Course Description for RC JPME

• AJPME Course description
• AJPME Technical Requirements
• AJPME Joint Learning Areas and Objectives
• AJPME Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

AJPME Course description

In the Fiscal Year 1999 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress tasked the Department of Defense (DOD), stating:

In order to prepare reserve component (RC) field grade officers for joint duty assignments, the committee directs that a course similar in content to, but not identical to, the in-residence [Joint] Forces Staff College course for field grade active component officers be developed as soon as possible.

Periods of in-residence training, as well as distance learning, present the best combination of academic rigor, cohort development, and cross-service acculturation.

The Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) was tasked to develop a JFSC-like JPME program on "joint matters" for reserve component field-grade officers who will serve as augmentees to Joint Task Force (JTF) and Crisis Action Team (CAT) staffs. The program was tasked with ensuring that these officers arrive at combatant commanders' headquarters fully prepared with the required joint staff officer skills.

The program developed by JFSC to meet Congressional requirements consists of approximately 80 hours of advanced distributed learning (ADL) and 130 hours of face-to-face time presented in four blocks. The curriculum is characterized by a progression from higher-order cognitive activities to affective exercises that encourages attitudinal shifts. The cognitive learning activities focus on recall and mastery of information, application of concepts and principles, problem solving, discovery, and building on existing military experiences. The affective learning activities will foster recognition and integration of new attitudes and values that promote joint acculturation. The Advanced Joint Professional Military Education curriculum consists of the following primary sections:

• Administration, Orientation, and Assessment
• Strategy
• Campaigning
• Deliberate Planning Process

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AJPME Technical Requirements

The lessons for the AJPME course have been developed to operate on the following minimum personal computer standards:

• Operating system: Windows 95^© or newer
• CPU (Processor): Pentium^©-based 500MHz PC with a CD-ROM drive
• Memory: 64 MB RAM (128 MB preferred)
• Internet Connection: 56 Kbps
• Monitor: 15-inch
• Pixel resolution: 800 X 600
• Display: 256-color
• Sound card and speakers
• Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer^© 5.0 through 5.5 (service pack 2)

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AJPME JOINT LEARNING AREAS AND OBJECTIVES

1. Overview. Advanced Joint Professional Military Education (AJPME) at JFSC is a Reserve Component (RC) course similar in content, but not identical to, the in-residence JFSC Phase II course. AJPME students shall be JPME Phase I graduates.
2. Mission. The mission of JFSC is: to educate military officers and other national security leaders in joint, multinational and interagency operational-level planning and warfighting; and to instill a primary commitment to joint, multinational and interagency teamwork, attitudes and perspectives.
1. AJPME educates RC officers and builds upon the foundation established in JPME Phase I. It prepares RC officers (O-4 to O-6) for joint duty assignments.
2. AJPME fulfills the requirement for RC JPME directed in DODI 1215.20, “Reserve Component Joint Officer Management Program” (reference d).
3. Learning Area 1 -- National Strategic Security Systems and Guidance and Command Structures
1. Apply appropriate strategic security policies and guidance used in developing joint operational plans across the range of military operations to support national objectives.
2. Analyze the integration of all instruments of national power in achieving strategic objectives. Focus on the proper employment of the military instrument of national power at the joint force level both as a supported instrument and as a supporting instrument of national power.
4. Learning Area 2 -- Joint, Interagency and Multinational Capabilities
1. Synthesize the capabilities and limitations of all Services (own Service, other Services -- to include SOF) in achieving the appropriate strategic objectives in joint operations.
2. Analyze the capabilities and limitations of multinational forces in achieving the appropriate strategic objectives in coalition operations.
3. Analyze the capabilities and limitations of the interagency processes in achieving the appropriate strategic objectives in joint operational plans.
4. Comprehend the attributes of the future joint force and how this force will organize, plan, prepare and conduct operations.
5. Value a thoroughly joint perspective and appreciate the increased power available to commanders through joint, multinational, interagency efforts and teamwork.
5. Learning Area 3 -- Information Operations
1. Analyze the principles, capabilities and limitations of information operations across the range of military operations and plans —to include both pre- and post-conflict operations
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2. Analyze the use of information operations to achieve desired effects across the spectrum of national security threats.
6. Learning Area 4 -- Joint Planning
1. Synthesize examples of campaign/theater planning and operations. Focus on the use of planning concepts, techniques and procedures as well as integration of battlespace support systems.
2. Analyze complex contingency operations for use of appropriate planning principles.
3. Apply current technology, modeling, simulation and wargaming to accomplish the synchronization, employment, support and transportation planning of the joint force.
4. Analyze the appropriate mix of battlespace support systems and functions to develop joint operational plans.
5. Apply an analytical framework that incorporates the role that factors such as geopolitics, geostrategy, society, culture and religion play in shaping the desired outcomes of policies, strategies and campaigns in the joint, interagency, and multinational arena.

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AJPME Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

Q. Who is eligible?
A. Reserve Component officers in the grades of O4 to O6 who are currently serving in or who will be serving in an RC Joint Duty Assignment.

Q. How do I apply?
A. Individuals must apply via their respective Service. JFSC cannot take direct applications for the program. The Services and the Joint Staff are currently working on Service-specific procedures for attending the AJPME Course.

Q. Do I get pay and/or points for attending?
A. Again, this is a Service/Joint Staff issue that is currently being worked.

Q. What do I get out of this course once I've completed it?
A. DoDI 1215.20 outlines the procedure for becoming "fully joint qualified"; one of the requirements is attendance in the AJPME Course. The other requirement is working in a joint billet.

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