Developing Combat Support Mission Ready Airmen for Agile Combat Employment

To prepare for potential conflict with a peer competitor, the U.S. Air Force needs to develop combat support (CS) mission ready airmen (MRA) to successfully operate across different types of missions. To address concerns about developing CS MRA, RAND researchers evaluated the process of organizing, training, and utilizing them for agile combat employment by interviewing policy experts, conducting a workshop, and running simulation models.