Instructors with the 318th Training Squadron at the Inter-American Air Forces Academy at JBSA-Lackland, Tex., recently acquired a fully functional UH-1H Huey helicopter from the Army for use in training rotary-wing maintainers from Latin American partner militaries, announced school officials. Since more of these Latin American militaries are incorporating the more advanced Huey II, the academy is also working to acquire a UH-1N in the near future, according to an Oct. 14 Lackland release. Together with parts from the UH-1H, academy officials aim to use components from the UH-1N to create a Huey II maintenance trainer, states the release. “We try to modernize to keep up with 21st Century technologies, and the demand and requirements of our Latin American partners,” said Maj. Manuel Sotelo, 318th TRS maintenance officer. “With the proper equipment, training, and personnel, you can take parts from the H and N models to make a Huey II” for much less cost than acquiring a new Huey II, he added. (Lackland report by Mike Joseph)
More USAF ‘Operational Imperatives’ Likely Coming
Aug. 11, 2022
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall distilled the top fighting priorities of the Air Force and Space Force into seven “operational imperatives” chiefly as a mechanism to identify the spending transitions needed in the fiscal 2023 budget. But they are likely to persist, and more—on electronic warfare, cyber, and munitions—may be…