US Air Force advances plan to shift air personnel training
A pilot with the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron prepares for flight in support of Exercise Bamboo Eagle. (Photo: USAF)
The US Air Force intends to better prepare its personnel to operate alongside autonomous capabilities and cutting-edge systems.
The US Air Force (USAF) has been progressing with its plans to change its military training to better instruct its personnel for future warfare. The service intends to prepare its personnel to operate cutting-edge systems and technologies as well as be deployed in human-machine teaming.
“We need to make sure human capital, our air personnel have the right skills to do that, and we are putting those air personnel in the right squadrons or at the tactical edge if it is required,” claimed Gen. David W. Allvin, chief of staff of the USAF.
Speaking in a recent webinar conducted by the
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