USAF Moving Some F-15C Aggressors To Training To Shrink Pilot Shortfall

By Gabe Starosta / April 18, 2013 at 8:21 PM
Air Force officials have green-lighted transitioning a squadron of F-15Cs to a primary training site as part of their fiscal year 2014 budget request in an effort to help close a service-wide shortfall in fighter pilot production. The move is one of the FY-14 budget's few significant force structure recommendations, another of which is the decision to downsize the C-21 executive transport fleet by 11 more aircraft than previously planned. Unlike the FY-13 budgeting process, in which the Air Force...

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