"Rise of the Mavericks traces the beginnings and subsequent development of the U.S. Air Force Security Service. Established in 1948 as part of the emerging U.S. national security apparatus, this ...communications intelligence organization was meant to place the fledgling U.S. Air Force on a competitive footing with its Army and Navy counterparts. As World War II ended and the Cold War began, Air Force leaders understood that an effective cryptologic capability would be crucial for maintaining and enhancing the Air Force as a strategic and decisive component of America's national defense. Successfully deploying air-atomic strategy in the event of a future war would require reliable information on the capabilities, intentions-and potential targets-of an opposing force, in particular the Soviet Union. Communications intelligence would be a critical source of this information, and Air Force leaders were adamant that their service not remain de
Speed Gilliland, Bob
2021, 20210601, 2021-06-01
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Speed depicts the life of Bob Gilliland, an accomplished pilot and principle test pilot for the SR-71 Blackbird, and his journey with this record-breaking aircraft that helped win the Cold War.
Despite the broad literature base on factor analysis best practices, research seeking to evaluate a measure's psychometric properties frequently fails to consider or follow these recommendations. ...This leads to incorrect factor structures, numerous and often overly complex competing factor models and, perhaps most harmful, biased model results. Our goal is to demonstrate a practical and actionable process for factor analysis through (a) an overview of six statistical and psychometric issues and approaches to be aware of, investigate, and report when engaging in factor structure validation, along with a flowchart for recommended procedures to understand latent factor structures; (b) demonstrating these issues to provide a summary of the updated Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL-5) factor models and a rationale for validation; and (c) conducting a comprehensive statistical and psychometric validation of the PCL-5 factor structure to demonstrate all the issues we described earlier. Considering previous research, the PCL-5 was evaluated using a sample of 1,403 U.S. Air Force remotely piloted aircraft operators with high levels of battlefield exposure. Previously proposed PCL-5 factor structures were not supported by the data, but instead a bifactor model is arguably more statistically appropriate.
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The Royal Air Force Buckley, John; Beaver, Paul
2018, 2018-06-22, 2018-07-04
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The story of the Royal Air Force, from its creation as the first major independent air force in the world in 1918, through World War and Cold War, to the struggle against jihadi terrorism in the 21st ...century.
Results are presented for the largest study (N = 53,692) ever conducted on the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), a popular measure of resilience. We examined the internal ...consistency of the CD-RISC items and associated mean resilience levels within a sample of enlisted basic trainees in the United States Air Force. In addition, the predictive validity of the CD-RISC Total Score was examined for real-life military outcomes, including attrition from service and mental health diagnosis. The CD-RISC items demonstrated strong internal consistency. Item-level examinations of scores revealed that most trainees reported relatively high resilience. Results indicated that resilience measured at the beginning of military service is a significant predictor of (a) attrition from service and (b) obtaining a mental health diagnosis within 6 months of entry. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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In February 2020, the U.S. Air Force Medical Service sponsored a 2-day symposium to address ethical aspects of an expanding role of psychologists as embedded behavioral health (EBH) providers in the ...Air Force. The purpose of the symposium was to begin an organized, intentional, and continuing exploration of ethical issue psychologists and other mental health professionals encounter in embedded settings. The impetus for the symposium is the rapid expansion of EBH into more conventional force units within the Air Force. This expansion will include large numbers of civilian providers. Existing literature has focused on actions embedding psychologists should take, but has given little attention to organizational-level actions that could influence the ability to operate successfully in such contexts (e.g., training and personnel selection). The authors first describe the origins, format, and conclusions of the symposium and then identify issues discussed at the symposium as essential in formulating a satisfactory and comprehensive ethical framework to govern EBH for psychologists. The authors conclude by setting forth an agenda to carry the work of the symposium forward. This agenda emphasizes the value of engaging across services and with nonmilitary psychologists in discussing the application of psychology's ethics to this expanding area of practice with an increasing involvement of civilian psychologists. Air Force psychologists view such broad engagement as invaluable and intend this article to be a springboard for such engagement.
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This article examines ethical aspects of an expanding role for psychologists within the U.S. military, that of embedded behavioral health provider. This role will soon include a significant number of civilian psychologists to meet the military's growing appreciation of and need for psychologists and other providers in all facets of mission delivery. The article describes a symposium supported by Air Force leadership to create and disseminate a framework to guide both civilian- and military-embedded providers in the embedded role toward the highest standards of professional ethics.
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