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====USAF Fighter Weapons School==== The [[USAF Weapons School|USAF Fighter Weapons School]] was designated on 1 January 1954 from the squadron{{Verify source|reason=Was the predecessor the 3595th Training Wing and not a squadron?|date=June 2013}} when the Air Crew School graduated its last Combat Crew Training Class (the primary Weapons School mission was gunnery instructor training).{{r|Manning}} In the mid-1950s for [[Operation Teapot]] nuclear testing, 1 of the 12 Zone Commanders was based at Nellis AFB for community liaison/public relations<ref name=Teapot>Operation Teapot report</ref> (weapons for other atomic tests were stored at Nellis).{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} [[Air Training Command]] suspended training at the Nellis fighter weapons school in late 1956 because of the almost total failure{{Clarify|reason=What type of failure? Did the aircraft fail in the air and crash, on the ground and not take off, or just not perform well enough for the mission?|date=June 2013}} of the F-86 Sabre aircraft used at Nellis,{{r|Manning}} and during 1958 ATC discontinued its Flying Training and Technical Training.
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