MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force said Sunday that a flying instructor and a student pilot from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force were killed when a trainer jet crashed in Alabama.
In recent years, the Air Force's Barrier Analysis Working Groups advocated for and studied the idea of a beard pilot program for Black airmen, given the research. Last week, the service dismantled all of those groups, which were hoping to improve quality-of-life issues for mi...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said the service's maintainers have pulled off "miracles" to keep planes in the air, despite a lack of spare parts, manpower and decades-old aircraft. Here, an F-16 flies in formation with F-35s over Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, ...
The broad effort is known as Pilot Training Transformation, and under it are a series of different efforts. Wills emphasizes that this wasn’t a panel of high-ranking Generals that worked out the plan, it was down to a group of officers of Lieutenant Colonel rank...
Below we have the following ranks for the Nigerian Air Force as well as their different slalary structure all arrange in a descending order for you. The ranking below is from the senior officer to the junior officer show their different salaries. ...
This entirely depends on your job in the Air Force, but as a Computer Programmer I had it pretty easy in the Air Force. Consistent hours in a nice office with good people, for the most part. There were a few managers and higher ranking enlisted personnel that were unpleasant, but they ...
Some foreign media recently released a ranking list of air force strength around the world in 2021, in which the strength of the U.S. air force still ranks first. The ranking shows that the main reason why the US Air Force ranks high is the large number of advanced fighters and the rel...
If the focus is on staffing leaders with a combat identity, rather than support operations, perhaps morespecial tactics officersfrom the Air Force’smost decorated combat communitysince the end of the Vietnam War should be tapped for high-ranking positions. ...
AIR FORCE TRAININGFLIGHT TRAININGNAVAL TRAININGAERIAL WARFAREPILOTSDEFICIENCIESRATINGSMANEUVERSFLIGHT SIMULATORSRANKINGDue to the complex, dynamic and fast-moving nature of the air combat task, performance assessment during air-to-air combat provides many unique measurement problems. A combined analytical and...
“While horrendous hours may be necessary on a combat deployment, ridiculous schedules are not necessary,” said T. Mark McCurley, a retired pilot who commanded a Predator squadron that targeted high-ranking targets, such as Anwar Awlaki, an American-born recruiter for Al Qaeda in Yemen who ...