Air Force student pilots had their first F-22 training flights out of Joint Base Langley-Eustis earlier this month, the culmination of four years of work transferring the F-22 schoolhouse to the Virginia base from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.
Warfighter Training
Aeromedical evacuation Airmen are thinking outside the box as they prepare to face more casualties, unstable communications and difficult moral choices in a near-peer fight.
Cleaning trash off a training range may sound like a dull task—but not if the trash is highly explosive. Airmen with the 775th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Flight deal with such trash on a regular basis at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), an ...
Earlier this spring, the 388th Fighter Wing proved just 12 Airmen can operate an F-35 contingency location, refueling and rearming the fighters at spots across Georgia and South Carolina. The demonstration, part of exercise Agile Flag 23-1, marks yet another proof of concept for the ...
Speaking at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony June 1, President Joe Biden urged the 921 graduates in the class of 2023 “to keep us at the forefront of air and space dominance.” To do so, Biden added, the newly-commission Air Force and Space Force officers ...
Whether it’s adding on-orbit capabilities or new forms of simulation, the Space Force wants to get its training beyond the classrooms and PowerPoint slides, its chief trainer said May 10. How the Space Force goes about preparing Guardians has changed significantly even within the past few ...
The Air Force made little progress in closing its pilot shortage in fiscal 2022, Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin wrote in testimony delivered to Congress this week. And issues with training aircraft are slowing down the production of new pilots, he told lawmakers.
Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile April 19, the first such test since Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced he was “suspending” his country’s participation in the New START treaty and the U.S. and Russia stopped ...
The workshop equipped officer candidates with a practical leadership model they could apply immediately and carry with them throughout their careers.