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McConnell-based KC-46 completes around-the-world flight in 45 hours
A KC-46A tanker from McConnell AFB completed a record round-the-globe sortie in 45 hours, a mission that saw multiple aerial refuelings — and a birthday.
Airmen take KC-46 tanker on record-setting ride in the name of sleep and fatigue science
The mission aimed to see how airmen and the jet would fare over a full day in flight.
Months-long flotation device delay preceded Texas soldier’s drowning
A Texas soldier drowned in the Rio Grande without a flotation device despite previous requests for the equipment.
This is what it’ll take to end the military’s border mission
Federalized troops have been deploying to the border since 2018.
McConnell AFB airman’s killer sentenced in Wichita
Airman 1st Class Chancelor Williams was shot and killed in July 2019.
Veteran, financier both plead guilty in ‘We Build The Wall’ fraudulent fundraiser
The organizers of the “We Build The Wall” group raised more than $25 million from donors as they repeatedly pledged every dollar would be used for the project.
DoD is sending more support to the Mexico border mission
The Defense Department will help Customs and Border Protection contract for some transportation and facilities needed to process migrants crossing the border.
Texas Guard’s border mission nearly out of cash, top general says
The cost for Operation Lone Star, which has deployed 10,000 service members, has ballooned to more than $2 billion a year.
Inflation sparks new fight over Biden’s military budget request
Spiking inflations’s potential effect on the Pentagon has emerged as a line of attack for Republicans who argue President Joe Biden’s defense budget was already treading water when it was introduced Monday.
By Joe Gould