"In March, 13 K-State students were chosen from a highly competitive national-level selection board to attend rated aviation training in the U.S. Air Force after graduation. The students are cadets in the university's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps who will earn commissions as second lieutenants in the United States Air Force before entering formal flight training in 2012. The four rated aviation duty specialties are pilot, combat systems operator, air battle manager and remotely piloted aircraft operator. Kathryn Blair, Air Force ROTC cadet and junior in geography, gave a rundown on the positions.
"The pilots will fly the aircraft, the combat systems officers will control the electronic, navigation and weapons systems and the air battle managers will command and control the air battle," Blair said. The 13 cadets were selected for one of these career designations following two and a half years of leadership training, which included standardized testing, undergraduate and military studies, academic and physical evaluations, field training and a battery of psychomotor skills tests."
Congrats to Tyler!
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