As part of this training, “an American student pilot may have a Belgian instructor pilot, a Dutch flight commander, a Turkish section commander, an Italian operations office, and a German squadron commander.”
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Happy 77th birthday to NATO— an org that looms large in far North Texas!
Here in Wichita Falls, NATO pilots have trained at Sheppard AFB since 1981. The Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program (ENJJPT) brings together pilots from 14 NATO nations.
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