Re:You want to know what's behind that gate? (Score 1)

CDCs are a similar, but strangely different, situation. There is a staff of CDC writers for the entire 3C group (one for each of the AFSCs, of course). As is fairly obvious with the squadron once you've been there for a while, it's a very large unit with a strange composition - lots and lots of students, a lot of instructors, and bare bones support staff.

Instructors are in class pretty much 8 hours per day, and they're going to be undermanned as a rule due to a deficiency in the manning computation formula. As such, they as the large majority of usable assets carry most of the additional duties, but they cannot do the heavily time-intensive tasks. The orderly room isn't going to pick up those tasks since they already have more work to do than most orderly rooms (due to the volume of students they have to process as well), and the civilians aren't going to touch anything like that without threat of bodily harm (which would be actionable under the union). That leaves the few military support personnel, which in a training squadron is pretty much comprised of the CDC writers since they don't have a constant workload in most cases.

I'm not excusing the fact that the CDCs are severely lacking, but the normal day-to-day activities of the CDC writers focuses around additional taskings, and when changes come from AFIADL (formerly ECI, which is at Gunter Annex in Alabama...another level of beaurocracy? =p) it's a distrubance to them rather than their job. They already have too many short suspenses to deal with and then more tedium is added to the pile.

In my opinion (let me emphasize that it is my opinion, not a statement of fact), that is why not enough attention is paid to updating the CDCs. In theory, regulation is supposed to mandate that CDCs will be rewritten and released within 180 days of a new CFETP. That's pretty tough when the job has gone unfilled in at least one career field for three years. It's not an enviable position.

Again, I would agree that the training can and should be greatly improved. I'm not saying that all that goes on in training is beautiful and smells nice on a sunny day. I'm merely trying to illustrate that there are some fairly severe mitigating factors involved that are contributing to the stink...