A Ghana air force delegation, led by Col. Mike Kwame Appiah-Agyekum, visited Ramstein AB, Germany, for a first-hand look at how the Air Force trains its enlisted personnel. During the three-day visit in late September, Appiah-Agyekum, GAF director of administration, toured the First Term Airmen Center, the Kisling Noncommissioned Officer Academy, and Airmen Leadership School, states a Sept. 29 Ramstein release. The GAF plans to open its own enlisted academy, modeled on the Air Force’s enlisted professional military education set-up, to educate Ghanaian airmen as well as those from air forces across sub-Sahara Africa, states the release. “If we don’t give our [enlisted airmen] quality, professional training, we’ll be left behind,” said Appiah-Agyekum. The new academy “will enhance our collaborative relationships in all of West Africa,” he said. This visit is one of the many partnership-building activities by US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa with African air arms. (Ramstein report by MSgt. Norris Agnew)
The advanced F-47 sixth-generation fighter remains on track to fly in the next two years, the senior Air Force acquisition officer overseeing the program said Feb. 25, as the service continues on its ambitious schedule to debut the air superiority-focused fighter by 2028—only three years after the contract was awarded…
