For the first time, members of the Philippine Air Force have been attending Airman Leadership School at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. It’s part of a training process to enable the PAF to create its own formal leadership program. Four instructor/students and the command sergeant majors of the PAF are currently attending an ALS class, with five additional students planned for the future. The new instructors will then write up a curriculum and establish a Philippine airman leadership school in Fiscal 2007. “ALS is helping us develop more and starting innovations that can be adjusted to our system,” said PAF Command Sgt. Maj. Cesar Soloria.
The U.S. conducted a drone strike in Iraq on Dec. 3, as the American troops there continue to be targeted by Iranian-backed militants. The strike took place near Kirkuk as the militants were preparing to attack U.S. troops in northern Iraq, a U.S. official told Air & Space Forces Magazine.…