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  • Tankers enable long-range bomber capability during Polar Roar

    Mobility Airmen play a vital role in deterrence and stand ready to operate in support of global operations at a moment’s notice.Air Mobility Command Airmen, 15 KC-135 Stratotankers and 10 KC-10 Extenders enabled Air Force Global Strike Command B-52s and B-2s to sustain air operations for more than

  • Joint Base MDL refuels Minot B-52s in Polar Roar

    Airmen with the 305th Air Mobility Wing here took part in a strategic bomber assurance and deterrence operation that involved multiple NATO allies and partners called Polar Roar on Aug. 31. Four KC-10 Extenders from here refueled three B-52 Stratofortresses from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota,

  • AF maintenance squadron prepares C-130 for US Forest Service

    What started out as an aircraft used by the Coast Guard will soon end up in the hands of the U.S. Forest Service. A C-130H that has been maintained by the 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is in its final stages of programmed depot maintenance here, having just wrapped up functional test

  • Refueling the Coalition

    High above the desert, Airman 1st Class Mallory, of the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, settles into her chair and begins flipping switches and checking gauges, preparing for the upcoming rendezvous. From her rear-facing seat in the back of a KC-10 Extender, she opens the rear refueling

  • KC-46 completes required flight tests

    The successful A-10 mission was the last of six in-flight refueling demonstrations required before the tanker program can request approval from Frank Kendall, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, to award production Lots 1 and 2, totaling 19 KC-46A aircraft.

  • Yokota receives last C-130H loadmaster

    The 374th Airlift Wing is the last active duty wing in theAir Force to operate the reliable and versatile work horse of airlift: theC-130 Hercules. Recently, the 374 AW received the U.S. Air Force’s lastactive duty loadmaster trained on the C-130H; Airman 1st ClassStephen Clark, 36th Airlift

  • Pegasus refuels Globemaster

    The KC-46A Pegasus connected in flight with an F-16 Fighting Falcon on July 8 and a C-17 Globemaster III on July 12.

  • Detachment standardizes aeromedical qualification training for Total Force

    Airmen across the Air Force assigned to 31 aeromedical evacuation squadrons must complete vigorous training to provide life-saving in-transit care on fixed wing aircrafts.The 375th Air Mobility Wing’s newest Formal Training Unit, Detachment 4, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the

  • MacDill welcomes new commander

    Col. April Vogel assumed command of the 6th Air Mobility Wing from Col. Daniel Tulley during a change of command ceremony July 8 at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

  • First USAF F-35A takes overseas flight to England

    The Air Combat Command F-35A Heritage Flight team accomplished America’s first transatlantic flight in an F-35A Lightning II, with refueling support from a KC-10 Extender, when it touched down June 30 at Royal Air Force Fairford, England.