(b) Scope: This program allows officers to pursue such professional subjects as engineering, seamanship, and navigation. Courses are provided on elective and required basis. (c) Location of training: U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. (d) Number of students: 540. 3. Postgraduate education (a) Objective: To provide advanced education to eligible commissioned officers in order to meet the needs of the service. (b) Scope: This program permits selected officers to take higher education in certain instances to the doctorate level. (c) Location of training: At U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., and at selected civilian institutions. (d) Number of students: 680. 4. Service colleges (a) Objective: To provide professional education designed to equip officers for higher command. (b) Scope: Selected officers obtain professional broadening in both joint and interservice subjects such as strategic planning, logistics, and military-political affairs. (c) Location of training: Various. Typical are the following schools to which naval officers are sent: Naval War College at Newport, R.I.; Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.; National War College, Washington, D.C. (d) Number of students: 403. 5. Functional training schools (a) Objective: To provide instruction in the performance of specialized tasks or functions which are not normal to professional training of officers. (b) Scope: Examples of this type of training at functional schools are: advanced undersea weapons, deep sea diving; firefighting, guided missiles, and special weapons. Examples of training offered ashore are: antisubmarine warfare damage control and firefighting, communications, air defense and combat information center, and gunnery. (c) Location of schools: Functional: Naval Guided Missile School, Dam Neck, Va., and Pomona, Calif.; Naval School, Deep Sea Divers, Washington, D.C.; Naval School, Advanced Undersea Weapons, Key West, Fla. Fleet: Fleet Training Centers, Newport, R.I., Norfolk, Va., Charleston, S.C., San Diego, Calif., Submarine School, New London, Conn., Fleet Sonar Schools, Key West, Fla., and San Diego, Calif. (d) Number of students: 1,450. 6. Aviation training (a). Objective: To train selected officers in the techniques and theory of flight. (b) Scope: Example of training includes flight instruction, areodynamics, navigation, gunnery, and engineering. (c) Location of schools: Basic instruction taught at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. Advanced instruction taught at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tex. (d) Number of students: 570. 7. Special technical schools (a) Objective: To provide special instruction in various technical specialties to meet needs of the service. (b) Scope: Examples of types of training are: electronics, freight transportation, journalism, photographic interpretation, communication, supply, finance, and oil burning. (c) Location of training: Various. Schools typical of this area are: Freight Transportation School, Oakland, Calif.; Foreign Language Courses at U.S. Naval Intelligence School, Washington, D.C. (d) Number of students: 760. 8. Correspondence courses (including USAFI) (a) Objective: USAFI to provide personnel with off-duty educational opportunities in subjects normally taught in civilian institutions. Other, to provide opportunity for self-study in professional naval subjects. (b) Scope: Examples of types of education available are a complete coverage of professional subjects, mathematics, English, history, and languages from elementary through college levels. (c) Location of training: At ship or station of individual enrolled, admin. istered through USAFI, Madison, Wis., and in the case of correspondence courses administered primarily through U.S. Naval Correspondence Course Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (d) Number of students: 59,400 (includes 11,000 USAFI participants). 9. Tuition aid (a) Objective: To permit naval officers to take off-duty courses in nearby accredited colleges, universities, and Junior colleges, with the Navy defraying part of tuition cost. (b) Scope: Examples of types of training are engineering, mathematics, and English normally on junior college and college levels. (c) Location of training: At or near major continental U.S. naval bases such as University of Washington at Seattle, Wash., and College of William and Mary Extension, Norfolk, Va. (d) Number of students: 800. (NOTE. This program has been recently reestablished and is expanding.) ТАВ В ENLISTED TRAINING Enlisted training is basically technical; i.e., it develops capability in solving standard types of technical problems. It is also oriented toward developing groups of people, who have similar abilities, to perform tasks that require particular skills. Therefore, enlisted training, dependent upon the degree of skill, intelligence, or judgment required, may be compared to that of civilian trade schools or institutions leading to higher educational levels. Each young naval enlistee is given a period of recruit training, during which he learns the basic fundamentals required of a man-o-warsman, and concurrently he transitions from civilian to sailor. Since this training is entirely oriented to this transition, it will be omitted from this discussion. Technical training either in formal school or on the job commences immediately after recruit training. Of our 62 naval enlisted ratings, 58 require that at least some of the input be from technical schools. 1. Basic technical (class A) A. PROGRAMS (a) Objective. To provide basic technical knowledges and skills required to prepare enlisted personnel for apprentice and lower petty officer rates. (b) Examples of courses.-Electronic technician, machinery repair, storekeeper, journalist, personnelman. (c) Location of schools.