ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force launched the Maternity Uni form Pilot Program, or “Rent the Camo,” on Oct. 1 that will tempo rarily issue free maternity uni form items to pregnant airmen and guardians assigned to the 10 participating bases.
Updates to the program, which the Air Force an nounced earlier this year, in clude:
n The U.S. Army will main tain a stock of operational cam ouflage pattern maternity uni forms for the program, as the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force and U.S. Army wear the same OCP uniform. The 10 bas es selected for the pilot program are near Army installations with a Central Issue Facility and can capitalize on the Army’s Orga nizational Clothing and Individ ual Equipment Direct Ordering system.
n By the end of the seventh month postpartum, the member will return the issued uniforms.
n Members may be liable for lost or damaged uniforms if it is beyond normal wear and tear.
n If an enlisted member has received a maternity clothing
Women, Peace and Security is a poli cy that recognizes women as a critical com ponent to achieve sustainable international peace and security
“This policy directly empowers wom en to impact their organizations and make a difference in the world,” said Master Sgt. Ana Mendiola, 571st Mobility Support Ad visory Squadron training flight chief. “WPS gives us a platform and opportunity to ad dress the issues women have faced. It shows our strength, courage and commitment to make things better for all.”
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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Ana Mendiola, the 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron training flight chief, closes the door of a Cessna 402 aircraft, Sept. 15, in Paraguay.
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Lt. Col. Greg Van Splunder, Lt. Col. Brandon Stock and Tech. Sgt. Matt Rogers, all of the 157th Air Refueling Wing, Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire Air National Guard, guide their KC-46A Pegasus as it receives fuel during a 36-hour endurance mission, Nov. 16.
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For the first time, the Defense Department will offer those en rolled in the Exceptional Fami ly Member Program, also called EFMP, an opportunity to pro vide detailed input about their experiences. Feedback will be used to improve how the pro gram provides services to partic ipating families.
“It’s pretty exciting because it’s the first official DoD sur vey about EFMP,” said Jennifer Wong, a program analyst with the Defense Department’s Of fice of Special Needs. “It’s a phe nomenal chance for families who are enrolled in the program to be heard directly at the DOD poli cy level.”
About 105,000 active-duty service members are part of the Exceptional Family Mem ber Program, which provides support to families with children or adult dependents who have special medical or education al needs.
Every service member with a family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Mem ber Program is eligible to take the survey, Wong said. Service members will receive an an nouncement e-mail containing a unique ticket number. Service members with a ticket number will be directed to go to www. dodsurveys.mil and enter the ticket number to take the survey. It’s expected that those emails will be sent out on or after Nov. 17, 2022.
According to Wong, the Ex ceptional Family Member Pro gram ensures that, among oth er things, special needs are taken into consideration when
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PEASE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.H. — A KC-46A Pegasus from the 157th Air Refueling Wing at Pease Air Nation al Guard Base, New Hampshire, flew a 36hour nonstop endurance mission covering 16,000 miles, Nov. 16-17, Air Mobility Com mand’s longest mission to date.
Gen. Mike Minihan, AMC commander, has relentlessly driven the command to find new ways to employ current assets in antici pation of a future fight.
“This extended mission is yet another ex ample of capable airmen taking charge and moving out to accelerate our employment
of the KC-46A,” Minihan said. “This Total Force mission boldly highlights the impera tive to think differently, change the way we do business, and provide options to the Joint Force.”
The KC-46A Pegasus provides strategic flexibility to the Air Force through its unique blend of persistence and presence. Since every KC-46A can itself be refueled in flight, each aircraft can persist in operations areas to enable sustained support to armed aircraft. During the mission, the aircraft re fueled F-22 fighters in the Pacific and was itself refueled three times.
The crew leveraged the KC-46A’s secure and unclassified networks and situational
awareness systems, which allows for a broad array of future uses. The platform’s situational awareness capabilities enable its protection in contested environments.
Lt. Col. Joshua Renfro, Air Mobility Command’s new KC-46A Cross-Functional team lead, described the importance of the mission.
“Pease’s accomplishment of this mission is the third consecutive success proving the KC-46A’s airborne persistence, build ing on previous 22- and 24-hour missions,” he said. “AMC is committed to a deliberate approach to broaden the scope of KC-46A
JOINT BASE SAN AN TONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) — Basic Expedition ary Airman Skills Training, or BEAST, has come to an end after a 16-year run.
With an eye toward the fu ture fight, Air Force basic mili tary training is implementing a revised training exercise – PAC ER FORGE – where Agile Com bat Employment and the concept of multicapable airmen are the beating heart.
Primary Agile Combat Em ployment Range, Forward Op erations Readiness Generation Exercise, or PACER FORGE, is a fast-paced, two-day scenariobased deployment that mirrors the Air Force’s force generation process and reinforces con cepts introduced at basic mili tary training.
“The move toward PAC ER FORGE is not just a renam ing or re-branding of BEAST,” said Col. Jeff Pixley, 737th Training Group commander. “This was a year-long effort to
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Basic military training has had dedicated training days to
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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. James May, center, 319th Training Squadron PACER FORGE cadre, guides airman basic trainees through the first phase of Primary Agile Combat, Forward Operations Readiness General Exercise (PACER FORGE), at Joint Base San AntonioChapman Training Annex, Texas, Oct. 26.
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instill the warrior mindset, ini tially called “Warrior Week,” since 1999. That training was ex panded in 2004 and in 2006, the four-day BEAST exercise stood up and had largely remained un changed, until now.
Pixley assumed command of basic military training in 2021, and assessed that BEAST was more centered around just-intime predeployment training which led to the re-engineering and birth of PACER FORGE.
“The creation of the PACER FORGE program is an opportu nity for students to prepare for their roles as multicapable air men and for instructors to hone their leadership skills to mentor the new generation,” he said.
PACER FORGE is executed in the sixth week of basic mili tary training. During a 36-hour window, military training in structors and trainees, will de ploy to the former BEAST site where they will be organized into smaller dispersed teams. Here, they will be put to the test with scenarios that are built to provide flexibility, promote in formation seeking, teamwork, decision making and are results focused.
Pixley said the PACER
FORGE curriculum is designed to enhance force packaging with teams tailored for mission gen eration, command and control, and base operating support func tions to help meet the vision of the 2030 Enlisted Force Airman. It is also a change in that cadre are now in a mentorship and fa cilitation role, versus giving di rection and instruction.
“The most important thing we do at BMT is plant the seeds of personal discipline, wingman ship, teamwork and embrace our core values,” Pixley said. “This culminating event for BMT does just that while focused on the fu ture fight. We are providing ba sic trainees with their first op portunity to put their teamwork, discipline and problem-solving skills to the test in a scenariobased deployment that is phys ically demanding and based on real-world operations.”
Pixley said trainees can put into practice the basic war fighting skills learned in earli er weeks of training. Skills such as tactical combat casualty care and weapons handling.
“Agile Combat Employ ment is about building foun dational skills and prob lem-solving behaviors in an increasingly challenged threat environment to codify
repeatable and understandable processes,” said Lt. Col. Jeff Par rish, 319th Training Squadron commander, whose squadron is responsible for the oversight of PACER FORGE.
He said instructors also love that the new curriculum affords them the freedom of creativity to adjust and adapt in real-time based on trainee actions, skill level and capability.
“What we are doing is making them [trainees] ready to join any team, to work well together, to solve tough problems, to be good wingmen and teammates, and to innovate,” Pixley said. “If we get it right, it will be the highlight of their BMT experience, despite only being 36-hours in length. Early feedback suggests we are absolutely on the right track.”
PACER FORGE is opera tional, but officials are purpose ly keeping the scenarios close to the vest.
“We want it to be something trainees consider so important and formative that they don’t spoil it for those that follow,” Pixley said. “This is not the end of an era but rather a symbolic change to develop capable and ready airmen and guardians . . . anytime, anywhere.”
By Air Mobility Command Public Affairs
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, IL. — Air Mobility Command hosted Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr., as well as senior leaders from eight ma jor commands, at Fall Phoenix Rally here, Nov. 17, where a co hort of strategists and planners unveiled a winning scheme of
maneuver that will position the Joint Force to win in a potential high-end fight.
The nearly 200 attendees, which included total force mobil ity command teams and spous es, also explored how air mobil ity is critical to joint integration and logistics in a contested en vironment. The theme of the
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presentations was clear: Mobil ity is the primary consideration. Air Mobility Command will be how the joint force gets to the fight and sustains the fight.
“The reason we’re here is to have a conversation,” said Gen. Mike Minihan, Air Mobility Command commander. “We’ve had to do the intellectual push ups to deliver a winning scheme of maneuver for our Airmen to win. I hope it never happens, but if it does, it will be the worst de cision the other side ever made. And it will be [the Mobility Air Forces] the joint force will look to.”
The command’s recently completed competition cam paign plan aligns its activities on the road to Mobility Guard ian next summer along three lines of effort: deterring adver saries from aggression, assuring partners, and maximizing capabilities and readiness in order to close connectivity, survivability and agility gaps.
During his opening remarks, Brown commented on the sig nificant accomplishments of Air Mobility Command over the past year.
“When I think of all the things that have occurred . . . coming out of Afghanistan, bringing the KC-46 online, all the support for Ukraine, and setting up for
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a lot to get done in a year,” he said, also highlighting trust ing and empowering airmen as key to those successes.
Brown presented his top pri orities for the Air Force, among which is the requirement for forces to be light, lean and agile in combat employment. Lt. Gen.
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that’sTech. Sgt. Zachary Boyer/U.S. Air Force file U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr. speaks at Air Mobility Command’s Fall Phoenix Rally at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., Nov. 17.
“Agile combat employment is the way the Air Force is going to generate and sustain power in the Pacific. We were happy to have General Minihan and his team with us at [our weapons and tactics conference] last week working on some key components and the challenges of aggregating airpower in a contested environment.”
Lt. Gen. James Jacobson
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James Jacobson, Pacific Air Forces deputy commander and rally attendee, put into perspec tive why that matters in the In do-Pacific area of responsibility.
“Agile combat employment is the way the Air Force is going to generate and sustain power in the Pacific,” he said. “We were happy to have General Mini han and his team with us at [our weapons and tactics conference] last week working on some key components and the challenges of aggregating airpower in a con tested environment.”
The rally included multiple guest speakers and presented a deliberate agenda focused on le veraging diversity, promoting a culture of dignity, and encour aging a Warrior Heart mental ity – all with the goal of arming airmen with the emotional resil ience to be ready for the realities of a violent fight.
“Part of what these ral lies are about is getting af ter resiliency model, or what we call Warrior Heart,” Mini han said. “That’s mind, body
and craft – everything it takes to strap in and get after it. And then the other aspect is focusing on lethality – what mobility brings is the maneuver to concentrate capabilities and turn that into le thality.”
A break in the schedule al lowed attendees to witness the historic presentation of a Distin guished Flying Cross to a Scott Air Force Base airman for her contributions to aeromedical evacuation during Operation Al lies Refuge. Tech. Sgt. Katherine Rosa Orellana received the med al for her actions in response to a suicide bombing at Hamid Kar zai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021. Orellana was among the first to respond to the mass casualty, evacuating and saving the lives of 22 multinational and joint-service casualties, includ ing five ventilated patients and multiple Afghan evacuees over an eight-hour period.
Air Mobility Command’s pre sentation of the winning scheme of maneuver advances the com mand one step closer to Mobility
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Com missary customers worldwide are now seeing lower prices on items across store inventories to help them achieve at least 25% savings compared to off-post grocers.
The price reductions also include an updated version of the “Your Everyday Savings” (YES!) Program, which now also goes to overseas customers. DeCA is broadening price reductions thanks to the Department of Defense’s recent “Taking Care of Service Members and Families” initiative.
DoD’s increase of commissary fund ing allows the agency to reduce prices across its product assortment, especial ly on food staples such as milk, eggs, butter, ground beef, baby products and more,
DeCA Director and CEO Bill Moore said in a press release.
Blue signage points the way to lower prices throughout the store, while or ange signs highlight specific savings on core items that commercial retailers of ten reduce through periodic sales promo tions. The price on YES! items in the com missary are on sale over the course of the year.
As commissaries lower their prices, it’s vital that all eligible patrons are aware of their benefit and its gateway to savings and healthy options, said Marine Sgt. Maj. Michael Saucedo, senior enlisted adviser to the DeCA director.
“A lot of people don’t really understand that the commissary benefit is con gressionally mandated and regulated by the National Defense Authorization Act,” Saucedo said in the press release. “I run
into people every day – disabled veterans and active duty service members alike –who just don’t know that they have earned these savings.”
DeCA continues to execute what it de scribes in the press release as “a transfor mation game plan to lower prices on the items that matter most, improve a sup ply chain still beset with tremendous la bor challenges and improve customer ser vice.”
“It’s a vitally important benefit, prob ably more important now than ever in these days of unprecedented inflation,” Moore said in the press release. “Getting this benefit as good as we can get it, enabling as much savings as resources allow is vitally important for our patrons as they deal with food and economic insecurities.
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Guardian 2023, a biannual exercise set to take place in the Pacific next year. This event set up the next rally as a milestone, which will include total force mobility Airmen as a stan dard going forward.
Speaking about the challenge ahead of Air Mobility Command, Brown referenced the power of lega cy, citing the experiences of “mobility legend” Lt. Gen. William Tunner, who conducted major airlift opera tions over the Hump during World War II.
“He talked about how airmen un derstand and know how to compete,” Brown said about Tunner. “He was doing this in the Indo-Pacific. That’s where our focus is, and that’s where Mobility Guardian is going to be next year. . . . We have to challenge our selves, and we have to challenge the status quo. What worked yesterday may not work tomorrow.”
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Between Sept. 13-29, Men diola deployed to Paraguay with eight team members from the 571st Mobility Support Adviso ry Squadron. Their mission was to train Paraguayan Armed Forc es, demonstrate interoperabili ty and build partnership capacity with the host nation. During their deployment, a real-life example of Women, Peace and Security in action was during Mendiola’s first flight with the Paraguayan Armed Forces (also known as the Fuerzas Armadas de Paraguay).
“The mission in Paraguay was historically significant because the first flight between the two partner nations included an air crew comprised of only women, led by a female pilot,” Mendio la said. “When I found out Capt. Maria Jara would be flying the first flight, it became more than just flying with a partner nation. It meant that Capt. Jara has been empowered and entrusted by our partner nation to make an impact and a difference.”
Jara, originally born and raised in Paraguay, was once a student and pilot-in-training at Columbus Air Force Base, Mis sissippi, where she attended Air Education and Training Com mand’s 14th Flying Training Wing pilot school. Now Jara is back home in Paraguay, passing on the knowledge she learned as a pilot to her fellow countrymen.
“This shows men and women can be leaders in whatever area they work in, that we can work together for a better and more united world where peace and equality reign,” Jara said.
Women, Peace and Securi ty continues to be pioneering as it promotes a gendered perspec tive as well as women’s mean ingful participation in peace pro cesses and security.
However, it also unprece dented in how it is advancing and empowering women.
“In a field that was previous ly and exclusively dominated by men, it is interesting to a see an
aircrew that is completely and solely operated by women,” Jara said. “It denotes the progress, capacity and professionalism of women while making the differ ence between men and women less and less.”
According to the Pew Re search Center, from 1973 to 2010 the number of U.S. activeduty enlisted women in the mil itary has grown from about 42,000 to 167,000. While a small er number of women than men serve overall, a slightly great er proportion among the ranks of women are commissioned of ficers, compared with the share of men who are officers: 17% for women vs. 15% for men. This trend continues today to support women growing and advancing within the military.
“At U.S. Southern Command, we are committed to integrat ing gender perspectives into all our activities,” said Gen. Lau ra J. Richardson, commander of the U.S. Southern Command and first female Southern Com mand commander. “We encour age our partners to create struc tural changes in their militaries to allow for the same through our WPS program.”
Richardson’s statement on Women, Peace and Security was made before the 117th Congress Senate Committee on Armed Forces, March 24, 2022.
“Our main objective is to maximize the talents of the force through recruitment, re tention, training and advance ment,” Richardson said. “We consistently encourage our part ner nation militaries to provide more opportunities for the wom en in their ranks, because dou bling the talent pool will vastly improve that military’s competitiveness and professionalism.”
According to the U.S. Institute of Peace, Women, Peace and Se curity was unanimously adopted October 31, 2000, by the United Nations, and subsequently, Pres ident Barack Obama signed an executive order that established the U.S. Nation Action Plan for
WPS in 2011. It was later revised in 2016 and built upon when President Donald Trump signed into law The U.S. Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017.
This mandated training for relevant government personnel on Women, Peace and Security issues, encouraged consultation
regarding women’s participation in peace processes and required a National Strategy for Wom en, Peace and Security, which was then signed and released by President Trump to Congress in June 2019.
President Joe Biden ex panded upon that by creating
a Gender Policy Council, the world’s first freestanding policy council solely focused on gender equity and equality.
As of 2021, 103 countries have officially created National Action Plans for Women, Peace and Se curity.
While the road for women’s equality has been long, there is still work left to be done to achieve peace and security for all. These stories show the foot prints of empowered women, that progress is being made.
“Our main objective is to maximize the talents of the force through recruitment, retention, training and advancement.”
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a military family is moved to a new duty assignment.
“When a family PCSs to the next location, they may be look ing for particular medical ser vices, specialists, therapies, be havioral health – those types of services – and we want to make sure that when they do PCS, they’ll have continuity of care,” Wong said.
Wong said the results of the survey will be used by the de partment to both improve the program and standardize deliv ery to all families across the ser vices.
“Within the Office of Spe cial Needs, we are committed to improving support for mili tary families with special med ical and/or educational needs,” Wong said. “A vital part of that . . . is hearing from families who are enrolled in the program. It’s very important to hear from the families who are in the program so we have feedback that’s rep resentative of the families we
serve, and it’s based off their re al-life experiences and their in teractions with the program. That’s why it’s a great opportuni ty for families who are enrolled to participate in the survey.”
The Exceptional Family Member Program is made up of three components: Identification and enrollment of family mem bers into the program, which is completed by the medical com mands; an assignments com ponent that ensures the medi cal and/or education needs of the family member are taken into consideration with an up coming PCS, which is complet ed by the medical and personnel commands; and a family support component, which families can reach out to for information re garding resources and nonclini cal case management.
“The survey is going to ask about all three components and what a family’s experience or interaction has been . . . so we can see all those different touch points for a family, what’s work ing or what can be improved
upon,” Wong said.
Every family enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program will be able to take the survey and share their own fami ly experiences with the program. While Wong said invitations will be sent out to service members only, she recommends that the survey – which should take about 15 minutes to complete – be done with all adult service and family members’ involvement.
“We encourage the service member to maybe sit down, have a conversation with other adult family members, and per haps take the survey together . . . to provide that full perspective
of EFMP and also services out side the program such as med ical or educational services,” Wong said.
