CommissionED: The Air Force Officer Podcast

001 - What is an Air Force officer?

September 18, 2019 Colin Slade & Reed Gann
CommissionED: The Air Force Officer Podcast
001 - What is an Air Force officer?
Show Notes

In their inaugural episode, Colin and Reed set the stage and attempt to answer the fundamental question underlying CommissionED: The Air Force Officer Podcast, namely "What is an Air Force officer?"
00:52 - Host introductions
04:13 - Worst National Anthem EVER!!
(here's the evidence: https://youtu.be/EumPzPxBXxE)
05:04 - Purpose and intent of CommissionED
10:02 - Review of Title 10 USCode requirements to be an officer
11:09 - Review of the eight requirements outlined in AFI 36-2005 Officer Accessions
20:42 - Are officers and the commissioning sources elitist?
21:40 - Defining good moral character
22:23 - Which of the eight Air Force officer requirements can be influenced?
24:07 - Reed shares his thoughts on the question "What is an officer?" (see The Armed Forces Officer by Richard M. Swain and Albert C. Pierce here: https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/Books/AFO/Armed-Forces-Officer.pdf)
26:55 - Enlisted leadership: How are they different from commissioned officers?
30:07 - Colin shares his thoughts
(check out The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army by Paul Lockhart here: https://www.amazon.com/Drillmaster-Valley-Forge-Steuben-American-ebook/dp/B001EWOFJU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1558567622&sr=8-1
and
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by David Grossman here: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society-ebook/dp/B00J90F8W2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=on+killing&qid=1562817059&s=gateway&sr=8-2)
44:51 - Closing comments

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