Global Vigilance, Global Reach, Global Power for America: The World's Greatest Air Force - Powered by Airmen, Fueled by Innovation

This past year, the United States Air Force released a vision statement that focuses on Airmen, Mission, and Innovation. It recognizes Airmen as the power behind the Air Force and acknowledges the importance of innovation to our story. I encourage Airmen to understand and explain their role in producing airpower for America by telling the Air Force story through their own unique perspective. Building upon our vision, this article defines the Air Force s five enduring core missions air and space superiority intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ISR rapid global mobility global strike and command and control. Early airpower advocates, such as Brig Gen William Billy Mitchell, understood that the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power. 2 By integrating airpower capabilities within and across air, space, and cyberspace, Airmen bring to life the Air Force s core missions. Today, Airmen utilize emerging technologies in air, space, and cyberspace. We are the only service that brings them together in ways that permit our sister services the freedom to maneuver without fear of attack by enemy air forces. America has only one force specifically designed and precisely employed to exploit the unique global advantages realized from operating in air, space, and cyberspace.