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May 4, 2022
McConnell Airmen assist Andover tornado recovery efforts

Team McConnell is assisting the city of Andover, Kansas, in tornado recovery as the community was devastated by an EF-3 tornado April 29, 2022.
May 4, 2022
History can have a price tag: “Golden Shovel” returned home

A Scott Air Force Base historical artifact was recently in an antique shop and has returned home after mysteriously vanishing more than 100 years ago. After a store owner reached out to a 375 Air Mobility Wing historian, the item was brought back April 12, 2022.
May 2, 2022
Employing the Pegasus: From Concept to Capable

Approximately 220 Active, Guard and Reserve Airmen have operated four KC-46A Pegasus out of Spain from mid-March through most of April 2022. The Total Force team make up the first KC-46 Employment Concept Exercise (ECE), evaluating how they and the aircraft will provide rapid global mobility to
May 2, 2022
Air Mobility Command leadership visits McConnell

MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. – General Mike Minihan, Commander of Air Mobility Command, Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick, AMC command chief, and their spouses visited McConnell Air Force Base April 27-28, to see firsthand the advances in aerial refueling missions as well as engage with Airmen,
May 2, 2022
LRAFB breaks ground on new Airmen dormitories

Alongside civic leaders and community partners, Little Rock Air Force Base senior leaders broke ground on its newest construction project during a ceremony on April 28.
April 28, 2022
AMC Museum receives USAF’s first KC-10A Extender

The very first KC-10A Extender ever produced for the U.S. Air Force was retired from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, to its new home at the Air Mobility Command Museum on Dover AFB, Delaware, April 26, 2022.Tail number 79-0433 was the first of 60 KC-10A aircraft produced for the Air
April 27, 2022
Innovation, Technology and Gaming collide May 24-29 at FORCECON 2022

Airmen and Guardians from across the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force are invited to take part in FORCECON 2022: Innovation – Technology – Gaming, an interactive industry and academia collider event and gaming competition being held at the Tech Port Center and Arena in San Antonio, Texas, May
April 27, 2022
KC-46A conducts first operational international aircraft refueling during Employment Concept Exercise

In a major milestone for the KC-46A program, a Pegasus refueled Spanish EF-18 Hornets, known in Spain as C-15s, on April 18, during its first Employment Concept Exercise, ECE 22-03, at Moron Air Base, Spain. This mission marked the first operational refueling of an international receiver for the
April 25, 2022
‘One step ahead’: Gen Minihan drives AMC towards Pacific, accelerates Mobility Guardian 23 planning

At his most recent commander’s call, Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Command, hosted a Rehearsal of Concept drill with the AMC headquarters staff gathered around a massive map of the Pacific theater sprawled across the floor of a hangar April 5, 2022.
April 23, 2022
AF crowns Readiness Challenge VIII winners, plans FOC event in 2023

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Following a more than 20-year competition hiatus, the Air Force civil engineering community crowned winners of the Air Force Civil Engineer Readiness Challenge April 22, 2022. Surrounded by a crowd of more than 400 civil engineers — competitors, cadre and team

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