No other installations are in the running to host the schoolhouse.
The Air Force plans to start training new pilots to fly the OA-1K armed overwatch planes in fall 2025.
The Air Force is downsizing its special operations gunship fleet from 37 to 30 airframes.
This is the first time the Rapid Dragon "bomb bay in a box" system was tested outside the United States.
It’s a “significant change to how we traditionally deploy support functions,” AFSOC spokesperson Capt. Savannah Stephens said.
“It does have strategic implications, but I think that’s all to the positive,” Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. Jim Slife said.
A spike in engine torque can destabilize the Osprey after just one-millionth of a second.
The Osprey has sat among the ferns and salamanders of the High North since Aug. 12.
Air Force Special Operations Command has begun investigating what is causing the clutches in the aircraft to slip.
The female airman faces about another year of advanced skills training before she is assigned to an operational unit.
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