[1] Together, ASBC and Squadron Officer School comprised the Air Force's Basic Developmental Education (BDE) program.

One week of the course ran concurrently with a combined program at the Senior NCO Academy at Maxwell-Gunter Annex.

ASBC was dedicated to inculcate "a warrior ethos in the Air Force’s youngest officers through a rigorous experiential and academic program aimed at imparting critical warfighting skills while simultaneously introducing students to the full range of Air Force operations, organizational constructs, and doctrinal concepts.

"[2] A component of the airpower doctrine instruction takes place through classroom "wargames" that simulate theater-level combat operations.

Rather, given severe financial pressures on the service, it was determined that elimination of ASBC would save over $12 million annually ($13.4 million in 2018 dollars) in temporary duty travel and per diem costs for sending newly commissioned second lieutenants to Maxwell AFB while en route to their follow-on duty stations.