 Given that the air force officer had fellow officers who had been mentored by the late Group Captain Abdulrahman Saleh, who he regarded as one of the finest first generation officers of the air force and perished with several others when a transport plane was shot down by Dutch forces in 1947 in the current premises of the academy, he was bestowed posthumously, in honor of his sacrifice to the young air force and the republic, with the nickname Pak Karbol (Karbol shorthand for "Intelligent Airman").When he later assumed command of the Air Education, Training and Doctrine Command in the mid-60s, he decided to use that "Karbol" name to become the official name for all cadets of the Air Force Academy.The Air Force Academy, similar to most air force academies in the world, is a medium-sized, highly residential baccalaureate college, with a full-time, four-year undergraduate program that emphasizes instruction in the arts, sciences, and professions with no graduate program, preparing men and women to take on the challenge of being officers of the Air Force.