning.

Observation. The composition of the new AECEs (UTC FFQCX/Y) was not adequate to properly manage the five strategic hubs.

Discussion. The four AECE UTC packages deployed were insufficient to man the five AE strategic hubs established in the AOR. The four AECE packages were divided amongst the five hubs to provide minimum staffing at each location. Even with additional augmentation of an 11 man AECE package in early January, the AECEs were not sufficiently staffed to perform the range of task associated with establishing and maintaining five AE strategic hubs. To sustain a 24 hour on going operation, AECMs were utilized in the AECEs as crew managers, duty officers and administrative specialists. Medical technicians were trained as medical administrative specialists to compensate for the shortfall of 906X0s in theater. Many quickly adapted, learning paperwork and AE procedures, however some were unfamiliar with Air Force forms, computer programs and correspondence formats, thus negating much of their usefulness. Due to the inconsistency in knowledge of AE operations of the additional duty personnel available and the training time involved, tasking AECMs did not alleviate the need for fully qualified full time AECE personnel. In addition, three radio operators and communications and age maintenance personnel had to be assigned to the AECEs to ensure communications capability throughout the AOR. As commercial telephones and tactical telephones were unreliable, HF radio capability between the AECE and the AECC was the only reliable means of communication. The current AECE UTC (FFQCX/Y) does not provide adequate staffing for sustained operations nor authorize manning in AFSCs that are needed for crew management, communications, logistics, and aerospace ground equipment maintenance. These personnel had to be tasked through TPFDD augmentation. This was a short term fix, but not a permanent solution.

Recommendation. A sufficient number of AECE UTCs should be tasked and manned to ensure AE operations can be

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