The Air Force does plan to reduce ancillary training requirements—training outside an airman’s specialty—to just 90 minutes come Oct. 1. Gen. Michael Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff, claimed last month that the growth in such training was affecting mission accomplishment. A team reviewed 16 courses, paring them down to a 90-minute block instruction program that Air Force manpower and personnel chief, Lt. Gen. Roger Brady says will save each airman an entire workday.
It’s been a full three decades since the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School got a new aircraft, but that streak came to an end when a trio of A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft flew in from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., to their new home at Edwards Air…