Squadron Officer School - Cogito Yearbook (Montgomery, AL)

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Q.. education program. Unlike the other services, the Air Force sends selected lieutenants and captains to an in- tensive 'l4-week course in uniquely planned professional development at the Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Air Force stress on early develop- ment results in an annual attendance of approximately 2,500 officers at an investment of over 54,500 per man. The intensified, accelerated curriculum is not limited to leadership as such, but deals with the entire scope of the mental, moral, and physical attributes of the officer, the whole man concept. Nevertheless, the entire course contributes to leadership development. All efforts are aimed at building a broad and firm foundation which a leader in today's Air Force must have. A large block of college-level instruction falls in the area of communica- tive skills, during which the student is given practical help in Writing, speaking, problem solving, and creative thinking. He absorbs some 60 hours of instruction in national power and international relations, during which he studies ideologies, communism, democracy, national power and policy, alliances, and the broad organization of the notion for security. He learns more about the tools he will use as a commander, such as the military iustice ,asf 1-1 1 ,, c... ' -Quinn!! 'av ., it 1 x An-dh. ae t -Ak V+, Z AM f-t - e ve ,in Fate? ' l -', ' . V . sggsfgszsiifcn., . 1 .. ' 2 ' M ' hi' 2 2:-z .... .',Im1',4f. ' K ., - -A A, ' ' P-:V . Y I' rl viii H I A ' u' g 'Y K ' ,id ,. we S , Z, Y . ,Y V m.1mntrn5,z.a.i.4.s.- ,Wi - Y 3+- ' - F

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