The 34th annual convention of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. opened this week in Orlando, Fla. Still living are an estimated 200 members of the nearly 1,000 Army Air Force pilots who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Base as fighter pilots in the Second World War.
Trainees in Basic Military Training and technical school no longer have the option to try alternate PT drills if they fail an initial assessment, according to a policy change the Air Force made in April. The move is part of a larger shift out of the classroom and into hands-on,…