Posted on Dec 17, 2024

After a Yearslong Delay, Air Force Agrees to Send More Refueling Planes to Alaska

Lt Col Charlie Brown

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Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling operations, have been assigned to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and with them, around 220 additional personnel to maintain the aircraft.

News of the decision was announced Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, nearly four years after the Air Force first stated its intention to move the planes to Alaska.

After a Yearslong Delay, Air Force Agrees to Send More Refueling Planes to Alaska

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LTC Trent Klug

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Why the delay? Surely, it couldn't have been the Biden administration wanting our power projection capabilities to be less than optimal in that region? No. Joe's a hawk, right?

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After a Yearslong Delay, Air Force Agrees to Send More Refueling Planes to Alaska

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