ABSTRACT
The Air Force chief of staff announced a test program in 1975 for training and using women pilots in the Air Force, and an air staff working group subsequently convened to develop the necessary guidelines to implement a program. The working group initially recommended that the Air Force should enter a total of twenty women into fixed-wing undergraduate pilot training and six women into undergraduate navigator training. Complications also developed in the area of medical service and facilities. Although the planners had attempted to consider all possibilities in preparing the program, the need to establish and maintain proper test records led to special handling of the women students. Advanced training reports show no attrition to date and every indication would lead one to expect that women will continue to perform and advance on the same level as their male peers. Survival training is one of the most significant nonflying training events required before the women report to their operational units.
