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The first T-37/T-38 undergraduate pilot training course was held at [[Webb AFB]], Texas, in February 1962. During the next few years, increasing numbers of US service members went to Southeast Asia as military advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces, but the effect on ATC was negligible.<ref name="FPT">Manning, Foreign Pilot Training, p. 44.</ref> | The first T-37/T-38 undergraduate pilot training course was held at [[Webb AFB]], Texas, in February 1962. During the next few years, increasing numbers of US service members went to Southeast Asia as military advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces, but the effect on ATC was negligible.<ref name="FPT">Manning, Foreign Pilot Training, p. 44.</ref> | ||
When president | When president Lyndon B. Johnson increased America's military involvement in [[South Vietnam]] in 1965, there was a resultant increase in Air Force military and technical training. However, unlike previous wars, the [[Vietnam War]] did not result in a drastic increase in the command's bases or personnel. This was because ATC reverted to a split-phase program of basic military training, and because the command's training philosophy was geared toward generalized rather than specialized technical training.<ref name="STB">Manning, Split-Phase BMT Reborn, p. 160.</ref> | ||
[[File:3332 BMTS Flt 495 Dec 1966 Amarillo.jpg|thumb|left|USAF Basic Training graduation photo, 3332d BMTS Flight 495, December 1966, Amarillo AFB, Texas/]] | [[File:3332 BMTS Flt 495 Dec 1966 Amarillo.jpg|thumb|left|USAF Basic Training graduation photo, 3332d BMTS Flight 495, December 1966, Amarillo AFB, Texas/]] | ||
Pilot training gradually increased as the war dragged on. But officials reassigned many of ATC's best instructor pilots to the operational commands, creating severe flying training difficulties. Then in 1969, ATC's involvement in a program of training and equipping the [[Republic of Vietnam Air Force]] to become a self-sufficient, 40-squadron air force caused technical training production to surge by approximately 50 percent, to over 310,000. This increase, however, was not to last long.<ref name="FPT"/> | Pilot training gradually increased as the war dragged on. But officials reassigned many of ATC's best instructor pilots to the operational commands, creating severe flying training difficulties. Then in 1969, ATC's involvement in a program of training and equipping the [[Republic of Vietnam Air Force]] to become a self-sufficient, 40-squadron air force caused technical training production to surge by approximately 50 percent, to over 310,000. This increase, however, was not to last long.<ref name="FPT"/> | ||