scope:

The purpose of this instruction is to ensure standardized JTAC training across the Air Force and to implement the JTAC MOA. Standardized training ensures all JTACs are capable of providing effective air control for all counterland operations, particularly CAS. The complexity of integrating CAS with fire support and maneuver units requires a detailed understanding of air and space power. This instruction provides the minimum training required for personnel to attain and maintain JTAC qualification. Air Force JTACs meet all of the requirements outlined in the JTAC MOA and Joint Publication 3-09.3, Joint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Close Air Support (CAS).

This instruction provides guidance for conducting a JTAC Training program that will complement 11-202, Volume 1, Aircrew Training. The unit's JTAC training program is governed by this AFI, and will be supplemented in an operating instruction (OI) (T-3). The unit's OI may be comprehensive for the entire unit's training program or be a JTAC training specific document. Each unit with a JTAC program is expected to have a JTAC Training Plan.

The training program must be tailored to meet the unit's Joint Mission Tasks List (JMTL) and the aligned Army unit's Mission Essential Tasks Lists (METL). In addition, units must style the training program towards preparation for contingency taskings in IAW the Global Force Management Allocation Plan (GFMAP) and the unit's Designed Operational Capability (DOC).