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Mission: Produce next-generation aviators for America and its Allies
 
Vision: Set the benchmark in aviation training through dynamic and innovative training 

 

19th Air Force is responsible for the training of more than 30,000 U.S. and allied students annually in numerous specialties ranging from aircrews, remotely piloted aircraft crews, air battle managers, weapons directors, Air Force Academy Airmanship programs, and survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE) training. They execute operational-level command and control of all formal aircrew flying training missions within Air Education and Training Command and provide Airmen with a 5th generation, cross-domain warrior mindset to the Combat Air Forces, Mobility Air Forces, and Special Operations Air Forces to sustain the combat capability of the United States Air Force.

 



    • Luke AFB Airmen volunteer to pack food boxes at food bank

      Airman 1st Class Kenneth McKenzie, 308th Aircraft Maintenance Unit crew chief, assembles a box April 18, 2020, at St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix. Airmen helped pack 1,440 boxes with emergency food supplies for community members. While volunteering, Airmen practiced social distancing to

    • First female pilot of Niger trains at LRAFB

      Capt. Ouma Laouali, the first female pilot in the Nigerien air force, recently accomplished the next step in her pilot career April 22, 2020, by completing her training to become a C-130 Hercules pilot in the C-130 Formal Training Unit’s six-month international pilot training program here at Little

    • 19th Air Force Change of Command