The Air Force Office of Special Investigations is looking to turn some staff or technical sergeants currently serving in the Air Force Reserve or airmen who plan to leave active duty for the Reserve into special agents. There is school work involved—11 weeks at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, followed by eight weeks at the Air Force Special Investigations Academy, both in Glynco, Ga.
A helicopter instructor pilot failed to take sufficient corrective action in time to fix the mistakes of a student pilot taking off from a slope, resulting in a rollover that caused nearly $11 million in damages to a TH-1H chopper last spring.