Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: Planning in the Traditional Way, 1944-1953 1. The Initial Planning for a Postwar Officer Corps, 1944-1945 7 General Arnold Confronts the Problem 9 Planning Fails to Keep Pace 13 2. Laying the Foundations for an Officer Corps, 1946-1947 17 The New Officer Personnel System 20 Defining the Rated Force 25 Augmenting the Regular Force 28 Problems With the 70:30 Ratio 33 3. Erecting and Manning the Structure, 1947-1950 39 The Officer Personnel Act of 1947 40 Realigning the Permanent Rank Structure 43 Problems with Academic Education 48 Officer Procurement 53 4. Resistance and Turbulence, 1948-1950 63 Officer Career Management: Resistance and Progress 63 The Experiment in SAC 67 R & D and Control 71 Officer Procurement and the Reserve Forces 74 The Austere Budget of Fiscal Year 1950 76 5. Personnel Policies During the Korean War, 1950-1953 81 Squeezing the Officer Corps for Manpower 83 Partial Mobilization 85 Problems of Reservists at War 88 The Changed Status of Reserve Officers 99 The Buildup of the Officer Procurement Programs 102 Part Two: The Era of the Large Peacetime Military, 1954-1973 6. Policy Development in a New Era 1954-1960 113 The New Look, Another RIF, and the AFROTC Conversion 114 The Decentralized Beginning of Career Management 122 The Buildup of the Regular Officer Force 124 The Founding of the Air Force Academy 130 The Emphasis on Quality 135 Promotions: the Protracted Crisis Begins 138 7. Management in a Time of Decline, 1957-1960 153 The RIF of 1957-1960 154 Flight Training: Change and Decline 156 Procurement: Decline and More Problems with AFROTC 160 Pressure on the Rated Force 1 67 8. Initial Attempts to Resolve the Major Issues, 1960-1966 171 The Bolte Committee and Its Proposed Legislation 172 Promotions: More Stagnation and More Relief 175 Officer Retention: No Easy Answers 1 82 The Continuing Deficiency in Academic Education 197 Managing Mass Retirement 201 9. The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations: Pressure for Change, 1960-1966 207 Rated Management: Pressure and Compromise 208 Flight Training: Small Numbers and an Emerging Anomaly 214 The Air Force Academy: Trouble in a House Divided 223 Procurement: The AFROTC Reforms 230 Procurement: The Rise of OTS 234 Procurement: The Demise of OCS and Aviation Cadets 237 10. The Vietnam War and New Management Practices, 1965-1973 . . 241 Tightening the Manpower Belt 243 Loosening the Manpower Belt 251 The Pilot Shortage: How Real? 253 OTS Comes of Age 257 A Battered AFROTC 263 DOMS and TOPLINE: a Better Combination 269 Part Three: Overarching Issues, 1944-1974 11. Professionalism and Career Patterns 283 Professionalism and the Air Force Specialist 284 Professionalism and the Air Force Generalist 287 Sources of Commissions 300 12. Two Types of Integration: Gender and Race 303 The Separate World of Women in the Air Force 304 Racial Integration: Limited Objectives, Limited Results 323 13. Another type of Integration: Skills 339 The Peripheral Status of Nonrated Officers 339 The Ambiguous Status of Other Rated Officers 344 The Central Status of the Pilot 350 Conclusion 357 Appendices 1. United States Air Force Line Officers by Rating, 1 939-1 973 367 2. United States Air Force Line General Officers, 1939-1973 371 3. Flight Training, Fiscal Years 1954-1974 375 4. Public Law 381 — 80th Congress, The Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (selected extracts) 379 5. Public Law 349 — 83rd Congress, The Officer Grade Limitation Act of 1954 (selected extracts) 387 6. Public Law 625 — 80th Congress, Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 (selected extracts) 391 7. Air Force Women Officers, 1948-1973 395 8. Blacks in the Air Force, 1947-1971 399 Notes 403 Glossary 471 Bibliography 473 Index 495 Illustrations Tables 1. Regular Army Air Forces Officers, 1940 and 1945 , 12 2. Major Career Fields, September 1947 23 3. Projected General Officer Structure 44 4. Permanent Promotion Points, Seniority System and OPA of l947 45 5. Permanent Grade Structure, Authorized and Actual, 1947 45 6. Criteria for One Shot Promotions, 1948 47 7. Permanent Grade Structure, Before and After the One Shot Promotions of 1948 50 8. Officer Education Levels, 1948 52 9. Major Officer Career Fields, May 1950 64 10. Fear of Flying Cases, June 1950-November 1952 94 11. Responses to the Aviation Cadet Shortage, August 1951-May 1952 . 