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Vol. 65 No. 26
July 3, 2015
Weapons
School
honors
newest
graduates
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Kleinholz Gen. Lori Robinson, Pacific Air
Forces commander, delivers the
keynote speech during the U.S. Air
Force Weapons School Class 15-A
graduation ceremony in Las Vegas,
Nev., June 27. The USAFWS teaches
graduate-level instructor courses
that provide the world’s most
advanced training in weapons and
tactics employment. The goals of
the courses are to train students to
be tactical experts in their combat
specialty while also learning the art
of battlespace dominance.
First enlisted Airmen awarded Weapons School graduate patches
By Staff Sgt. Siuta B. Ika tion of theater-focused air, space and go out from here, and when we looked said Capt. Dennis Seay, 66th Weapons
cyber power, said Col. Michael Drowley, at our JTAC community, they embody Squadron JTAC WIC flight commander.
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs USAFWS commandant. all those objectives. So for us, it was an “The original seven guys that created this
easy decision to say it’s time for them to course, created a WIC and this process
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — “Patch wearers are humble, approach- be patch wearers.” we’re going through now is the validation
History was made June 27, when five able and credible, and leaders for our of their work. The course has definitely
graduates of the U.S. Air Force Weapons air, space and cyber missions,” Drowley The five JTACs may be breaking taken our JTAC ability to the next level,
School’s Joint Terminal Attack Control- said. “For me as the commandant, this is through the barrier for enlisted Air- so the time we spend here plus the patch
ler Weapons Instructor Course became an amazing and historic event. When I men becoming patch wearers, but these means we’re better JTACs, and we know
the first enlisted Airmen in the school’s look at what patch wearers embody and graduates will join 24 JTAC Advanced we must be better JTACs when we go
66-year mission to be awarded the Weap- what the Weapons School stands for, it Instructor Course — the JTAC WIC’s back into the field.”
ons School’s graduate patch. comes down to instruction and leader- former name — graduates from earlier
ship. And that doesn’t matter what rank classes who will also be awarded the Seay said the JTAC curriculum runs
These graduates will now be recog- you are — enlisted or officer — so we coveted patch. much like a standard WIC with 24
nized as subject matter experts on a objectively looked at the criteria of what
broad spectrum of air-to-ground tactics, we want our graduates to be when they “This course, since its inception in ________See PATCHES, on page 3
techniques, procedures, and the integra- class 12-B, has been exactly the same,”
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