COLUMBUS AFB NEWS

  • Training Pilots for the Post 9/11 World

    On Sept 11th, 2001, I was 18 and beginning my military career at the New Mexico Military Institute for a year of academic prep before attending the U.S. Air Force Academy. I was studying for my first class of the day when my mother messaged me saying something terrible was happening in New York.

  • UPT Class 24-13 Graduation

    Seventeen Undergraduate Pilot Training student pilots of Class 24-13, graduated on August 29, 2024, at the Columbus Event Center on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The UPT graduation ceremony officially marks the completion of initial flight training in the T-6 Texan II as students earn their

  • UPT Class 24-12 Graduation

    Twenty-one Undergraduate Pilot Training student pilots of Class 24-12, graduated on August 2, 2024, at the Columbus Event Center on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The UPT graduation ceremony officially marks the completion of initial flight training in the T-6 Texan II as students earn their

  • UPT Class 24-10 Graduation

    Twenty-one Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 student pilots of Class 24-10, graduated on June 14, 2024, at the Kaye Auditorium on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The UPT 2.5 graduation ceremony officially marks the completion of initial flight training in the T-6 Texan II as students earn their

  • UPT Class 24-09 Graduation

    Fourteen Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 student pilots of Class 24-09, graduated on May 31, 2024, at the Kaye Auditorium on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The UPT 2.5 graduation ceremony officially marks the completion of initial flight training in the T-6 Texan II as students earn their

  • UPT CLASS 24-08 Graduation

    Eighteen Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 student pilots of Class 24-08, graduated on May 3, 2024, at the Kaye Auditorium on Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. The UPT 2.5 graduation ceremony officially marks the completion of initial flight training in the T-6 Texan II as students earn their wings and

  • Columbus Leans Into Agile Rapid Excellence

    Columbus Air Force Base graduates the first Fighter/Bomber Fundamentals class. F/BF is a new syllabus for students after Undergraduate Pilot Training, combining T-38 Graduate Pilot Training and T-38 Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals. This class is the first in the United States Air Force to

  • UPT Class 24-06 Graduation

    Twenty-eight Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 student pilots of Class 24-06, graduated on 15 March 2024, at the Kaye Auditorium on Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. The UPT 2.5 graduation ceremony officially marks the completion of initial flight training in the T-6 Texan II as students earn their

  • Beating the odds; a T-6 story

    Military aviators step into the cockpits of numerous aircraft throughout their careers, though the odds of those aircraft from their past being together again at the same time and in the same place are low, they are never zero.

  • Class 22-15 takes off; Lt. Gen. Pleus commends graduates

    After more than a year at Columbus Air Force Base, graduates of Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 22-15 walked across the stage and received their diplomas, September 9, 2022, in front of family and friends.