now what do they do about training?
From this - dated May 2013
51 Squadron Personnel Reach 20,000 Operational Flying Hours | The Insight Online
Less than two years since their first aircrew members graduated from the training school at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, 51 Squadron is celebrating a milestone achievement, with 20,000 operational flying hours on the USAF RC-135 RIVET JOINT aircraft.
and this - dated Nov 2013 -
http://www.offutt.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123371162
Upon graduation, RAF aircrews are allowed to fly on U.S. Rivet Joints as part of a co-manning agreement. Their first operational mission flown on June 21, 2011, and since then RAF crews have flown more than more than 1,800 sorties and achieved in excess of 32,000 flying hours with the Fightin' Fifty-Fifth.
- 51 Squadron personnel might justifiably claim they were already quite well trained.
LFH