Air Education and Training Command’s Laughlin Air Force Base, has received its first of 15 T-38s from Moody AFB, Ga., starting the undergraduate pilot training base in west Texas on its new mission of providing Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals training. Laughlin also will gain about 180 airmen and civilian personnel and expand its instruction facilities to accommodate the eight-week IFF course mission.
A cracked engine part sparked a massive fire that caused shrapnel and burn injuries to an Airman and nearly $15 million in serious damages to a B-1B Lancer bomber last spring. The bomber’s jet engine was running as mechanics at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, were working on its hydraulics…