Guilt by Association? A Blending of Air Force Cultures

<p>With long-standing historic culture differences legal restrictions and different functional chains of command can Air Force Active Duty Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel co-exist as part of the same operational unit to form an effective warfighting team? This paper will utilize the Problem/Solution Research Methodology to present the key to break the cultural barriers of Total Force Integration. It is imperative that Air Force leaders understand how to overcome the limitations and synergize the diverse strengths of both the active duty and Citizen Airmen1 culture to develop an operationally effective warfighting team.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>