At Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, the Thunderbirds fly the 2,000th show in their 23-year history. The team’s Northrop T-38A Talons sport a special paint scheme for America’s bicentennial celebration.
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.
