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  • Tiger for a day with the 85th Flying Training Squadron

    The 85th Flying Training Squadron (FTS), also known as the ‘Tigers’, hosted a unique, hands-on aviation experience for 25 local children aptly called Tiger for a Day. The fifth of August, 8/5, is special to the Tigers, and this year they got to share the joy with the local community.

  • Laughlin maximizes T-6 operations during surge week

    The 434th and 85th Flying Training Squadrons conducted a T-6 Texan II “Surge Week” Sept. 25-29. Surge week consisted of a large increase in flights that tested new operational concepts while also increasing synchronization with maintenance, all to maximize T-6 training flights.

  • F-15E Strike Eagles visit Laughlin for capabilities briefing

    An F-15E Strike Eagle sits on the flightline at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2020. Two teams of pilots flying the F-15E visited Laughlin from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, to talk with student pilots, first assignment instructor pilots and leaders on the aircrafts’

  • SUPT student soars to commander’s trophy

    Officers from across the country join, for approximately 52 weeks, at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, in hopes to one day, wear the rated wings of a United States Air Force pilot.While successfully graduating from the program is the ultimate goal for these students, a select few have the ability to

  • Laughlin Provides Sonora Flood Relief

    Second Lieutenant Steven Rapphun, 47th Student Squadron student pilot awaiting training, helps remove a flood-damaged refrigerator from a Sonora, Texas, home, Sept. 27, 2018. Laughlin Air Force Base Airmen took leave to travel to Sonora to assist with donations and with flood damage, which was

  • SUPT Class 18-01 set to graduate

    All Laughlin members are invited to attend a graduation ceremony for Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 18-01, at 10 a.m., here, in Anderson Hall, Oct. 27, 2017.