They are expecting someone to be watching, caring. Someone to supervise them. Too often, they're supervising themselves. As the force shrinks, and as our world changes, our military must be even more educationally fit to meet both the national and world challenges that have placed new demands on the military. The Air Force strongly believes that an educated airman brings more to the fight.
Education enhances their ability to understand the military's role as an instrument of diplomacy.
Military education gives our airmen the ability to think critically. Our people must be intellectually prepared to assume leadership positions in the Air Force and within joint and coalition forces of the 21st century. Without educated men and women who understand aerospace power, all of our great technology is mere heaps of metal sitting on the ramp or floating through space. Military education will help you move away from being Air Force specialists and toward warfighting strategists. The key to working together jointly begins with understanding each other's warfighting perspective, and by seeking opportunities to depend on the other services to accomplish tasks for which they are better suited.