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Boosting readiness: AETC’s plan to train 1,500 pilots annually

Boosting readiness: AETC’s plan to train 1,500 pilots annually
19th Air Force creates Flying Training Center of Excellence

19th Air Force creates Flying Training Center of Excellence

Benjamin Faske
Forged in resilience: first-ever chapman ultra run tests limits

Forged in resilience: first-ever chapman ultra run tests limits

Benjamin Faske
Accessions, Flying and Technical Training, and Learning Engineering Centers begin initial operations to support Great Power Competition

Accessions, Flying and Technical Training, and Learning Engineering Centers begin initial operations to support Great Power Competition

Dan Hawkins
New commanders attend UPT University

New commanders attend UPT University
Kreuder takes command of Nineteenth Air Force

Kreuder takes command of Nineteenth Air Force

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.

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June 19, 2019
"Grow Your Own" training brings couple to Laughlin’s flightline

Two Laughlin maintainers, a husband and wife team, are both a product of a different facet of the Grow Your Own Program.Grow Your Own is a program which has brought more than 300 maintainers into the 47th Maintenance Directorate throughout its 30 year history.
June 17, 2019
12th FTW history program named AETC's best

The preservation of Air Force history is an important task which allows Airmen to look back in time and remember important milestones and events that were important to the identity of a unit. For the last 13 years, Lane Bourgeois, 12th Flying Training Wing historian at Joint Base San
June 13, 2019
Wills takes command of 19th Air Force overseeing flying training

With the sounds of freedom and flying training as the backdrop, Maj. Gen. Craig D. Wills took the reins of the 19th Air Force from Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty during a change of command ceremony at Hangar 4 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, June 13, 2019.
June 12, 2019
Air Force looks at faster, smarter hardware acquisition and big data to help solve T-6 OBOGS issues

While many of the T-6 On-Board Oxygen Generating Systems issues are markedly better than last year, the Air Force is looking at ways to procure hardware upgrades like the enhanced OBOGS faster and smarter, increase basic science and research, and collect and apply new research data into acquisitions