Story by Senior Airman Kailee Reynolds | 47th Flying Training Wing | 10.11.2024
Seventeen U.S. Air Force officers were awarded the coveted silver wings as a symbol of their hard work and training during a graduation ceremony held Oct. 11, 2024. Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) is a training program that helps prepare prospective military pilots. Upon completion of the program, graduates earn their silver wings as Air Force aviators....
Story by Senior Airman David Phaff | 47th Flying Training Wing | 02.22.2023
LAUGHLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Laughlin graduated the first female Lebanese fighter pilot from its undergraduate pilot training program Feb. 3, 2023. Lebanese Air Force 2nd Lt. Jana Sader finished her training and will return home to fly the A-29 Super Tucano, a light attack aircraft. The U.S. Air Force and Air Education and Training Command train thousands of students from countries all......
Story by John Ingle | 82nd Training Wing | 02.07.2022
Training was suspended on Feb. 2, 2022, here when the system hit the region with plummeting temperatures and freezing precipitation. The amount of ice and snow that accumulated over the next couple days resulted in the commander, Brig. Gen. Lyle K. Drew, to close the installation Feb. 3-4, with the exception of mission-essential personnel....
Story by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle | 167th Airlift Wing, West Virginia Air National Guard | 08.02.2020
Last year, the 167th Airlift Squadron sent 2nd Lt. Max Vickerman to UPT at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, and he returned in July with three top honors in his graduating class....
Story by Airman 1st Class OctaviusOctavius Thompson | 71st Flying Training Wing | 08.07.2019
Pilot training is constantly changing to ensure students have an environment where they not only learn to fly, but to adapt and quickly out-think their enemies. With senior leadership making innovation a priority, the Air Force has changed how Airmen are trained and how they become proficient at their jobs. This in turn has changed the way the Air Force develops pilots and what pilot......
Story by Airman Hannah Bean | 14th Flying Training Wing | 06.13.2019
Get ready for food, fun and fireworks at the upcoming BLAZE Fest along Lockhart and Shumake Streets July 3 on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi....
Story by John Ingle | 82nd Training Wing | 03.15.2019
The 77th meeting of the ENJJPT Steering Committee, which is the governing body of the world’s only internationally manned and operated pilot training program, was held at Sheppard AFB March 11-15 to give representatives from partner nations an opportunity to discuss the physical and financial health of the 55-week long program....
Story by Daniel Hawkins | Air Education and Training Command | 03.13.2019
Beginning May 31, 2019, flying training wings across Air Education and Training Command will formally begin integrating innovations from Pilot Training Next into the undergraduate pilot training curriculum,19th Air Force officials announced at the PTN Technology Expo held here March 12-13. Taking lessons learned and data derived from technology use during PTN, the idea is to blend those......