-U.S. Naval Training Centers at Great Lakes, Ill.; San Diego, Calif.; Bainbridge, Md.; U.S. Naval Schools Command, Treasure Island, Calif.; Newport, R.I.; and Norfolk, Va. (d) Number of students.-20,400. 2. Advanced technical (class B) (a) Objective.-To provide advanced technical knowledges and skills required to prepare enlisted personnel for the higher petty officer rates. (b) Examples of courses.-Construction mechanic, electrician mate, photographers. (c) Location of schools.-U.S. Naval Schools, Construction, Port Hueneme, Calif.; U.S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill.; Naval Air Technical Training Unit, Pensacola, Fla. (d) Number of students.-2,930. 3. Special schools (class C) (a) Objective.-To train enlisted personnel in a particular skill or technique which, in general, is not peculiar to any one rating. (b) Examples of courses.-Camera repair, supply, oxygen repair. (c) Location of schools.-Naval Air Technical Training Unit at Pensacola, Fla.; and Lakehurst, N.J.; U.S. Naval Schools Command, Newport, R.I.; U.S. Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif.; U.S. Naval School, Compressed Gases, Portsmouth, Va. (d) Number of students.-3,760. 4. Functional schools (a) Objective.-To provide training in the performance of specialized tasks or functions which are not normal to rating training of enlisted personnel. (b) Examples of courses.-Assembly and maintenance of advanced undersea weapons, guided missiles, mines, special weapons, nets; deep sea and salvage diving; firefighting; operation and operational maintenance of various kinds of shipboard equipment. (c) Location of schools.-Various. Typical are the following functional and fleet schools to which naval enlisted personnel are sent : Functional: Naval Guided Missiles Schools, Dam Neck, Va., and Pomona, Calif.; Naval Schools, Mine Warfare, Yorktown, Va.; Naval School, Deep Sea Divers, Washington, D.C. Fleet Fleet Training Centers, Newport R.I., Norfolk, Va., Charleston, S.C., San Diego, Calif., Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Fleet Air Defense Training Centers, Dam Neck, Va., and San Diego, Calif. (d) Number of students.-700. 5. Correspondence courses (including USAFI) (a) Objective.— USAFI: To provide personnel with off-duty educational opportunities in subjects normally taught in civilian institutions. Other: To provide opportunity for self-study in professional naval subjects. (b) Examples of courses.-Complete coverage of professional subjects, English, history, and languages from elementary through college levels. (c) Location of schools.-At ship or station of individual enrolled, administered through USAFI, Madison, Wis., and in the case of correspondence courses administered through U.S. Naval Correspondence Course Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (d) Number of students.-352,400 (includes 44,000 USAFI participants). 6. On ship or base (off-duty training) (a) Objective.-To broaden enlisted personnel's general knowledge. (b) Examples of courses.—Political science, Spanish, current events. (c) Location of training.—On board ship or station. (d) Number of students.-Estimated 5,000. 7. Tuition aid program (a) Objective.-To permit personnel to take off-duty courses in nearby accredited colleges, universities, and junior colleges with the Navy defraying part of the tuition cost. (b) Examples of courses.-Courses are available in engineering, mathematics, and English normally on junior college and college levels. (c) Location of training.—At or near major continental U.S. naval bases such as University of Washington at Seattle, Wash., and College of William and Mary Extension, Norfolk, Va. (d) Number of students.-7,200. NOTE. This program has been recently reestablished and is expanding. 8. Enlisted advanced school program (a) Objective.-To provide a program of advanced technical education and training for enlisted personnel to provide the systems analysts required to operate and maintain the increasingly complex technical equipment for naval ships and aircraft. (b) Example of courses.-A 4-year college level electrical engineering course combined with 8 years obligated service. (c) Location of training.-Purdue University. (d) Number of students.-54 (fiscal year 1957, first year this program; expanding.) AIR FORCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS Air University provides a coordinated program of professional education for officers of the U.S. Air Force within one integrated school system. This program is planned to equip officers with the knowledge and skills necessary for assuming progressively more important assignments in command and staff positions. Within the Air University system are the War College; the Command and Staff College; the Institute of Technology; Headquarters Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps); the Extension Course Institute, USAF; the Research Studies Institute; and the Air University Library. Air Force officers must be able to solve complex problems of military management, tactics, and strategy having many variable factors. Air University aims to teach the student how to seek solutions; to develop in the student the ability, the mental know-how, to attack problems in an orderly manner, by logic, by analysis, by applying tested principles at every step. This approach differs from that of Air Training Command, where courses are vocational and are designed to qualify officers and airmen in a wide variety of technical specialties ranging from piloting airplanes to splicing telephone cables. In contrast with training in technical skills, where the aim is the imparting of known facts and approved techniques, in Air University education "approved solutions" are avoided wherever possible, in the belief that their use would narrow the range of the student's thinking and discourage unfettered originality. A. WAR COLLEGE (1) The mission of the War College is to prepare senior officers for high command and staff duty with large Air Force units and to promote sound