Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The T-6 Airborne Controller Course was held at Luke Air Force Base from May until 15 August 1953, graduating 51. [ 1 ] After the UN landings at Inchon in late September, the squadron (nicknamed "Mosquitoes"), directed air strikes against retreating enemy troops ahead of the advancing UN lines and operated as the eyes of UN ground forces.
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1970s.
The United States Air Force Combat Control Teams, singular Combat Controller (CCT) (AFSC 1Z2X1), are an elite special operations force (specifically known as "special tactics operators") who specialize in all aspects of air-ground communication, as well as air traffic control, fire support (including rotary and fixed-wing close air support), and command, control, and communications in covert ...
Joint Terminal Attack Controller Qualification Course – Four week course at Nellis AFB, Nevada where attendees qualify as JTACs. Air Force Special Tactics TACP Advance Skills Course – 12 week course put on by the Special Tactics Training Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla. where ST TACPO learn and enhance necessary skills required to operate ...
The standard Weapons Director Badge is issued upon completion of basic weapons director or air battle manager command and control training. Upgrades to Senior Weapons Director and Master Weapons Director occur based on experience and years of service in the Air Force.
The group consists of one air control networks squadron, an operations support squadron, one geographically separated training squadron, and three geographically separated air control squadrons. [1] It is located at Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City in Oklahoma.
The Model 3000/T-6 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with enclosed tandem seating for two. It is powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68 turboprop engine in tractor configuration with an aluminum, 97-inch (8.1 ft; 2.5 m), four-blade, constant-speed, variable pitch, non-reversing, feathering propeller assembly and has retractable tricycle landing gear.
Air battle manager wings. Undergraduate Air Battle Manager Training for active U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard officers is a 6-month course conducted by the 337th Air Control Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.