Squadron Officer School - Cogito Yearbook (Montgomery, AL)

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Facing you is an enemy trying to use surprise, mass, maneuverability, and all the other principles for employing aerospace power that you have been taught. These old, tried and true principles are, however, guiding war-making implements of the atomic age. Will the principles be ef- fective in the iet and missile age? What an interesting opportunity to put into practice and test what you have learned of the impact of technology on modern warfare. As the panorama of the Squadron Officer School curri- culum streaks by your mental eye, you suddenly recall how you came to be in such a delicate and vital position. lt all began about two weeks ago, iust ten short weeks after your arrival at Squadron Officer School. The previous tenlweeks were a constant flow of information from the faculty to you. Lately you realized that the flow had dwindled to a trickle and so subtly that you couldn't tell exactly when the steady stream began to diminish. You slowly began to realize that the school intelligence brief- ings were following a pattern. The enemy was acting more brashly. Finally his moves became so bold you realized it was time for counteraction. His constant nibbling away at weak, neutral and undecided countries had to be stopped. X l .. 'l - fa ' TTR -A vi , ., ,,-V . :Q .. ' 31-1 .. ..-o- ,, 1 1 ,I V - ,, N ' 'uc on ik. -4 5 hr f : Pu' ull ly: 153 - A , ,A .X eq hp B ffl ',i'i'ii 4? 'T 'k.1 ' ilk? 549 W nun- inns MM Q tl , S ,Nat . V 55131 'f5'fu.,:fss?u my f f zest: ,ee X. A-W 4, ,maori ...www A T. gi if .v :fam E ..-W 4 f m., in ,- I ,J . fe- in ,f E ,T H 1 qs: +r:..,: . , Jhtzff ,. ,L .ii xa Wwe. fi X :Ii ivigisifir 1 h ,wi rv ' 1 9 iam? an a iswrss if , Us 'ill 1 .avi y ,. tex I '57 if F, l ,z f U 24 Y 4 if 'x-1 ,9- nu uv u -et A5-r 4. ,.,,,g

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makeup of an aerospace defense system, you placed cer- tain men on the radar staff and charged them to lay out a warning and control system that would immediately alert you to air attacks from any direction, any altitude, and provide a control system so your interceptors could make killing attacks. Others you selected for the weapons staff. These men had to know the complete destruction capa- bility of ground-to-air missiles, BOMARCS, and each interceptor aircraft. Based upon a radar system of their own design they placed these weapons at carefully select- ed points within your division. The weapons were poised ta hit any raid before the enemy could iam the radar system, drop decoys, or launch air-to-surface missiles. The plan must include a sufficient amount of armament to annihilate any maior enemy strike force. Still other mem- bers of your staff are capable of directing fighters to intercept points and reporting the probable kills achieved from any action taken. These men face you now. They await your order. Twelve weeks of concentrated learning flash through the computer banks of your mind and all then filter through the last bank - the evaluation bank - the stage when myriad bits of data are transformed into what is best described as sound military iudgment. You don't falter when you say, Launch 12 nuclear-tipped BOMARCS into the raid. Scramble Green and Blue flights for mop-up action. The order given, you suddenly realize what every com- mander does at that precise time. As well as you were prepared, you still have that gnawing concern. Might you have done better? Could you have known more, anticipated earlier, countered more quickly, or issued an order with a more telling and lasting effect? Now you know! ls it too late? Nol That order will have to stand but each succes- sive one will get better. You have the situation well in hand. Finally, the windup to the 'I4-week curriculum offers you and your eight hundred plus Classmates a l0-hour seminar in which you use basic information and aerospace history as a springboard - a platform for breakaway con- ceptual thinking against any and all future happenings, whether they involve space, exotic weaponry, Computer- ized military machinery, or tedious iungle warfare and counterinsurgency actions. Think. Think without limit. No checkrein on ideas. The Air Force of tomorrow needs yout ideas for the day after tomorrow - and it needs them today, for, just as your forces were conceived from the ideas developed yesterday, there is built-in lead time that cannot be forsaken. Go to it, Joe Jones. Nobody has been better prepared.