Members of the 23rd Operations Support Squadron at Moody AFB, Ga., recently hosted the first class of HC-130 rescue aircrews in the unit’s C-130 flight simulator. This simulator can accommodate an entire HC-130 crew and presents these pilots, flight engineers, navigators, and communications specialists with stressing scenarios that they may encounter on a mission, but that cannot be replicated in actual training flights. “The simulation facility helps prepare the crew for events that could happen in a real-world scenario,” said SSgt. Ricky Lamm, flight engineer with Moody’s 71st Rescue Squadron. The simulator, which arrived at Moody in 2009, is part of the weeklong HC-130 training course that also includes classroom activities. (Moody report by A1C Nicholas Benroth)
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
