Pipeline students don't receive fighter-refueling training in technical school and are expected to receive this training at their duty assignment. That's fine for a stateside unit, but if you're not refueling fighters as part of your mission, you're not getting that training. These aren't the only training difficulties we face. Restrictions on quiet hours prevent night flying unless it is an operational mission. This problem is compounded by the geographical location of England.
Most hours of darkness fall during quiet hours during the summer months.
That doesn't bode well when night qualifications are required training events. Multi-aircraft departures are also difficult training events to receive due to airspace restrictions and other problems. Additionally, our aircrew members don't have a flight simulator in Europe to use. Aircrews travel to the states once a year to get the mandatory training but have no opportunity to get year-round simulator training that would refresh procedural and system knowledge. The lack of a simulator is the number one safety concern of my friends in the ops group.