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.
The Department of the Air Force has identified 50 programs that will make up the core of its contribution to the Pentagon’s joint all-domain command and control effort, branding them part of the “DAF Battle Network,” according to newly-released budget documents. The DAF Battle Network programs span multiple offices and agencies…