Capt. LeeAnn Roberts is a military assistance training team leader at Al Kasik Training Base in Iraq, where she is the only woman among 8,000 personnel. She tells USAF journalist SrA. Mark Woodbury that the Iraqi recruits were hesitant at first to take instruction from a woman, but that changed when they realized she was an expert at her job, teaching policing and military skills. The first group she trained called her “my sister,” and it has stuck from group to group. She served in the Army for 12 years before making the leap from green to blue.
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
