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Show New A F R 0 T C Curriculum Necessitates Advanced Texts; To Be in Use by September A new series of Air Force textbooks text-books will be available to the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Train-ing Corps cadets at the Branch Agricultural college, and to all the 145.000 cadets registered in the AFROTC throughout the country, when they begin their academic year in September. Approximately Ap-proximately 20 titles vHl be available with 11 more scheduled sched-uled for publication in 1954. The completed series will contain some 4.000 pages, it is understood. under-stood. The textbooks, designed to support sup-port the new generalized curriculum curri-culum cf the AFKOTC, are nw being prepared at the AFKOTC headquarters of the Air University Universi-ty in Montgomery, Ala. The new curriculum will be initiated in September. Air Force officials, realizing that air science has social and cultural significance in addition to a military one, have included in the new curriculum subject matter which approaches traditional tradi-tional college courses in geography, geo-graphy, problem solving, management man-agement and communication from a military standpoint. The textbooks will cover such subjects as "Introduction to Aviation", Avia-tion", "Fundamental Concepts of Aviation", "Global Geography and National Security", "Elements "Ele-ments of Aerial Warfare", "Techniques "Tech-niques of Problem Solving", "Communicating and Instructing", Instruct-ing", "Applied Air Science", "Military Aspects of World Political Poli-tical Geography", and "Functions of Command. Leadership, Management Man-agement Techniques and Career guidance." i The books have been prepared i under the supervision of experts in each field who worked closely with members of the Air University Univer-sity staff. The manuscripts were edited by a saff of professional writers under the direction of Charles E. Bounds, head of the journalism department of the University of Alabama. Thev will be deliverey before July 1 to the 200 AFROTC detachments de-tachments in the United States, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Advance copies of the final manuscripts will be sent to AFROTC instructors, instruc-tors, giving them five or six months to become familiar with the next texts. Changes in the curriculum, necessitating the new textbooks, are aspects of the general revamping re-vamping which has been taking place in the AFROTC program since the organization became centralized last year in a headquarters head-quarters under the jurisdiction of the Air Univresity. Previously all AFROTC detachments were under the supervision of the Continental Air Command. In conjunction with the textbooks, text-books, a new series of training aids, such as film transparencies, transparen-cies, mock-ups. models, charts and graphs, are also being planned plan-ned to help AFROTC instructors get the material across to the students. |