Air Education and Training Command inactivated its 479th Flying Training Group at Moody AFB, Ga., on Thursday. The group has provided advanced fighter training and undergraduate pilot training at Moody for the past eight years, reports A1C Eric Schloeffel. Per BRAC 2005, AETC is consolidating the unit’s aircraft and other assets at other training bases.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.


