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AFI 52-101 — Planning and Organizing

AFI 52-101 is listed as current Current
in the AF e-Publishing catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged.
BranchU.S. Air Force
SeriesAFI
Publication date2023-11-29 (2.7 years ago)
StatusCurrent
Proponent / OPRAF/HC
Source of recordAF e-Publishing

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What changed in this edition

This document has been substantially revised and must be completely reviewed. Major changes include a substantial restructuring of the publication. It introduces specific advisory bodies and clarifies confidential and privileged communication requirements and considerations. Finally, this instruction has been reissued as a DAF Instruction and its language now incorporates the U.S. Space Force (USSF), which is served by chaplains and Religious Affairs Airmen belonging to the U.S. Air Force (USAF)

Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.

If AFI 52-101 changes, who else is affected

Functional communityPublicationsWhich ones
Materiel Management2AFMAN 23-122 AFMC Sup, DAFMAN 23-300 ACC Sup
Personnel1DAFMAN 36-2100
Public Affairs1AFI 35-101
Services1DAFI 34-101

5 publications in 4 other communities depend on this one, which Chaplain owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.

Publications that cite AFI 52-101

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