Sheppard Air Force Base with the 82d
Training Wing and 80th Flying Training Wing is the largest U.S. Air
Force training base and most diversified in Air Education and
Training Command.
The 82d Training Wing and its 61 training
detachments deliver critical training in hundreds of career fields
including aircraft maintenance, civil engineering, aircraft systems,
telecommunications and logistics. Each year, the wing trains about
60,000 Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines as well as our
international partners on three continents.
The 80th Flying
Training Wing hosts the world’s only internationally manned and
managed pilot training program.Operating from the Air Force's
second-busiest airfield, the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training
Program has delivered 7,100 trained combat pilots to our NATO allies
since 1981.
Together, Sheppard’s two training wings continue
to deliver global combat capability. It is located in Wichita Falls,
Texas.
U.S. Air Force video by George
Woodward - August 2018 Edit by USA
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