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Cadet flight training was reduced in 1940 to seven months of training [2]: 566 and only 200 flight hours to meet a potential demand for military pilots. From 30 June 1940 to 30 June 1941 the US Army Air Corps tripled in size from 51,165 men (19.1% of the Army's total strength) to 152,125 men (10.4% of the Army's total strength).
In a functional arrangement which placed basic military and aviation mechanic training under one command and remaining specialties under another, the first district included Scott Field, Lowry Field, and Fort Logan; the second district was composed of Chanute Field, Keesler Field, Sheppard Field, and Jefferson Barracks.
Air University's professional military education schools prepare students from the Air Force, its sister services and both NATO and other U.S.-allied nations as they progress through their careers. Emphasis in these programs includes leadership, military doctrine and air power. The three primary PME schools are:
Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
A military school teaches children of various ages (elementary school, middle school or high school) in a military environment which includes training in military aspects, such as drill. Many military schools are also boarding schools, and others are simply magnet schools in a larger school system.
Lenoir County Military School (NC) Linsly Military Institute (WV) Linton Hall Military School (VA) Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (NJ) Livingston Military Academy (AL) Lodwick Aviation Military Academy (FL) Long Beach Military Academy (CA) Los Angeles Military Academy (CA) Los Ceritos Military Academy (CA) Louisiana Military Academy (LA)
Incorporated into some army aviation schools is a research and development department which is tasked with devising improvements of the aircraft and the weapons, testing and preparing them for new roles and carrying out tactical and logistical research aiming at improving and developing the efficiency and concepts under which the various army aviation components are supposed to fulfil their tasks
Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland. The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was a flight training program (1938–1944) sponsored by the United States government with the stated purpose of increasing the number of civilian pilots, though having a clear impact on military preparedness.