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Four student pilots, 1st Lt. Dan Dickenson, Capt. Marcus McGinn, and 1st Lts. Ryan Shelhorse and Austin B. Skelley, became the first graduates of the Air Force's F-22 Raptor Basic Course at Tyndall AFB, Florida, on 1 November. These pilots are the first in the Air Force to have the F-22 as their first operational aircraft rather than transitioning to the Raptor from another fighter. The course syllabus included approximately ninety hours of simulator training, twenty-seven academic tests, and more than sixty hours of flight training. The students will now complete mission qualification training at their operational F-22 squadrons. Dickenson, McGinn, Shelhorse, and Skelley are shown here with Col. William H. Mott, the 325th Operations Group commander at Tyndall (center).
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