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  • A New Hampshire Air National Guard KC-46A Pegasus refuels five Marine Corp’s F/A-18D Hornets with the Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242, as the fighters returned home to Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz. from MCAS Iwakuni, Japan on Sept. 10, 2020, over the Pacific Ocean. This marks the first official transoceanic coronet mission ever accomplished with a Pegaus refueler, which began Sept. 9 and involved 16 aerial refuelings of the fighters. (courtesy photo)

    Pease Airmen first to plan, fly KC-46 coronets

    PEASE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.H. -- Pease achieved another historic first in military aerial refueling.A year after the 157th Air Refueling Wing became the first Air National Guard unit in the country to field the KC-46A Pegasus, New Hampshire airmen helped plan and execute the new tanker’s first ever coronet, a tactical air movement that
  • Senior Master Sgt. Regina Rockwood, 157th Mission Support Group superintendent, left, and Airman 1st Class Philip Gray, 22nd Contracting Squadron contract administrator, review site visit details, Feb. 16, 2017, at Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire. Contract Airmen solicit and award contracts, work with local contractors for construction projects and ensure the government is getting the best value possible. (Courtesy photo)

    Contracting Airman helps Guard base to welcome KC-46

    MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. -- The arrival of the KC-46 Pegasus will be colossal for the Air Force, but the small contracting office at Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire, needed assistance to transition smoothly.Pease’s contracting office has less than one-third of McConnell’s manpower; yet the base has the most construction projects
  • An Israeli F-35 “Adir” receives fuel from a Tennessee Air National Guard KC-135 as the aircraft make the flight across the Atlantic, Dec, 6, 2016. The U.S.-made F-35s will be Israel’s first fifth generation fighter aircraft and were refueled multiple times while en route to ensure their safe delivery to Israel. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Erik D. Anthony)

    Air Mobility Command enables delivery of Israel’s first F-35s

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Air Mobility Command Airmen worked around the clock to ensure Israel’s first two F-35 aircraft were delivered Dec. 12, making the U.S. ally the only country in the Middle East flying a fifth generation fighter aircraft. The 618th Air Operations Center, based out of Scott AFB, Illinois, assigned the Tennessee Air
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