The Air Force wants to increase the flow of trained battlefield airmen like joint terminal attack controllers to the fight, since they are so vital to the success of operations. However, says Gen. Stephen Lorenz, head of Air Education and Training Command, the current training regiment is washing out a high percentage of these students, perhaps too many. “Our attrition rate in those courses is like 86 percent,” Lorenz told attendees Feb. 19 at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando. Accordingly, AETC officials are looking at what can be done to increase the number of students who make it through successfully. “Is the course set up to graduate people or is it set up to eliminate people?” Lorenz asked. That’s what’s being pondered, he said.
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…