May 16-22
Aerospace Expeditionary Force - Done-plete
Tigers from Squadron 3 pose for a photo in pool of water at the last exercise of the Assault Course during the last day of AEF on May 13, 2011.
by OT Capt. David Murphy
Members of Flight 3-12 were split
into different chalks this week for
the Aerospace Expeditionary Force
(AEF) Exercise. This week-long mock
deployment took place from May 9 –
13 and was meant to give the Officer
Trainees at Basic Officer Training a
chance to get a feel for what deployment
will be like.
The first thing Class 11-05 members
had to do was pack their bags. What
to bring and how much to bring was
determined by a packing list. Next
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members had to get their issued gear, in
this case a flak jacket, helmet, sleeping
bag and bivvy cover. With their gear in
hand the OTs were then packed on to
buses, representing C-130s, and shipped
to “Cuba.”
Once on “Cuban” soil the members
needed to first take over the base from
the “Cubans.” This involved an assault on
the compound with paintball guns. After
a few hours this exercise was completed
and class 11-05 could relax in their new
digs. These paintball battles would go
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on everyday as part of the base defense
portion of AEF.
Base defense was done from Monday
through Thursday from about 1200
to 1700 each day. Base defense would
begin with a scenario that the AEF
Commander, OT Lt. Col. Jeffrey
Schmidt, would have to accompolish.
OT Lt. Col. Schmidt would then delegate
to his chalk leaders and attempt to
complete the mission. Afterwards there
would be a debrief where commissioned
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I spent most of my life growing
up in Delaware. In tenth grade I
OT Focus: Schuyler Collis
started dating Victoria Bryan and
we eventually married six and a half
years later. Tenth grade was when
I discovered I really enjoyed math
and it became my favorite class.
When I started applying to college
I knew I wanted to be an engineer
so I applied to several colleges in
different engineering programs and
was accepted everywhere I applied.
My wife was only accepted to the
University of Delaware so I ended up
studying to be an electrical engineer.
After taking several engineering
classes I realized that electrical
engineering was the most math based
engineering program availble and it is
what I was most interested in.
When I first started going to high
school I wanted to join the Navy right
after I graduated. I wanted to enlist
and be a nuclear trained electronics
technician. I eventually decided to go
to college first and join the military
after I graduated. I went to join the
AFROTC program at the University of
Delaware but my wife was convinced
I would die and complained every
time she saw me. I put off joining the
Air Force until my junior year when I
found out they needed more electrical
engineers. I then contacted a recruiter
and found out I was selected two
weeks after I graduated.

Class 11-05 Participates in 20th Annual Pancake Run for Missions

by OT Capt. David Murphy
Tigers from Flight 3-12 joined Hoyas and for their age group respectively.
Goldhawks on Saturday, May 14, 2011, for the
20th Annual Pancake Run for Missions. The run
began at, and was hosted by, the First United
Methodist Church of Montgomery, Ala., and took a
5k route through the neighborhood. After the run
pancakes were indeed served to all runners who
participated.
The first and second place overall finishers were
OT Maj. Robert Saka and OT 1st Lt. Maxfield Shea.
Tigers who participated in the exercise were OTs
Lt. Col. Chris Pair, Maj. Canaan Barger, Maj. Travis
Griffitt and Capt. David Murphy. OT Griffitt and
Barger took home first and second place trophies

ABOVE: The members of Class 11-05 who received trophies pose for a photo.
LEFT: The members of Class 11-05 who participated in the 5k pose for
a photo

