The Air Force does plan to reduce ancillary training requirements—training outside an airman’s specialty—to just 90 minutes come Oct. 1. Gen. Michael Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff, claimed last month that the growth in such training was affecting mission accomplishment. A team reviewed 16 courses, paring them down to a 90-minute block instruction program that Air Force manpower and personnel chief, Lt. Gen. Roger Brady says will save each airman an entire workday.
Former AFCENT Commander Reflects on Lessons of Epic Fury
Sept. 13, 2026
Operation Epic Fury marked the U.S. military's largest air campaign in a generation, with strikes on 13,000 targets in Iran before the first in a series of shaky ceasefires began in April. Now, even as hostilities continue to flare up, Lt. Gen. Derek C. France sees several clear lessons that…
