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Air Force

Air Force Training Command Focused On Trainer Jet Replacement Maintenance Proposals, Addressing Pilot Shortage

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

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Air Force Training Command Focused On Trainer Jet Replacement Maintenance Proposals, Addressing Pilot Shortage

Commander of the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The Air Force’s training command is building on its capacity to address the service’s pilot shortage while focusing on the request for maintenance development phase of a program to replace its 350 outdated trainer jets. Commander of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson addressed the media at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Wednesday, and pointed to the implementation of higher quality live, virtual, constructive (LVC) training simulators as…

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