Survival training for select Air Force career fields ramped up in the post-9/11 world, and the Air Force’s new push to extend such training to all airmen means an even greater workload. A new CSAF’s Scope entry from Gen. Michael Moseley focuses on this “emerging requirement,” saying “look for developments” in survival, evasion, resistance, and escape training. Col. Jeffrey White, head of the 336th Training Group at Fairchild AFB, Wash., home to SERE training central, told The Spokesman Review, “We are a growth business in today’s world.”
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.