With Iraqis reeling-casualties, desertions, and other effects of the air campaign-the coalition launches its ground campaign, which (supported heavily by airpower) is concluded in just 100 hours.
The Air Force is on track to reach its annual goal of graduating 1,500 new pilots that had proved elusive to this point, one year after the service launched a sweeping overhaul of its undergraduate pilot training program, Air Education and Training Command said Sept. 14.
