At Air Education & Training Command, where new pilots get their start, the next wave of flight simulators is continuing.
Air Education & Training Command
The Air Force is placing Air Combat Command in charge of teaching combat tactics to fighter and remotely-piloted aircraft units, according to a May 12 announcement. Beginning this summer, the service will reassign the formal training units for the F-35, F-16, and MQ-9 from Air ...
With the first operational T-7A trainer jet in hand, Air Force leaders are already looking ahead to how the Red Hawk will fit with the service’s plans for sixth-generation aircraft.
Air Education & Training Command received its first T-7A Red Hawk when the long-awaited next-generation jet trainer landed at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph on Dec. 5.
Air Force officials say they're making progress on getting the T-7A Red Hawk trainer on track after years of delays—and now they're even exploring whether they can shift some training duties from the T-6 Texan II to the Red Hawk down the road.
A half-dozen Air Force and Space Force major generals have been nominated for three-star jobs, including new bosses for Air Education and Training Command and Space Forces-Space.
When acting Air Force Secretary Gary A. Ashworth rescinded service-wide “Family Days” last week citing the need to build readiness, he left it up to commanders, directors, and supervisors to decide if they would still permit extra days off. Here’s how Air Force major commands are taking ...
The Air Force is extending PACER FORGE, an exercise meant to prepare trainees for Agile Combat Employment, where Airmen disperse in small teams to small air bases to complicate targeting for adversaries.
The Air Force is set on “faithfully executing” President Donald Trump’s executive orders and will continue to teach new recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Air Force Service Pilots, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said Jan. 27, after several days of uproar.
The Air Force plans to buy four more production-representative T-7 jets for test and delay the first production contract by a year, until fiscal 2026—the latest setback to acquiring USAF's first new trainer in decades.
The Air Force has begun a sweeping overhaul of its education and training programs with the standup of new centers that will be part of the future Airman Development Command that is scheduled to come online next year, service officials said.
The last remaining T-1 Jayhawk at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, took its final flight to the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on July 15. The 99th Flying Training Squadron will train pilots using T-6 and simulator until it gets T-7 Red Hawk in fiscal 2026.