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Stearman Kaydet

Instructor with a cadet beside a PT-17 during Basic Flight Instruction Training at Southern Field, Georgia, 1943.

Stearman Kaydet

Dave Brown takes off in his PT-17 Stearman biplane before performing aerobatics at the Flying Circus Aerodrome and Airshow in Bealeton, Va., Jul. 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)

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Squadrons 'beating heart' of Air Force

108th Bombardment Squadron during the Korean War activation formation 1951 (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Squadrons 'beating heart' of Air Force

"Wolfpack" aviators of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing carry their Commanding Officer, Colonel Robin Olds, following his return from his last combat mission over North Vietnam, on 23 September 1967. This mission was his hundredth "official" combat mission, but his actual combat mission total for his tour was 152. Olds led the 8th TFW Wolfpack from September 1966 through September 1967, as it amassed 24 MiG victories, the greatest aerial combat record of an F-4 Wing in the Vietnam war. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Squadrons 'beating heart' of Air Force

Francis S. Gabreski (left) congratulates another World War II and Korean War ace, Maj. William T. Whisner (center). On the right is Lt. Col. George Jones, a MiG ace with 6.5 kills. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Squadrons 'beating heart' of Air Force

Airman gather together for "mail call" on the flight line during the Korean War. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Closing the Gap

Staff Sgt. Jonathan Dantuma and Airman 1st Class Raeqwon Brown, aircraft electrical and environmental maintainers with the 60th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, work on the flightline at Travis Air Force Base, California, servicing C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft, Mar. 22, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)

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Closing the Gap

A crew chief deployed from the 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 20th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Barksdale Air Force Base, La., starts his work on a B-52 Stratofortress that landed minutes before at RAF Fairford, England, March 28, 2019. The 20th AMU is attached to the 20th Bomb Squadron’s B-52s, and the unit maintains those B-52s anywhere they deploy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Philip Bryant)

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Closing the Gap

Airman Toritseju Popo, 2nd Maintenance Squadron phase inspection crew chief, looks over a recently washed B-52 Stratofortress at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Feb. 9, 2018. The aircraft was looked over multiple times before it was sent to the next stage of the phase inspection process. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Tessa B. Corrick)

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Closing the Gap

Tech. Sgt. Dylan Drake (middle), 372nd Training Squadron Field Training Detachment 5 crew chief instructor, speaks to his students during a crew chief course at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, June 4, 2019. The only two FTDs to train B-52H Stratofortress maintainers are located at Barksdale and Minot Air Force Base, S.D. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tessa B. Corrick)

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Closing the Gap

By the end of 2015, after decades of unpredictable budgets, a period of sequestration, forced personnel reductions and a relentless operations tempo, the Air Force was facing a huge hurdle to achieving its operational readiness goals – a shortage of roughly 4,000 aircraft maintainers across the service.

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Airmen with the 6th Air Refueling Squadron prepare a KC-10 Extender before a mission to conduct a flyover for Maj. Brent Burklo’s funeral, July 16, 2019, at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Burklo was a KC-10 pilot at the 6th ARS who died July 10, 2019, after a two-year battle with cancer. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Joey Swafford)

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Maintaining Success

Airman 1st Class Caitlin Good is a KC-10 Extender crew chief assigned to the 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California has excelled and was waived through the four-month long Maintenance Qualification Training Program and was selected to join the ranks of Flying Crew Chiefs. ( Video/ Pete Ising and J.M. Eddins Jr.)

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190404-F-NA975-0127

Maj. Gen. Steven Basham, director of the Secretary of the Air Force Legislative Liaison Office, hands a note to Gen. David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, during a posture hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

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190404-F-NA975-0032

Gen. David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, checks his statements with his team before a posture hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

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190404-F-NA975-0001

Lt. Col. Joe Wall, deputy chief of the Senate Air Force Liaison Office, salutes a staff vehicle to welcome Gen. David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, before a posture hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

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190403-F-NA975-0015

Maj. Michael Gutierrez, Senate Air Force Liaison Office action officer, and Col. Caroline Miller, chief of the Senate Air Force Liaison Office, corresponds with legislators in preparation for a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

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190403-F-NA975-0041

Maj. Christopher D. Ryan, Senate Air Force Liaison Office action officer, discuss Air Force inforamation with Dan S. Dunham, military legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Deb Fischer from Nebraska, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

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190404-F-NA975-0201

Gen. David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, deliver his opening statements during a posture hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

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181103-F-IP635-1155

Barksdale Airmen position a tow bar onto a B-52 Stratofortress for a parking maneuver during Global Thunder 2019 at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 3, 2018. Global Thunder is an annual U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) exercise designed to provide training opportunities to test and validate command, control and operational procedures. The training is based on a notional scenario developed to drive execution of USSTRATCOM and component forces' ability to support the geographic combatant commands, deter adversaries and, if necessary, employ forces as directed by the President of the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Philip Bryant)

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