This article features Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) as the world's largest two-year higher education institution that will be celebrating the awarding of its 300,000th associate degree this fall. Headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, CCAF was founded in 1972 as a means of establishing a real-world credential for training given to enlisted personnel--an associate of applied science degree. With 342,000 students enrolled in 102 Air Force-affiliated schools, CCAF remains the only regionally accredited two-year institution in the U.S. armed services. Last year, the college conferred 16,771 such degrees. CCAF is on the verge of launching its Associate to Baccalaureate Cooperative Program, designed to be a 2+2 articulation agreement with 20 civilian four-year colleges. The program will allow CCAF graduates to transfer 100 percent of their credits into a range of bachelor's programs, including business, computer information systems and emergency and disaster management. Colonel Thomas D. Klincar, CCAF's commandant and the first minority to lead the college, says one of the most useful features of the ABC program is its distance-learning component, which will allow enlisted Air Force personnel to participate even while deployed overseas.