Air mobility airmen are honing their battlefield skills in increasing numbers at the Air Mobility Warfare Center at Ft. Dix, N.J., where Air Mobility Command focuses its advanced education, training, and testing activities. Disciplines at the school are divided up into five courses—mobility weapons school, mobility operations school, expeditionary operations school, air mobility Battlelab, and the resources directorate. The center opened its doors in May 1994 and has expanded to host 59 courses and 5,000 in-resident students and more than 7,000 distance-learning students each year.
The Trump administration on April 21 nominated Erich Hernandez-Baquero, an executive at Raytheon, to serve as assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration.