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Commercial tanker refuels US Air Force fighters for Singapore exercise
The U.S. Air Force could use commercial tankers to refuel fighters during training or exercises to free up its own tankers for operational missions.
Gen. Van Ovost takes the reins at Air Mobility Command
Van Ovost was previously AMC’s deputy commander. Before that she served as the Air Force’s director of staff at the Pentagon, where she advised leadership on diversity and inclusion efforts.
Air Guardsmen spot ‘SOS’ written on Pacific island beach, leads to rescue of 3 missing mariners
Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand that was spotted from above, authorities say.
MacDill Air Force reservists return from fighting COVID-19 in New York
MacDill Air Force reservists from the 927th Aerospace Medicine Squadron are coming out of quarantine after fighting COVID-19 in New York.
By Zach England
Russians post video of their intercept of Navy, Air Force aircraft over Black Sea
Russia scrambled an Su-30 fighter on Friday to intercept an RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, a P-8 Poseidon and a KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft, according to Russian authorities.
Bored in quarantine? Learn to fly a KC-135!
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TRANSCOM head pushes back against Air Force tanker retirements
The head of U.S. Transportation Command is pushing the Air Force to rethink some of its controversial plans to retire some of its older aerial refueling aircraft.
Air Force announces health study at Pease Air National Guard Base amid concerns about cancer
Officials at an Air National Guard base in New Hampshire announced that the Air Force will conduct a study amid concerns about exposure to carcinogens at the base.
75 years on, Battle of the Bulge memories bond people
As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery — filled with bodies, some headless, some limbless, blood seeping from the vehicles onto the roads that the U.S. soldiers had given their lives to liberate.
The Corps reopened an old aviation mishap investigation following deadly 2018 midair tanker collision
Before 2019, the Corps failed to complete an investigation into a 2016 mid-air collision involving a refueling tanker and Hornet that was strikingly similar to the deadly 2018 crash that took the lives of six Marines.
By Shawn Snow