Air Force Capt. Taylor Bye's courage and cool in a mid-flight crisis earned her the Air Combat Command’s Airmanship Award in a May 5 ceremony at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.
With the Air Force’s shift toward preparing for a potential fight against a “great power” nation, Air Combat Command plans to overhaul how its pilots and other airmen train.
As the Air Force increasingly operates in contested airspace in places like Syria, Gen. Mike Holmes, head of Air Combat Command, wants his fighter pilots to learn to take more decisions into their own hands.