CMSAF James Roy said training is the one thing that keeps him up at night. “This one concerns me the most,” said Roy Wednesday during AFA’s Air & Space Conference in National Harbor, Md. As DOD works through efficiency initiatives and goes through reducing its budget, he explained, the tendency will be “to eliminate some of our training.” Roy maintained, “We are risking our future if we do that.” It’s vital the Air Force remains focused on both initial training as well as upgrade training, he said.
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack planes in the Middle East are flying with fresh modifications as the Air Force looks to make the plane more versatile amid America’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports and a tenuous ceasefire in the U.S. air war against Iran.