In the old days, one of the ways to do so was the use of dedicated \"Red Air\" squadrons, with older, less capable aircraft flown by pilots specially-trained in flying and fighting like their Soviet-bloc counterparts.MIKE YEOAsia Pacific Defence Reporter...
Tyndall Air Force Base hosted biannual exercise Combat Hammer and Combat Archer respectively during two-week-long Weapon System Evaluation Program-East 23.01 to provide squadrons from across the Department of the Air Force a multi-platform training envir
A flight of Aggressor F-15 Eagles and F-16 Fighting Falcons fly in formation over the Nevada Test and Training Ranges on 5 June, 2008. The jets are assigned to the 64th and 65th Aggressor squadrons at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The Aggressor mission is to prepare the com...
In 1962 he was assigned to the Aerospace Research Test Pilots School at Edwards for training as an astronaut candidate for Project Gemini. Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Smith, United States Air Force After the NF-104A project was canceled, Lieutenant Colonel Smith volunteered for combat duty in ...
Rather than taking a piecemeal approach to deployment -- in which people are crowdsourced across wings for any particular mission -- the service will now send entire, coherent squadrons that have spent time training together into operations. The idea is not......
the traditional retort —“You’re in the military and you will do as ordered.” However, I soon learned that the three Air Force combat security police squadrons preceding the 823rd were made up of virtually all volunteers, unlike our squadron, comprised of a certain number such as myself...
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The newly graduated officers will fill critical C2 billets in AOCs, air operations groups, air support squadrons, training squadrons, and other air component staffs across the USAF as well as the National Space Defense Center and USSF. In each class, there are students whose perfo...
The Swiss Air Force (German language: Schweizer Luftwaffe; French; Italian language: Forze aeree svizzere Romansh language Aviatica militara svizra) is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces, established on 31 July 1914 as part of the army and in Oc
The nine major commands of the Air Force are the Air Combat Command, which is responsible for all combat aircraft based in the continental United States; Air Force Materiel Command; Air Force Reserve Command; Air Education and Training Command; Air Force Space Command; Air Mobility Command; Air...