Flight Screening Mission. The Officer Training School acquired an additional mission in March 1973, when the Air Training Command gave it responsibility for two T-41 flying operations then located at Stinson Field, formerly a World War II training facility in southeast San Antonio. One was a Flight Screening Program (FSP) conducted by Air Force instructor pilots reporting to Randolph AFB; the other was initial flight training for foreign officers conducted by contract instructors as part of the United States Security Assistance Training Program (SATP).

Flight screening became a School of Military Science, Officer, operation on 20 March 1973, on which date the Air Force contracted with Del Rio Flying Service to conduct the screening at Hondo Municipal Airport. At the same time, ATC directed that officer trainees who had enlisted for pilot training participate in the Flight Screening Program after their third week in SMSO. The intent was to reduce the expensive washout rate during undergraduate pilot training by determining early in officer training whether or not enlistees had an aptitude for flying. When SMSO took over initial flight training for foreign officers on 21 March 1973, operations continued at Stinson until the current contract with Hallmark Aviation expired in July 1973, at which time training moved to Hondo under a contract with Del Rio Flying Service. The two programs were similar, although diplomacy precluded SATP training from being referred to as screening process. Both programs licensed primary pilots under the Federal Aviation Administration procedures, using T-41 aircraft.

Reassignment to AFMTC. The next decade was stable and productive for the Officer Training School, experiencing little change. Then Maj. Gen. Carl R. Smith, Air Force Military Training Center (AFMTC) commander, acted on the inclinations of several previous center commanders by ordering his staff in 1984 to prepare a formal request for the reassignment of Officer Training School back to AFMTC. Following lengthy maneuvering and study, Lt. Gen. John A. Shaud, Commander, Air Training Command, decided that the request met his command philosophy that related missions should be led by a single field commander, especially where their location made common control feasible. The resulting ATC Special Order G-24 on 14 November 1986 restored the school to AFMTC, effective immediately.

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