“We do make changes in how we train airmen in order to improve the effectiveness of our training, but we do not lower our standards,” he wrote in January 2022. Slife, then the top officer at AFSOC, pushed back on claims that the organization is growing soft.
An internal investigation found that conflicting fitness standards within the enterprise contributed to an appearance of foul play. The Air Force codified multiple changes to special warfare training after allegations surfaced last year that it had allowed an unqualified female candidate to progress through the pipeline.
Only in IV Corps, the Mekong Delta region, were there no large numbers of American troops. But the test was also revised to make it easier to succeed in events, such as the long jump, that officials believe are less valuable to tomorrow’s commandos. By 1966 US troops had been committed in large numbers to three of the four corps areas of Vietnam. The top-level review is one piece of a broader reckoning within AFSOC over the expertise its members should bring to the battlefield and how its units should be organized.įor instance, airmen vying to join special warfare - the most elite subset of special operations - now face a fitness test that is broadly more challenging than in the past. Asked how AFSOC might adapt the selection process, Heyse said those details are still under analysis.Įliminating combat dive is the only request Bauernfeind has made to update training so far, she said.
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