USAF Weapons School

We do that work for almost every branch of the military, every branch of the military, quite frankly.

As part of that work, we were asked to look at some interesting challenges for the Air Force Fighter Weapons School.

That's the Air Force's version of Top Gun.

And the problem that that sort of addresses today is if you go back to the early part of the 20th century, warfighting has changed significantly in ways that have had a major impact on the psychological, neurological, and physiological health of veterans.

Went to the Strike Eagle, was a backseater, weapons systems officer.

I ended up going to Air Force Weapons School, just like Top Gun, but for the Air Force.

Spent another 17 years doing that before my back and my neck said it was time to call quits.

So I did 25 years active duty between all of that.

I said, what do you want me to talk about? She's like, I don't know.

We kind of heard you speak a little bit at the weapons school.

We want to hear your story.

I'm like, here we go.

Enduro Fury? Yeah.

Yeah, did see that.

And funny enough, this past Wednesday, we had the Senior Vice President of Androids, Air Dominance and Strike, come out and speak at the weapons school.

And it was fantastic.

For the Air Force, what's, what's the, the, the pinnacle as a pilot that you're striving to get to?

The, well, it's the Fighter Weapons School.

Okay.

Or now the Weapons School, because they have it for not just fighter aircraft, but it b- started with fighters, and then it became the Weapons School, and not just for pilots anymore.

It's for, um, uh, intel officers.

There's a weapons school for all sorts of different, uh, f- career fields now, but it is the Weapons School.

Um, and TOPGUN was kind of a spinoff actually of the Air Force Weapons School, and the Weapons School is, I mean, it's a long course.

Uh, it's, the Air Force one is probably, I'm guessing now, but it's three or four times longer than the Navy TOPGUN school.

MOTS goes to the further end.

I'd say in terms of the event designs, it's a little bit more like the USAFA Weapons School.

USAFA Weapons School is much longer and has a period, at WSINT is what it's called, the integration period, that is kinda where the majority of the flying at WTI, which is the course, Weapons and Tactics Instructor course, that is, uh, run twice a year by MOTS.

So much more on integrating a ground maneuver element with an assault support element with attack air element built.

Large multi-day mission sets, rolling campaigns in some to exercise the full connective tissue of the MAGTF, right? And show the instructor cadre, expose them and also show them what right looks like in that context.