Also of note, Wong said, is that while the department ex pects to invite every Exceptional Family Member Program fami ly to participate in the survey, it is possible that recently enrolled members might not get an invi tation. It’s also possible that if a military service doesn’t have an accurate email address for a ser vice member, then that service member might not get an invi tation. Those Exceptional Fam ily Member Program families will still be able to participate in the survey, however, and are en couraged to do so, Wong said.
“We want maximum participation,” she said. “This
is a great opportunity to give your feedback straight to DoD – straight to your service level leadership.”
For service members with family members enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program who don’t get an invi tation and ticket number to par ticipate in the survey, they can go to www.dodsurveys.mil, click the “Click Here” button below the “Don’t have a ticket num ber?” message, and then enter their DoD ID number and date of birth to take the survey.
For more information on sup port for families with special needs, visit the Military One Source webpage on special needs at https://www.military onesource.mil/special-needs.
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Military commissaries are op erating under a holiday sched ule beginning this week and con tinuing through New Year’s Day, DeCA has announced.
DeCA’s announcement means many of the commissaries normally closed Mondays will be
open on that day during the week of Christmas, expanding available shopping hours for pa trons preparing for their holiday meals.
Commissaries were closed Thursday for Thanksgiving. They will be open for holi day hours (closing at 4 p.m.) on Christmas Eve, and open under a normal operating schedule for New Year’s Eve.
All commissaries will be closed Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Patrons are reminded to
check the “Store Information & Holiday Hours” box on their store’s webpage at https://com missaries.com/shopping/storelocations for specific operating schedules.
Customers can now download a mobile app to access DeCA website programs such as Commissary CLICK2GO online payment and curbside pickup, dig ital coupons, the sales flyer, dietitian-approved recipes and
much more.
Available free for download via the Google Play and Apple app stores for Android and Ap ple devices, respectively, the mobile app gives commissary shoppers access to a variety of DeCA’s online functions on their smart phones and tablets.
DeCA’s mobile app will al low customers easy access to on line functions like the follow ing on DeCA’s website at https:// commissaries.com:
n One-click access to Com missary CLICK2GO online or
dering and payment features (account information, order history with saved items and lists, digital receipts and more).
n Healthy Living resources such as “Thinking Outside the Box” recipes, nutritional infor mation on healthier living, prod uct dietitian-approved recipes listed on the website’s meal solu tions page and more.
n Savings Center for the Com missary Sale Flyer, information on Commissary Store Brands, digital coupons on the Commis sary Rewards Card and more.
An F-22 Raptor waits for gas just off the wingtip of a KC46A Pegasus aerial refueler from the 157th Air Refueling Wing, Nov. 16.
The KC-46A was performing a 36-hour endurance mission, flying nonstop from New Hampshire, across North America and the Pacific Ocean, around Guam and back home again. The proofof-concept operation showcased the ability of the Air Force’s newest tanker to project the force in the modern battle space.
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allowance in the past three years, they are not eligible to participate in the program.
n Eligible enlisted members participating in the program will still receive a partial maternity clothing allowance.
n Members should reference the welcome packet welcome packet for detailed information on how to participate in the pro gram at their specific location. More information about the pilot program and the welcome packet can be found at https:// mypers.af.mil/app/answers/ detail/a_id/53183.
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employment and its global com mand and control capabilities.”
A human performance mon itor aboard the flight collected quantitative data throughout the mission. This data, along with that collected during the oth er recent 20-plus hour missions, will be used to inform decision making for future norm-break ing employment opportunities.
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during flight. After its recordbreaking sortie, the aircraft landed “Code 1” – ready to fly with no discrepancies.
“This mission was a true ex ample of Total Force Integra tion. The expertise of both our Guard and active duty airmen in executing this mission dem onstrated how crucial teamwork is in any wartime scenario,” he
A KC-46 Pegasus sits on the flightline at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Nov. 22, 2019.
The KC-46 is an aerial refueling and transport aircraft designed to replace the KC-135 Stratotanker.
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