History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942-2002

Thomas A Manning, U.S. Government Printing Office

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AirEducationofHistory and CommandTraining 1942-2002 % I IV-'IHISTORY OF COMMANDTRAININGANDEDUCATIONAIR 1942-2002 ManningA.Thomas HistorianCommand AshcroftBruce A.Dr H. EmmonsRichard Ann K. Hussey L. MasonJosephDr ResearchHistory andofOffice CommandTrainingandEducationAirHeadquarters, TexasForce Base,AirRandolph 2005FOREWORD traininghas delivered unrivaled Air and SpaceEducation and Training CommandFor over sixty years, Air Force. Weand crucial to the future ofour Aircontinues to be diverse, dynamicand education. The mission was and force, training the force and educating the force.for tomorrow, by recruiting thedevelop America's Airmen today... happen."extraordinary professionals to "make itreality is huge and demandsThe challenge to make this a warriors whomotivated, uniquely talented, and totally dedicatedin AETC with highlyFortunately, we are blessed every day.accept this challenge constantlywith its ever-changing demands and threats, we will bedynamic world we confront today,In the requireAir Force's needs and requirements. This willto adapt our training and education to meet therequired the recognized world center of excellence forthinking and flexible approaches to ensure we remaininnovative training and education. World War II,how our predecessors responded to the challenges ofThis history of AETC teaches us as well as the day-to-War operations, including the Global War on Terror,Korea, Vietnam, and the many post-Cold this book highlight significantmethods and technology in peacetime. The pages ofday development of training flying training, and education in AETC.recruiting and military training, technical training,events in the evolution of reference book, but also documents theto present this history, which serves not only as aIt gives me great pleasure h»«r«iaBmed q>w the first sixty years of the command.valuable lessons we IllIVPREFACE command's intelligence shopsuch a long span Mcdriff from theA work of this scope, covering helped inimeasurabh \\ith the computer scanning ofyears, can be done only with the help of a greatof work.hisior\ rests squarely on the photographs and artmany people. This foundational work of our predecessors in the Air new photos for the second eiluion wereCommand history office in TheEducation and Training collection ofmore easily obtained from ourtheir seminal book, the History of Air Training phott)graphs. digital photographs from the last decadeI'J4}-I993. Former members of theCommand. histories, official \w ForceDr Karl D. of the command's andhistory office. CMSgt Robert J. Davis and photos.Preuss. wrote passages and contributed ideas in the Others, notably Mrearly stages of that undertaking. trivialUpdating the eariier edition was not aR. Benson. Dr Dennis F. Casey. Mr LloydLawrence Mason and S.Sgt Oscar M. VegaEnnels. Mr Jay E. matter. Dr Joseph L.H. Cornett. Jr.. Mr Jerome A. spent many weeks recovering and reformatting theHines. Dr Dillard Hunley. Mr David W. Shurcliffe.J. files and photos that comprisedWarren A. Trest. made a outdated computerMr Edgar P. Sneed. and Mr old materialthe earlier edition. In some instances, thereal contribution through the monographs and special or updated in this edition.while part of the .AETC history has been alteredstudies they prepared program. Mrs Edith J. Taylor spent hours looking at members of the AETC histor) officelocating missing pieces to the Allreels of microfilm and extensivelycontributed to this edition. Dr Masonpuzzle in dusty storage boxes. Last but not least. Ms used research of historians .Ann K. Hussey. Drand Mr Dick J. Burkard took on thePatricia E. Parrish write the new material.book. Ashcrofi. and Mr Emmons tothe Herculean task of laying out the entire Thomas A. Manning. AETC Command Historian,countless hours of overtime, the first MrWithout their manuscript.table. edited the entireedition would ne\'er ha\e left the drafting history was therefore ahistory office, This sixtieth anniversaryCurrent members of the AETC collaborative effort by the staff of the History andAshcroft and Mr Richard H. Emmons,Dr Bruce A. With help of all those mentionedfirst edition. Research Office. thewrote substantial sections of the errors ofabove, we did our best to get it right. Any are ours alone.assisted in a \ariety ot fact or interpretationA host of other people v\ays. Joe Lopez and Ms Lydia Rodriguez fromMr Training Command's manpowerAir Education and questionspro\ ided the answers to innumerableoffice and the command'sabout unit designations Lealherwuod. aorganizational structure. Mrs Susie cisil engineering staff, helped fillmember of the AETCseveral gaps in the appendix dealing with Ollie Barker, from the logistics staff,bases, and Mr about trainerwas able to resolve our questions aircraft. the right photograph was a continuingFinding photographs in the firstchallenge. For the man\ old sources,we received help from scores ofedition, Anfonio