Air Education and Training Command
The Air Education and Training Command ( AETC ) is considered as one of ten major commands of the United States Air Force (USAF ) is responsible for education and training of the airmen. The headquarters is located at the Randolph Air Force Base in Texas; Commander 's 2013 General Robin Rand since October 10
All new USAF members begin their careers at the AETC: A six -week basic training takes place at Lackland AFB in Texas. This is followed by technical and / or flight training with training aircraft. Also for the health and safety and training of USAF members the AETC is responsible.
If the Air Force is a new aircraft in service (as with the F -22 took place in early 2005 ), the future pilots and technicians initially trained at AETC it until the various units of the new model are ready to use.
For AETC include the
- 2nd Air Force, headquartered at Keesler AFB, Mississippi
- 19th Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas
- The Air Force Recruiting Service, with offices in many U.S. states to recruit new members
- And the Air University, Maxwell AFB (now the Maxwell - Gunter Air Force Base ), Alabama for the further training of soldiers and officers.
The staff of the AETC was the end of September 2005, approximately 62,600 soldiers, plus 14,800 civilian employees and 8,000 reservists.
The equipment includes around 1,250 aircraft of different types, most of them (about 900) are training aircraft. There are also around 230 combat aircraft (F -15, F -16, F -22 ), 60 transport aircraft (C -21, C -5, C-17, C -130), as well as some tanker aircraft (KC -135 ), machinery for special Operations (C -130 variants ) and helicopters ( UH -1, MH -53, HH -60).
History
Mid- 1922 focused the United States Army Air Service be previously scattered place -find flight training at two airfields in San Antonio, Texas. There was on 16 August 1926, the Air Corps Training Center on January 23, 1942, the Air Corps Flying Training Command was established and renamed in March 1942 in the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, in turn, from July 31, 1943 Army Air Forces Training Command said. Since July 1, 1946 existed as a successor to the Air Training Command ( ATC), which eventually became today's Air Education and Training Command ( AETC ) on 1 July 1993.