Feb. 12, 2024 Laughlin implements innovative air traffic control procedures for smooth communications Dual local operations enhance Laughlin’s operational efficiency and sets the stage to reach new heights. Team XL is poised to aim higher and achieve an even more ambitious goal of graduating 415 pilots within the 2024 fiscal year. Dual local is a groundbreaking procedure, currently only used at one
Feb. 12, 2024 Team McConnell teams continues augmenting Altus efforts training KC-46 aircrews Beginning at the dawn of the new year, Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 931st Air Refueling Wing (ARW) are now working with the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, the active-duty host unit at McConnell, to ensure KC-46A Pegasus crews are trained and ready at the installation– and nationwide, particularly at
Feb. 12, 2024 Combat Airlifter of the Week: Staff Sgt. Joseph Tarantino Staff Sgt. Jospeh Tarantino, 373rd Training Squadron Detachment 4 aerospace propulsions instructor, is selected as Combat Airlifter of the Week, February 12, 2024.
Feb. 11, 2024 Vance graduates 29 new Air Force aviators Twenty-nine students in Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 24-05 received their wings during a ceremony held Feb. 9 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
Feb. 7, 2024 Laughlin holds Annual Awards Ceremony for XL-ent members The 47th Flying Training Wing (FTW) recognized its top performers of 2023 at an Annual Awards Ceremony Feb. 2, 2024, at Anderson Hall.
Feb. 6, 2024 First graduating USAFA class visits Eglin AFB The first class of the United States Air Force Academy visited the 33rd Fighter Wing on Jan. 26, 2024. During their visit, the Class of 1959 alumni received a mission brief, a tour of the Academic Training Center and viewed an F-35A Lightning II.
Feb. 2, 2024 19th Air Force command team visits Luke AFB The 19th Air Force command team evaluated operations, engaged with Airmen, and discussed strategic directions on building airpower with wing leadership.
Feb. 2, 2024 The Great Texas Airshow returns to JBSA-Randolph April 6-7 The Great Texas Airshow will take place April 6-7 with this year’s theme of "Service in Action." This free event will showcase the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the F-35A Lightning II, the U.S. Air Force Academy Wings of Blue Parachute Team and more. Gates open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. each day.
Feb. 1, 2024 Maxwell welcomes first active-duty flying training unit since 1945 The 908th Airlift Wing has an active-duty associate mission partner on Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama for the first time. Detachment 3 of the 58th Operations Group had an official activation ceremony Jan. 31, 2024, on Maxwell.
Jan. 30, 2024 Pilot training innovation: First successful remote simulator training The first successful remote simulator instruction in Air Force pilot training connected 2nd Lt. Wesley Mills, 47th Student Squadron student pilot at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas with Robert Wayne, 12th Training Squadron simulator instructor here Jan. 22, 2024.Wayne, while sitting at a computer at