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

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

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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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.

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OT Focus: Schuyler Collis

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Class 11-05 Participates in 20th Annual Pancake Run for Missionsby OT Capt. David Murphy

Tigers from Flight 3-12 joined Hoyas and 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

for their age group respectively.

I spent most of my life growing up in Delaware. In tenth grade I

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.

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

“Anything that can be done, can be done better.”- David J. Murphy, Officer Trainee

A leader is a dealer in hope.- Napoleon Bonaparte

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”- Harold R. McAlindon

Monday - Drill Competition Practice

Enlisted Heritage HallAir Force

Morale Night

Tuesday - Tuskegee Airmen Movie

Squadrons Board SupportTuskegee NHS Visit

Dining Out Dry Run I

WednesdaySupervisor in Basket

Flight PhotosCT-Civil Air Patrol Incentive

Wing Brief OffFinancial Briefing (USAA)

ThursdayCareer Day

Dining Out Overview/IST Briefing with Rated OTs

End of Course OTPR FeedbackCol. Leo K. Thorsness

FridayStaff/OT Mini-mac & Flickerball

Parade Practice #5Wing Boards SupportGrad Week OverviewO’Club Orientation

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Birthdays

OT Erwin’s Wife - 24 May

Personal Events

The Intel Brief: UN: North Korea, Iran trade missile technology

by Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

NEW YORK — North Korea and Iran appear to have been regularly exchanging ballistic missile technology in violation of U.N. sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report obtained by Reuters on Saturday.

The report said the illicit technology transfers had “trans-shipment through a neighboring third country.” That country was China, several diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The report was submitted to the Security Council by a U.N. Panel of Experts, a group that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang after it conducted two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.

The U.N. sanctions included a ban on trade in nuclear and missile technology with North Korea, as well as an arms embargo. They also banned

trade with a number of North Korean firms and called for asset freezes and travel bans on some North Korean individuals.

“Prohibited ballistic missile-related items are suspected to have been transferred between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Islamic Republic of Iran on regular scheduled flights of Air Koryo and Iran Air,” the report said.

“For the shipment of cargo, like arms and related materiel, whose illicit nature would become apparent on any cursory physical inspection, (North) Korea seems to prefer chartered cargo flights,” it said.

It added that the aircraft tended to fly “from or to air cargo hubs which lack the kind of monitoring and security to which passenger terminals and flights are now subject.”

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Expeditionary Leadership Problems

The different chalks from class 11-05 march towards their respective starting points in ELPs.

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 f lights 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.

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OT Maj. Canaan Barger gets ready for ELPs.

OTs double time to their destination during one of the ELPs exercises.

OT Capt. David Murphy provides security for his chalk during one of the ELPs.

OTs in Chalk 4 take a break in between ELPs. Breaks were welcome in 90+ degree heat that OTs had to conduct their exercises in.

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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.

Class members partake in a showing of Top Gun at the morale tent during AEF.

Members of Flight 3-12 take part in the war gaming exercise. They use a videogame to represent the operation of a command center. In the game they must rescue Americans from Cuba using C-17s

OT Capt. Walt Cochran IV looks out the window of the bus he is taking to get him to his “deployed” location.

Tags help to identify which duffle bag belongs to whom.

OT 1st Lt. Ramon Underwood mentally prepares himself for the upcoming base takeover.

The tools of the trade during AEF included a paintball gun, mask, hopper, paintballs, and compressed air canister.continued from page 1

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

OT 1st Lt. Bryan Rastovic takes a brief respite during the Base Defense exercises.

A soaking wet Capt. Bryan Butler reacts to being thrown in a pool of water.

OTs crawl with their back on the ground during one of the exercises on the Assault Course on the last day of AEF.

Class members partake in a showing of Top Gun at the morale tent during AEF.

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