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.
New approaches to testing Space Force equipment are speeding up delivery to operators, but the service needs more testers and perhaps its own space-focused test center, officials said April 1. Those are key pieces of the fledgling force’s testing methods and future moves that will keep new technology flowing into…