concepts of air power to assure its most effective development and employment. (2) Since major problems facing high command and staff officers are of such complexity as to require group solution, the instruction is so organized that at least half of the students' scheduled time is spent in seminar work. Lectures, forums, conferences, student presentations, research, thesis preparation, and critiques take up the remainder of the students' scheduled time. The War College does not provide approved solutions to the problems presented to the student body nor attempt to prescribe or suggest in any manner what the solutions should be. Seminar groups are encouraged to arrive at solutions to problems through individual study, analytical reasoning, reflective thinking, and group discussion. One hundred and sixty-six students attend this academic year course annually. B. COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE (1) The mission of the Command and Staff College is to increase the professional competence of Air Force officers for command and staff duties. (2) The curriculum as a whole is oriented toward a general approach to military education. The philosophy of a general education is supported by studies in the elements of national power, air staff organization, staff planning, command, and basic military doctrine, and exercises in operational employment. The course consists of lectures and seminars. Guests and faculty members give the lectures. Material presented in the lectures is expanded upon and discussed in seminars. Other seminars are devoted to solving simulated command and staff problems. Six hundred students attend this course annually. C. SQUADRON OFFICER SCHOOL (1) The Squadron Officer School operates the USAF resident professional school for squadron grade officers and prepares selected officers for the command tasks asociated with squadrons and for the performance of staff duties normally performed by captains and lieutenants. (2) The Squadron Officer School is concerned with education rather than training and seeks to develop the whole man. In the mental, physical, and spiritual areas the Squadron Officer School tries to guide the young officer toward his maximum potential as a leader in the Air Force. The school offers 3 courses of 14 weeks duration each, to 3,000 officers annually. D. ACADEMIC INSTRUCTOR SCHOOL The Academic Instructor School has the mission of increasing the effectiveness of selected Air Force instructors. The school offers 6 classes annually to officers, airmen, and civilians for an annual output of over 1,000 students. E. WARFARE SYSTEMS SCHOOL The objective of the Warfare Systems School is to increase the technical knowledge of Air Force officers in warfare systems. It provides three resident courses and various briefings. This course has a maximum input of 150 officers annually. F. EXTENSION COURSE INSTITUTE (1) The Extension Course Institute at Gunter AFB, Ala., is responsible for conducting correspondence type training for the Air Force. Enrollment in ECI is approximately 300,000 students. Participation in ECI courses is open to Air Force officers and airmen both on active duty and reservists, Army, Navy, Marine Corps personnel, CAP members and civilian employees of the Department of Defense. (2) ECI currently offers a curriculum of 109 courses. Of these, five are general in nature and the balance are specialized, pertaining to Air Force career areas. In all, 29 career areas are represented in the curriculum. G. THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (1) The mission is to provide education to meet the technological, scientific, and other professional requirements of the Air Force as follows: (a) Provision of graduate and undergraduate engineering and graduate management programs at the resident college located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (b) Administration of the civilian institutions program under which Air Force personnel are educated in a wide variety of professional fields in civilian colleges, universities, hospitals, medical schools, and industrial establishments. (2) Academic and military prerequisite vary somewhat for each particular program. However, the general basic eligibility criteria and academic prerequisite is as follows: (a) Be a career officer in the grade of lieutenant colonel or below. (b) Completion of at least 18 months' active duty as an officer. (c) Officers who do not possess a baccalaureate degree must successfully complete USAFI College level GED tests, and possess at least 30 semester hours of college credit. (3) In the foreign language training area, officers and airmen are selected to attend in order to satisfy specific Air Force needs. In all other phases of the IT program, officers submit formal applications for attendance. Personnel selected for IT training attend in a full-time duty status on official Air Force orders. They receive full pay and allowances. The Air Force pays all tuition charges, cost of books up to a maximum of $50 and all incidental fees. (4) Programs: (a) Resident program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (1) Training is offered in the following fields: Astronautical engineering. Engineering sciences. Electrical engineering. Nuclear engineering. Industrial administration.' Engineering administration.1 Applied comptrollership.' Civil engineering (base and staff personnel entering are engineers but need training in service operations). Advanced logistics. Engineering management.' (2) Officer input into this program was 392 in fiscal year 1959. (b) Civilian institutions program. (1) During fiscal year 1959, instruction was provided at 78 civilian colleges (exclusive of short courses, training with industry, and medical) and universities in the following fields: 1 No further enrollments will be made in the resident program in these courses. courses are being transferred to civilian institution. The |