Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center

Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center
Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center emblem
Active4 Feb 1984
CountryUnited States
BranchAir National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command, United States Air Force
RoleAirlift
Part ofAir Mobility Command
Garrison/HQRosecrans Air National Guard Base, Saint Joseph, Missouri

The Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center, (AATTC), is located at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base, Saint Joseph, Missouri. The host unit is the 139th Airlift Wing, Missouri Air National Guard. Founded in 1983, the AATTC was the brainchild of Major Howard W. Dixon, a pilot who sought the need to establish low level combat survival training and maneuvers for C-130 aircrews; as well as the airlift community as a whole. This evasive aerial survival training had been exclusive to the fighter community up until the establishment of the AATTC, which would expand this training to C-130 aircrews. The school would continue to evolve with the combined efforts of the technicians, AGR's and members of the 180th Airlift Squadron.