LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. –
In 1975, the Air Force and the Army created an organization called the Air Land Forces Application Agency to help resolve the interoperability issues both forces experienced during the Vietnam War. After Operation Desert Storm, both services realized, based on lessons learned, they needed to incorporate the Marine Corps and the Navy into the agency, and changed the name to the Air Land Sea Application Center.
"The Air Land Sea Application Center helps meet the immediate needs of the warfighter," said Col. David Hume, ALSA director, during the dining-out at the Langley Officer's Club on July 23 in order to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of its founding. "Our mission is to rapidly and responsively develop multi-service tactics, techniques, procedures, studies, and other like solutions across the entire military spectrum."
Each branch of the military has its own tactics, techniques and procedures. ALSA pulls the service's TTPs together into one document, thus creating a common language across the services.
The guest speaker for the dining-out was Brig. Gen. James J. Jones, a former ALSA Action Officer and current Deputy Director of Operations at U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.
During the dining-out, previous and current directors, action officers and spouses came together to see how the organization has grown over the past 35 years as well as to see old friends.
ALSA currently publishes 36 multi-service tactics, techniques and procedures publications. They include the Joint Application of Firepower, Brevity, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Cordon and Search and Tactical Convoy Operations.
Today, ALSA is the premier center to provide multi-Service solutions to the war fighter.
ALSA proudly continues to rapidly provide these solutions focused on the current and future operational environment - meeting the immediate needs of the war fighter.