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No longer the center of attention, Billy took a moment to check out the Eglin Air Force base’s simulator room.
It was still surprising that he was here.
He and the guys he’d left at the table in the DFAC had just graduated the Pilot Training Next program at AETC last week. The Air Education and Training Command at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, had run his class through a six-month simulator course rather than the year-long course that included mostly classroom time and some trainer time.
He loved the simulators.
Pilot Next had given him unlimited hours. If he screwed up a flight maneuver, he wasn’t taken into a classroom to discuss what had happened. Instead, they reset the flight to the moment he’d screwed up and he could keep reworking the moment until he nailed its ass.
He’d ap