105 12. Reasons Cited by Young Officers for Joining the Air Force, 1953-1963 184 13. Positive and Negative Aspects of Military Life, as Mentioned by Young Officers, 1956-1966 193 14. Officer Procurement Sources, Fiscal Years 1960-1966 224 15. Two Views on Pilot Requirements, 1967 255 16. Officer Procurement Sources, Fiscal Years 1967-1972 258 17. US AF Officer Rank Structure, 1968 288 18. Squadron Officers School Curriculum, 1948-1949 and 1967-1968 291 19. Air Command and Staff College Curriculum, 1946-1947 and 1967-1968 292 20. Air War College Curriculum, 1946-1947 and 1967-1968 294 21 . Highest Professional Military Education, Air Force Line General Officers 296 22. Assignment Patterns, Air Force Line General Officers, 1970 297 23. Highest Assignment Level, Prior to Rank of Brigadier General 299 24. Sources of Commissions, Air Force Line General Officers 301 Figures 1. Permanent Rank after One Shot Adjustment 49 2. Years of Service — Regular Line Officers, 1956 127 3. Years of Service— Regular Line Officers, after 1958-1959 Augmentation 129 4. Years of Service — Regular and Reserve Line Officers, 1954 145 5. Flight Training, 1954-1960 157 6. Years of Service — Regular and Line Officers, 1964 177 7. Years of Service— Regular Line Officers, 1965 194 8. Flight Training, 1961-1966 215 9. Flight Training, 1967-1974 250 10. Years of Service — Regular and Reserve Rated Officers, DOMS and Actual, June 1970 277 11. Years of Service — Regular and Reserve Nonratcd Officers, DOMS and Actual, June 1970 278 12. Projected Years of Service — Regular and Reserve Rated Officers, DOMS and Actual, 1981 279 13. Projected Years of Service — Regular and Reserve Nonrated Officers, DOMSand Actual, 1981 280 Photographs General of the Army Henry H. Arnold 8 General of the Army George C. Marshall 14 Gen. Carl A. Spaatz and Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Knerr 19 Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer 21 Capt. Charles E. Yeager 28 Maj. General Albert F. Hegenberger 31 Maj. Gen. Otto P. Weyland 36 W. Stuart Symington 40 Brig. Gen. John E. Dahlquist 43 Gen. Joseph T. McNarney and Gen. Muir S. Fairchild 48 James V. Forrestal 58 Lt. Gen. Idwal H. Edwards 66 Gen. George C. Kenney and Maj. Gen. Clements McMullen 68 Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle 72 Maj. Gen. Orvil A. Anderson 74 Maj. Gen. William F. McKee 79 Lt. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead 86 Maj. Gen. Willis H.Hale 88 Maj. Gen. Eugene L. Eubank 92 Lt. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter 107 Maj. Gen. Norris B. Harbold 116 Lt. Gen. Emmett ODonnell 119 Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Harmon and Col. Dale O. Smith 133 Gen. Curtis E. LeMay and Gen. Thomas S. Power 144 Charles E. Wilson 155 Maj. Gen. Turner C. Rogers 164 Maj. Gen. Charles L.Bolte, USA 173 Senators Kenneth S. Wherry and Homer E. Capehart 187 Lt. Gen. Truman H. Landon 190 Gen. Edwin W. Rawlings 199 Gen. Thomas D. White 209 Eugene M. Zuckert 212 Lt. Gen. William W. Momyer 217 Robert S. McNamara 219 Brig. Gen. Robert F. McDermott 225 Cyrus R. Vance 245 Lt. Gen. Albert P. Clark 267 Lt. Gen. Robert J. Dixon 273 Col. Oveta Culp Hobby 305 Col. Geraldine P. May 310 Col. Mary J. Shelly 313 Col. Emma J. Riley 318 Col. Jeanne M. Holm 320 Tuskegee Airmen 325 Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr 327 Lt. Gen. AlvanC. Gillcm, Jr 329 Lt. Col. Noel F. Parrish 330 Maj. Gen. Neil D. Van Sickle 344 Maj. Gen. Robert E. Nugent 347 Maj. Gen Rockly Triantafellu and Brig. Gen Robert P. Lukcman 351 Digitized by http://www.afhso.af.mil/

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