If you were asked to teach a class of your own subject. What would you teach ?

[LogDog75]

77. No, not like ROTC

The purpose of PME is to prepare NCOs for greater duties and responsibilities commensurate with their rank or upcoming promotion to the next higher rank. PME teaches NCO supervisory and management skills, leadership, communications (oral and written, and public speaking), military history, and drill and ceremony. Think of it as a training program for mid-managers. In a civilian company, there is little training when it comes to teaching supervising and how to manage people and resources. The AF decided decades ago that preparing NCOs through PME was the best way to provide a conduit for a trained NCO corps.

What I found interesting about the NCO Leadership School, NCO Academy, and the Senior NCO Academy was meeting other NCOs from different units and how they supervise/manage their people. In the AF, there are basically two types of personnel; line and support. Line personnel are the ones who are more associated with aircraft and weapon systems and support personnel are those in finance, medical, administrative, etc.. who take care of the line personnel and the rest of the base personnel. How line NCOs supervise their troops versus support NCO is totally different mainly because of the nature of the line and support jobs.