{"id":139596,"date":"2024-10-14T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aircraft-us-air-force-air-education-training-command\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T16:00:12","slug":"what-aircraft-are-in-the-us-air-force-air-education-training-command-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139596","title":{"rendered":"What Aircraft Are In The US Air Force Air Education &amp; Training Command Fleet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The adage goes, &#8220;<em>You fight as well as you train<\/em>&#8221; and this is something that the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> takes seriously. The US Air Force operates a breathtaking number of training aircraft. Many of the Air Force&#8217;s most advanced             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> are only used for training (including the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027328\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/congress-block-f-22-retirement-what-will-us-air-force-do-with-jets\/\" >32 Block 20 F-22 Raptors the Air Force keeps asking Congress to retire<\/a><\/span>). Despite the massive investments and effort that goes into sustaining the US Air Force,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032862\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-coming-up-short-pilots\/\" >the service struggles to find enough pilots to fly all of its aircraft<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force has far more than just dedicated trainer aircraft at its disposal with everything from the most advanced fighters to Soviet MiG-21s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,567,1382,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-pilot-training","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139599,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139596\/revisions\/139599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}