I agree and disagree with you. The AOCs are a mess when it comes to standardization and they don't always have it right. However, the FTU can also get out of Fort Walton Beach and learn a couple of new tricks.

For example, IMHO, Osan should never have an AOC. You can't tell me with a straight face that if NK comes south, that Osan's AOC is going to remain. During a shoot'em war, will they be able to send troops and equipment from Travis to Osan in order to stand up the AMD portion? Not only no, but hell no. So why do we allow these AOCs and commands to play these stupid games? Move the crap back to Hickam, Japan, or Guam. South Korea will get over it. If they want to die in the HTAC, let them.

The schoolhouse. A select few of those bubbas pushed for the ATP-56B crap air refueling procedures. What is more disturbing is that AMC adopted it, overnight, without even consulting the shooters and bombers. Some LtCols and Majors at the FTU got their OPR bullets. Mark my words, there will be an accident that will be directly contributed to the woeful procedures in this document.

The schoolhouse is quick to show how several of the AOCs are currently violating doctrine. Now I agree with having the flexibility to change things, especially doctrine, if the situation is right. However, we've been doing things doctrinally incorrect for so long, the new cadre of folks wouldn't even know that the way they're doing business is wrong and we learned those lessons the hard way a long time ago. But if we get into a big shoot'em war, think Gulf War I or larger scale war (GWII doesn't come close), we are screwed from a doctrine aspect and we will again learn the hard way.

The next big hatchet that's going to fall is AOC consolidation. I think with all these funding cuts you're going to see a lot of AOCs combined, or at least the mobility part brought back to Scott.