CAFB instructor headed to ISOS

COLUMBUS AFB, Miss. - Capt. Karen Miller, a 37th Flying Training Squadron instructor pilot at Columbus AFB, was selected to attend the Inter-American Squadron Officer School (ISOS) earlier this year. She will attend the eight-week course beginning on Feb. 21, 2018, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Miller is one of eight personnel, and the only pilot, in the Air Force to be selected for ISOS during FY 2018. ISOS is designed to develop personnel ready to lead air, space and cyberspace in an expeditionary war-fighting environment. However, its taught entirely in Spanish; and adapted for Latin American and U.S. Air Force captains who possess that language skill. She completed Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at CAFB, and was chosen to be a First Assignment Instructor Pilot at the 37th FTS. She is also a part of the Language Enable Airman Program (LEAP). “I’m in the LEAP for Portuguese and French, not for Spanish,” Miller said. “I just happen to speak Spanish as well. Leading up to my selection, I went … and took the Spanish (Defense Language Proficiency Test) because there is a minimum language requirement for (ISOS),” she explained. (Source: Columbus AFB 11/21/17)