【8月29日】看軍聞學英語

■泰戈爾

原文：

The U.S. Air Force is undertaking what leaders describe as its most significant overhaul of basic military training in more than seven decades. Maj. Gen. Davidson told Military.com that the effort is designed to fundamentally change how new Airmen think about their role in war.

At the center of that transformation is a concept Davidson calls "airmindedness." A mindset shift, he believes, is essential for the future fight. We had been wrestling with this identity problem for years, Davidson told Military.com.

For decades, Air Force Basic Military Training (BMT) at Lackland Air Force Base, TX, has succeeded at producing disciplined recruits and technically capable Airmen. But Davidson said it has not consistently defined what the Air Force is trying to create at the most fundamental level.

When he took command of 2nd Air Force, he started with a basic question: What are the objectives of training? "What I found is we didn’t have clear objectives to define what it was," he said. "In the absence of that, we just kind of wandered our way through basic training based on where we were in the time and place."

That realization led to a more deliberate effort to define the end state of basic training: what kind of Airman the service is trying to produce. Defining the ‘Airmindedness’ Davidson said that process ultimately led to the concept of "airmindedness."

中譯：

美國空軍正在進行領導階層所稱「70多年來最重大的基礎軍事訓練改革」。戴維森少將告訴《Military.com》，這項努力旨在從根本上改變新進空軍人員對其在戰爭中所扮演角色的思考方式。

這場轉型的核心是一個被戴維森稱為「空權思維」的概念。他認為，這種思維模式的轉變對於未來的戰鬥至關重要。戴維森告訴《Military.com》：「多年來，我們一直與這個身分認同問題博弈。」

數十年來，德州雷克蘭空軍基地的「空軍基礎軍事訓練」在培養紀律嚴明的新兵和技術精湛的空軍士兵方面非常成功。但戴維森表示，該訓練在最基礎層面上，尚未能始終如一地定義空軍究竟想創造出什麼樣的人才。

當他接管第2航空隊時，他從一個基本問題開始：訓練的目標是什麼？「我發現我們並沒有明確的目標來定義它。」他說，「在缺乏目標的情況下，我們只是根據當時的時間與地點，盲目地度過基礎訓練。」

這種體認促使他們更加刻意地去定義基礎訓練的最終狀態：即空軍試圖培養出什麼樣的士兵，定義「空權思維」。

※basic military training：基礎軍事訓練

※airmindedness：空權思維

※mindset shift：思維模式轉變