Air Force maintainers weighed in for and against a sweeping new force design that would transform how aircraft mechanics learn their trade and advance through the ranks.
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The Air Force is set on “faithfully executing” President Donald Trump’s executive orders and will continue to teach new recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Air Force Service Pilots, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said Jan. 27, after several days of uproar.
Fixing the Air Force’s chronic combat pilot shortage will require more aircraft in the fleet, more flying hours to squadron operations, and retaining more pilots within Reserve components, according to a new paper from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
Air Force Special Warfare can improve how it teaches candidates teamwork, stress tolerance, and other nontechnical attributes, according to a new RAND report.
The final T-1 at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas left last month for the Boneyard, continuing a steady drawdown of the Air Force’s trainer for “heavies.”
Space Training and Readiness Command boss Maj. Gen. Timothy A. Sejba said he is expanding and improving on the service’s Space Flag environment to prepare Guardians for great power competition.
Space Force leaders are contemplating separating out the service’s boot camp from the Air Force and moving it to a new location.
The Air Force is scaling up the Joint Simulation Environment to enable large-scale mission training possible for F-35 and other combat pilots at bases all over the country and even overseas.
The Air Force’s first new warrant officers in 66 years graduated Dec. 6 at a ceremony at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., the inaugural class of the new Warrant Officer Training School.