Originally Posted by
Background Noise
Non-US students have been trained at Sheppard for years.
Yes...and probably other bases too. A good buddy was a T37 instructor in the late 60s and even trained some Iranian students. In somewhat recent history, Afghan pilots were trained by the USAF [I made reference to a somewhat famous female Afghan pilot and her efforts to bail on the process...lost track of her and her status).
My question was more related to the current situation claimed by the USAF that they lack the training capacity to train enough of their own pilots which contributes to their current "shortage".
I guess the USAF has plenty of capacity if they can give training slots to non-US pilots ?