| Branch | U.S. Air Force |
| Series | DAFI |
| Publication date | 2023-03-16 (3.4 years ago) |
| Status | Current |
| Proponent / OPR | AF/HO |
| Source of record | AF e-Publishing |
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This instruction provides guidance for conducting history operations in support of commanders’ objectives to build and preserve Department of the Air Force (DAF) institutional knowledge. Military history is an objective, accurate, descriptive, and interpretive record of all activities of the Armed Forces in peace and in war. It provides the foundation for training, education, es prit de corps, military problem-solving, and decision-making. The Department of the Air Force History and Museum Program (DAFHMP) is a public history program using an applied history approach across the full range of military aerospace operations during peace and war to improve warfighter capabilities and document institutional development of the DAF to improve organizational effectiveness.
This document has been revised and should be completely reviewed. Changes include addition of United States Space Force specific requirements, additional clarity on commander and historian responsibilities, and updated Command History Report submission dates
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.
| Functional community | Publications | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | 1 | AFI 10-403 |
1 publication in 1 other community depend on this one, which History 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.
If DAFI 84-101 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.
Records in this branch carrying the same series and number — interim changes, guidance memoranda, and unit supplements. A copy stamped with one of these is a different document from the base publication.