According to a report by the News Bulletin, the Air Force has received the last of its planned 454 T-6A Texan II trainers with the one flown in last week by Capt. Matt Wilcoxen and Capt. Nick Woodrow to NAS Pensacola, Fla., home to USAF’s 479th Flying Training Group. The 479th FTG employs T-6As and T-1A Jayhawks to train Combat Systems Officers, now training in new facilities at Pensacola. The unit now has 22 Texans, according to the newspaper.
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…