This regulation sets up the HQ Air Force Intelligence Command (AFIC) Historical Program and tells how to collect information to produce accurate and interpretive histories for AFIC. It applies to all HQ AFIC staff offices. It does not apply to HQ AFIC-gained Air National Guard or Air Force Reserve units.
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The Command Historical Office (HQ AFIC/HO) will supervise this program and:
Prepare an annual history of Air Force Intelligence Command, consisting of special historical studies, monographs, and calendar-year histories, which may include special intelligence (SI) information. AFR 2 1 0-1 requires this history and assigns it RCS: HAF-CHO(AR)7 I 0 1.
Maintain an SI historical archive for Headquarters United States Air Force including SI historical material from AFIC and other Air Force organizations.
All HQ AFIC major staff offices will appoint a point of contact (POC) for historical activities and submit their name, telephone number, and building and room numbers to HQ AFIC/HO.
HQ will meet with the staff office POC. At this meeting, HO will specify topics to include in the calendar-year history and ask the staff office POC to provide the information and documents needed (as written input, documentation only; an interview; or combination of all three).
When HO requests written input, follow
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Prepare each input in narrative format and chronological order; answer: who, what, why, where, when, and how. Prepare the narrative input of each subject requested in the following format:
Explain what transpired on the topic up to the current year. Attach appropriate supporting documentation.
Explain the developments, achievements, or problems that occurred during the past year; cite exact and complete dates (day, month, year) for each action. Answer who, what, why, where, when, and how. Attach appropriate supporting documentation.
List sources from which you obtained the information in footnote format (see attachment 1). Attach one copy of each supporting document. Examples of supporting documents are letters, memorandums, messages, staff studies, trip reports, internal activity reports, etcetera.
List the name of the person most knowledgeable on the subject (include office symbol, building number, room number, and telephone number).
Submit each report in double-spaced, letter format. Indicate the period covered by the report in the subject of the letter.
Background.
Narrative Discussion.
Sources.
Author.
Each subject paragraph, and subparagraph must show its classification. Classification authority will be included.
Send the requested inputs to HQ AFIC/HO by I February.
HO will coordinate draft manuscripts with the offices of primary responsibility before publication.
(U) BACKGROUND (U). The Twenty-Fifth Air Force was organized on I January 1963 when the Middle Pacific Command (MPC), a component of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), and the Advanced Composite Strike Force (ACSF), a component of the Tactical Air Command (TAC), were combined to form the new or ganization. 1 Major General Harvey S. Ironstone assumed command of the new organization upon its activation Following a policy long established by Headquarters United States Air Force, Maj Gen Ironstone had a free hand in shaping the formation of his new command's operational policies. 3
(S) NARRATIVE (U). In its first month of operation, aircraft of the Twenty-Fifth Air Force, principally its F-99s, flew 9,622 sorties and dropped close to 20,000 tons of conventional bombS.4 These figures were almost double the sortie and tonnage rates for December 1962; yet, aircraft losses to enemy action dropped from 58 in December to 39 in January 1963.5
(U) PROJECT OFFICER (U). Captain John J. Doe/HQ AFIC/XPP/Building 2000/Room 287/telephone 6-2835/ Date Prepared: 31 Jan 91.
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(U) This sample input is unclassified. Paragraph classification markings are included as sample guidance only.