Mission: Training and educating the right student, in the right seat, at the right time, to inspire the spirit of the warfighter through religious accommodation, spiritual fitness, and leadership advisement.
Vision: Equipping the Total Force Chaplain Corps through training and education to ensure every warfighter is spiritually fit and ready!
Goals: Achieve vocational excellence, professional integrity, and service to others by
• Providing relevant knowledge, skills and resources for students to better perform their duties;
• Attracting, mentoring and recognizing quality people;
• Ensuring that faculty and course directors properly apply instructional system development principles;
• Securing resources to support mission requirements;
• Improving information flow and ensuring effective communication; and
• Monitoring the quality of support services and seeking necessary improvements.
Initiatives Summary
The instruction of enlisted students in crisis intervention skills, trauma pastoral care, and pluralism and faith group support requirements will further their professional abilities to support chaplains in peacetime and contingency operations. State-of-the-art integrated technology mediums, inclusive of virtual and augment reality have enhanced world-wide Chaplain Corps training efforts in leadership advisement, readiness, counseling, and global ministry efforts. Officer and enlisted evaluation systems have been added to all levels of instruction, ensuring that chaplain and senior enlisted support personnel will utilize competencies to evaluate and supervise appropriately.
AFCCC Commandant
Ch, Col Ralph T. Elliott Jr.
On behalf of the Air Force Chief of Chaplains, Ch Elliott directs an elite team of Enlisted, Officer, and Civilian faculty members in training and educating over 2,300 Total Force chaplains and religious affairs Airmen to provide worship, liturgies, religious rites and spiritual care to all Airmen, Guardians, and their families, while also serving as the primary advisers to commanders and senior enlisted leaders on moral, spiritual, ethical, and religious matters.