A T-38 static display on Laughlin Air Force Base. This month in 2004, AETC leaders announced that they had received an infusion of funds to speed up the T-38C Propulsion Modernization Program (PMP). This meant that the 87 FTS would gain their PMP T-38Cs three years earlier than planned. The T-38C was an upgraded version of the T-38As that Laughlin had been flying since the 1960s.