The 732nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron—made up of airmen from around the Air Force—at Forward Operating Base Speicher are serving as escorts for truck convoys through the dangerous corridors around Tikrit, Iraq. These escort airmen trained at an intensive Basic Combat Convoy Course at the Army’s Camp Anderson-Peters, Tex., learning ground combat skills and Army small-unit tactics. They qualified with M-4 carbines and M-249 machine guns. Three airmen—a truck commander, driver, and gunner—crew each escort gun truck.
A new Air Force scholarship called Aim High Flight Academy gives high school and college students 15 hours of flight training to give them a leg up if they pursue a career in aviation.