How Do US Fighter Pilots Train for Aerial Dogfights?

Before discussing how United States fighter pilots train for aerial dogfights, let’s define the word “dogfight” and see how it came to be the word dogfight for air-to-air combat dates back to WWI (1914-1918). At the start of the war, aircraft were only used to observe enemy troop movements, and because of weight restrictions on early aircraft, the thought of arming the planes never occurred until later.