1st Lt. Sarah Fotsch, 47th Flying Training Wing instructor pilot, flies with a student in a T-6 Texan II, Feb. 9 2021. The instructor pilot corps is the heartbeat of Laughlin's mission of developing combat-ready Airmen, leaders, and pilots.
Undergraduate student pilots at Laughlin Air Force Base now have a new first step in their training to become the world's most combat ready pilots: the student success course.
The course incorporates classroom learning and physical training to help prepare their minds and bodies for the year-long training they will soon embark on. It also provides students in upcoming classes a chance to come together as a team in a low-threat environment.
Laughlin's very own Senior Airman Jacqueline Beckett, a 47th Operations Support Squadron radar airfield weather systems (RAWS) electronic technician, won the 2020 RAWS Airman of the year award in the Air Education and Training Command. While working on the Air Force's 6th busiest airfield.
Walking into the main lobby of the aerospace physiology building and seeing the chamber for the first time, I didn't know what to expect. But thinking this is the first place future pilots come to start their training, I was excited to get a chance to experience a taste of their world.
Now in its second year back, The 2020 Lightning Challenge is a week-long competition hosted by the 3rd Air Support Operations Group at Fort Hood, Texas.
Designed to test the Air Force’s Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) specialist, it features a variety of events ranging from obstacle courses to a shooting exercise, a written test, physical training and simulation scenarios and everything in between.
