Air Force Reserve Command’s 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Miss., has received the second new longer-fuselaged C-130J Hercules delivered to the Air Force so far in 2006. (It also took delivery of the first J for 2006, last month.) Maj. Gen. Martin Mazick, who is soon to be commander of AFRC’s 22nd Air Force, flew the aircraft from the Lockheed Martin facility at Marietta, Ga. This new J will go to the 403rd Wing’s 815th Airlift Squadron.
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,…