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 Events this Week The Intel Brief: UN: North Korea, Iran
Monday - trade missile technology
by Louis Charbonneau, Reuters
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NEW YORK — North Korea and trade with a number of North Korean
Enlisted Heritage Hall
Iran appear to have been regularly firms and called for asset freezes and
Air Force exchanging ballistic missile technology travel bans on some North Korean
Morale Night in violation of U.N. sanctions, individuals.
according to a confidential U.N. report “Prohibited ballistic missile-related
obtained by Reuters on Saturday. items are suspected to have been
Tuesday -
The report said the illicit technology transferred between the Democratic
Tuskegee Airmen Movie transfers had “trans-shipment People’s Republic of Korea (North
Squadrons Board Support through a neighboring third country.” Korea) and the Islamic Republic of
Tuskegee NHS Visit That country was China, several Iran on regular scheduled flights of Air
diplomats told Reuters on condition of Koryo and Iran Air,” the report said.
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anonymity. “For the shipment of cargo, like
The report was submitted to the arms and related materiel, whose illicit
Wednesday Security Council by a U.N. Panel nature would become apparent on any
Supervisor in Basket of Experts, a group that monitors cursory physical inspection, (North)
compliance with U.N. sanctions Korea seems to prefer chartered cargo
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imposed on Pyongyang after it flights,” it said.
CT-Civil Air Patrol Incentive conducted two nuclear tests in 2006 It added that the aircraft tended to
Wing Brief Off and 2009. fly “from or to air cargo hubs which
Financial Briefing (USAA) The U.N. sanctions included a lack the kind of monitoring and
ban on trade in nuclear and missile security to which passenger terminals
technology with North Korea, as well and flights are now subject.”
Thursday as an arms embargo. They also banned
Career Day
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“Do not follow where the path may lead.
with Rated OTs Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Harold R. McAlindon
End of Course OTPR Feedback
Col. Leo K. Thorsness “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do
something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Friday - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Staff/OT Mini-mac & Flickerball “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
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in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of
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challenge and controversy.”
Grad Week Overview - Martin Luther King, Jr.
O’Club Orientation
A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Personal Events “Anything that can be done, can be done better.”
Birthdays - David J. Murphy, Officer Trainee
OT Erwin’s Wife - 24 May

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 Expeditionary Lea
Story and photos by OT Capt. David Murphy
About six or so weeks ago,
members of Flight 3-12 got
the opportunity to take part in
BELPs, or Baseline Expeditionary
Leadership Problems. This was
a practice run for the real deal,
ELPs, Expeditionary Leadership
Problems. ELPs is a graded
exercise that members of Flight
3-12 took part in during their
AEF deployment from May 9 –
13, 2011.
ELPs are essentially leadership
exercises where commissioned
staff get the chance to evaluate
OTs on their ability to
successfully utilize the OODA
loop in the problem solving. The
OODA in OODA Loop stands for
Observe, Orient, Decide and Act,
and it is a core problem solving
method used by the Air Force.
Members of Flight 3-12 were
divided amongst several different
chalks which were made up of
members from different flights
from class 11-05. This was meant
to give them a chance to interact
with other members from the
class and to see how well they
would work together in a new
group. Each chalk member had to
take on a different ELP, and each
ELP challenged the OT in new
and different ways.
Some ELPs involved diffusing
bombs, moving radioactive dirt,
retrieving dangerous intel or
chemicals, or simply laying mines
in a specific pattern. Each ELP
challenged the OTs on a different
aspect of leadership. In the end
every member of Class 11-05
passed ELPs, their second to last
graded measure at OTS.
The different chalks from class 11-05 march towards their respective starting points in ELPs.
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adership Problems

OT Maj. Canaan Barger gets ready for ELPs. OT Capt. David Murphy provides security for his chalk during one of the ELPs.

OTs double time to their destination during OTs in Chalk 4 take a break in between ELPs. Breaks were welcome in 90+ degree heat that OTs
one of the ELPs exercises. had to conduct their exercises in.
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Tags help to identify which duffle bag belongs OT 1st Lt. Ramon Underwood mentally prepares
to whom. himself for the upcoming base takeover.

The tools of the trade during AEF included a

paintball gun, mask, hopper, paintballs, and
compressed air canister.
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OT Capt. Walt Cochran IV looks out the window of the bus he is taking to get him to his
“deployed” location. staff, who usually played the role of the
“Cubans,” would review the mission.
On the last day, Friday, class members
got the chance to go on the assault course
and cool off, followed by a catered BBQ
lunch.

Members of Flight 3-12 take part in the war gaming exercise. They use a videogame to represent the Class members partake in a showing of Top Gun at
operation of a command center. In the game they must rescue Americans from Cuba using C-17s during AEF.

Aerospace Expe
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 OT Maj. Canaan Barger looks for ticks in
another OTs hair.

OT 1st Lt. Bryan Rastovic takes a brief respite

OT 1st Lt. Chris Glenn sits at the ready in a defensive fighting position at Base Defense exercises. during the Base Defense exercises.

t the morale tent OTs crawl with their back on the ground during one of the exercises on the A soaking wet Capt. Bryan Butler reacts to
Assault Course on the last day of AEF. being thrown in a pool of water.

editionary Force
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