How a small Air National Guard base in Arizona became the go-to hub for dozens of nations to train their F-16 pilots is one of the military’s least-told stories.
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As the Department of the Air Force undergoes a sweeping “re-optimization” review focused on its readiness for great power competition, a new research report found the department’s current methods for measuring that readiness have significant gaps, which advanced new simulators and technologies may help close.
As new trainees arrived to their first day at Air Force Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., on Oct. 10, they found themselves in the middle of what OTS Commandant Col. Keolani Bailey described as the school’s biggest change in its 64-year ...
William Tell Fighter Competition returns.
Two months after a surprise thunderstorm grounded nearly all of its T-6 Texan II training aircraft, Vance Air Force Base, Okla., is actually ahead of schedule training undergraduate pilots.
The Air Force wants to move its enlisted education system beyond classrooms and PowerPoint slides, but first it must implement what many civilian schools take for granted: free, campus-wide wireless internet access for students.
Air Force fighter crews, maintainers, and intelligence specialists from Virginia to Hawaii gathered at the Air Dominance Center in Savannah, Ga. from Sept. 11-15 to see who was the best in the air-to-air business.
The first five days of Basic Military Training will change to better educate trainees on sleep hygiene, stress management, nutrition, and physical training, a move which officials hope will better prepare enlisted Airmen and Guardians for the rigors of life in service.
Boeing submitted paperwork to deliver the first T-7A Red Hawk trainer jet to the Air Force on Sept. 12, marking the latest step as the service aims to achieve initial operational capability in 2027.
