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New Warfare Center commander visits 505th CCW

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  • By Noel Getlin
  • 505th CCW Public Affairs
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. --  Brig. Gen. Ted Kresge would agree command and control is not the easiest concept to wrap your arms around. 

During a recent two-week visit to the Emerald Coast, his first since taking command of the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center in May, the general spent one week with leaders from the 505th Command and Control Wing here. 

"What I learned is that I had no idea," the general said of the 505th's mission. The wing is one of five wings in the Warfare Center organization. "Like everything else in life, no matter what you think it is, when you see it for yourself you realize that it is incredibly more complex and challenging than you ever imagined." 

The 505th Command and Control Wing, commanded by Col. Ed McKinzie, is tasked to test command and control systems, conduct tactics development for command and control, and provide training through academics and exercises for initial, continuation and advanced training for joint Air and Space Operations Centers across the globe. 

The Air and Space Operations Centers command air, space and cyber operations within a given theater working with coalition forces, the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines. The wing trains about 230 Air Force senior officers a year, 1,300 Air and Space Operations Center crewmembers, and has a joint exercise training audience of about 70,000 per year. 

During the general's immersion, he participated in the course for Joint and Combined Force Air Component Commanders - the course given to Component Numbered Air Force senior leaders on policy and procedures before they assume duties in an Air and Space Operations Center. 

General Kresge said he hopes the Warfare Center, which falls under Air Combat Command, will become a multi-major command Warfare Center, improving the processes and procedures for theater warfare operations. 

"If we learn to be a multi-major command Warfare Center, we will be so much better as an Air Force and a Warfare Center," General Kresge said. "There's absolutely no reason the 505th shouldn't be the Air, Space and Cyber 505th. It's what it is chartered to do. It's just not resourced. So now here's our chance to build it right."
But the general left no doubt as to the importance of the wing's mission and all it is accomplishing now. 

"What they (the 505th) do, nobody else in the world does," General Kresge said. "If there wasn't a 505th, there would be young Airmen going into harm's way with very complex weapons systems with no idea whether they work or how they work. It's incomprehensible."

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New Warfare Center commander visits 505th CCW

  • Published
  • By Noel Getlin
  • 505th CCW Public Affairs
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. --  Brig. Gen. Ted Kresge would agree command and control is not the easiest concept to wrap your arms around. 

During a recent two-week visit to the Emerald Coast, his first since taking command of the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center in May, the general spent one week with leaders from the 505th Command and Control Wing here. 

"What I learned is that I had no idea," the general said of the 505th's mission. The wing is one of five wings in the Warfare Center organization. "Like everything else in life, no matter what you think it is, when you see it for yourself you realize that it is incredibly more complex and challenging than you ever imagined." 

The 505th Command and Control Wing, commanded by Col. Ed McKinzie, is tasked to test command and control systems, conduct tactics development for command and control, and provide training through academics and exercises for initial, continuation and advanced training for joint Air and Space Operations Centers across the globe. 

The Air and Space Operations Centers command air, space and cyber operations within a given theater working with coalition forces, the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines. The wing trains about 230 Air Force senior officers a year, 1,300 Air and Space Operations Center crewmembers, and has a joint exercise training audience of about 70,000 per year. 

During the general's immersion, he participated in the course for Joint and Combined Force Air Component Commanders - the course given to Component Numbered Air Force senior leaders on policy and procedures before they assume duties in an Air and Space Operations Center. 

General Kresge said he hopes the Warfare Center, which falls under Air Combat Command, will become a multi-major command Warfare Center, improving the processes and procedures for theater warfare operations. 

"If we learn to be a multi-major command Warfare Center, we will be so much better as an Air Force and a Warfare Center," General Kresge said. "There's absolutely no reason the 505th shouldn't be the Air, Space and Cyber 505th. It's what it is chartered to do. It's just not resourced. So now here's our chance to build it right."
But the general left no doubt as to the importance of the wing's mission and all it is accomplishing now. 

"What they (the 505th) do, nobody else in the world does," General Kresge said. "If there wasn't a 505th, there would be young Airmen going into harm's way with very complex weapons systems with no idea whether they work or how they work. It's incomprehensible."