Express-News, to theranging from the San historicalpublic library in Fort Worth. Texas, to the Raton. Ilorida. to the Eighth Airsociety in Boca Louisiana.Force history office at Barksdale AFB, also indebted to the National Archives andWe are Air and SpaceRecords Administration, the Museum, and the Department of Defense Still Media their extensive collections ofRecords Center for aviation photos. Most of all the command's history came up with the photos v\eoffices repeatedly Flyingneeded. Similady, the folks in the 12th Wing's media center at Randolph AFB wereTraining lunuhers of prints andhelpful in copying untokl con\erting slides into photographs. SSgt Larry L.VIPrologue ORIGINS and Traniin<;Air Education Command (AETC) traces its lineage 1942. v\hen the Warback to 23 January actnaicdDepartment constituted and Corps Flying Trainnigthe Army Air this \olumeCommand. The purpose of and commemorate the firstis to recount history, but the60 years of AETC of aviation training in the Unitedhistory much earlier. On SStates military began October 1909. Wilbur Wright began Frank P. Lahminstructing Lieutenants Benjamin D. Foulois (second fromWith his <;iouiid i:re«. Lt SignalFrederic E. Humphreys onand at Fort Samfront of theW right Type B airplaneright) stands in which the ArmyCorps Airplane No. I, frommo\ed flyin}; operationsHouston, Texas. The Army had Wrightrecently purchased from thehad Houston for the winter. OnMars land, to Fort SamCollege Park, two men recei\edbrothers. Each of the byhis First solo llighl, and2 March 19H), Foulois made beforelittle over three hours traininga he had made 61 practice llights.September October 1909.soloing on 26 FLYING TRAINING the course ofuntil the outbreak of World W;u- 1. Duringremained on this small scaleFlyinii training in the Army offeredprivate and state universitiesentered Hying cadet training. Eightuar. appro\imatel> 23.000 \olunteersthat because, in .-^pril 1917training were more of a problemtraining. Primary and advancedpretlight (ground school) fields--officers and only three flyingArmy had fewer than 100 flyingUnited States entered the war. thewhen the take a long time to con-Diego. California. Because it wouldEssington. Pennsylvania: and SanMineola. New York; of soprovided Hying bases during the summer 1917United States. Canadaadequate training facilities in thestruct Christmas US training bases wereprimary tlving training. By 15American cadets could beginthat several hundred war. cadets16 in Europe b\ the end ot the Hereto 27 in the United States andavailable, a number expanded 40-.^() hours air. usualls in a Curtiss JN-4.pilot training, including in theto eight weeks of primar\underwent six who begun preflightOf the 23.000 had during World War I. oxer 1 1.000training wings and werereceived their weekscommissioned before entering four training either in the Unitedof advanced States or Europe. Bombing instruction primarily at Ellington Field.occurred among—U ^ -^^mB Texas. Taliaferro Field. Texas,t^;^'^ jBM| '~**^ locations, provided observation'"h^"'P^ JSlKr^^^rPTrr^.,.^- (lighter) coursestraining, while pursuit were restricted to France because ol a lack in the Unitedof necessary equipment theStates. Brooks Field. Texas, contained instructor's school. Because thejirincipalI War I only lorUnited States was in World soand a half antl entered ita vear Ie\as, learnedaviation cadets at Kellv Field.In World War I, about 1.000 of theunprepared, only completing.IN-4 ".lennv." Alterto n\ the hi-v\ing ( urtiss war11.000 aviators trained during the pursuit instructiongraduates went to France fortraining, involved in operationswere actually combat units.before reporting to their Most of theseagainst the enemy. artilleryoperations consisted of aircraft, of which 462 were491 "kills" of CiermanAmerican annien conluniedobservation or air-to-air combat, balloons as awere .^7 confirmed losses of enemyaces. In addition, therepilots officially classified ascredited to 63PROLOGUE War on balance itduring World 1.of pilot trainingwere some criticismsaction. Although thereresult of American achievement.program was no meanappears that the pilot training aircontlict. the Army'sexperience of thatWar I. and despite thethe end of Worlddemobili/^ation followedRapid expansion programa five-yearalthough there wasthe interwar period,small during most ofarm remained quite duringhiatus in trainingMeanwhile-after aof airpower advocates.outspoken agitation1926 in response to theafter for training pilots inUnited States usedof 27 flying fields theField. Texas, was oneBrooks generally(lying conditions weresouthern states, wherefields were in theWorld War I. Most year round.good all Carlstrom Field. Florida, inMarch Field. California, andresumed on a small scale at|y|9-primary pilot instruction Oklahoma,at Post Field, Fort Sill.included the Observation Schooltraining at that timeJanuary 1920. Advanced administrative difficulties ofField. Texas. However, thebombardnieni instruction at Kellyboth pursuit antland decision in 1921-1922locations prompted aat such widely separated20