It’s a grueling four week course to become an Air Force combat controller, pararescueman, or special reconnaissance operator. As a civilian, you’ll have to complete the initial fitness test to earn a special warfare operator contract. The minimum scores are 40 pushups and 50 situps, each...
From my personal experience, the significant level of training the Air Force affords students at the Weapons School improves us as individuals, not just as professionals. It teaches us to be tactical systems experts, but it also teaches us to be leaders. And that continues as the g...
The main reason for the new SWO Course was the realization that AFW personnel sent to duty with the Army arrive with less experience and training in "combat field skills" than Army personnel of the same rank, age, and time in the service. For example, an AFW sergeant arriving for duty ...
and like any tactical course, there is a phenomenal amount of information to be assimilated through the hours of classroom learning, mission planning, briefs, and debriefs. But not to be underscored in the forging of a weapons officer are the installation of characteristics required of good lead...
, you can do thathere.On this day in 1907,James Maurice Gavinwas born in Brooklyn, New York. Gavin would later be known as “the jumping general” for his role as commander of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II, where he became the only general to notch four combat jumps....