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Air Force flyovers around US celebrate 100 years of air refueling
The Air Force is celebrating 100 years of air refueling by performing flyovers across the country.
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.
More still needed to fix Marine aviation in wake of 2018 crash that killed 6, Corps’ top aviator says
And more may be revealed when an additional investigation concludes in the coming months.
By Todd South
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
Unqualified pilot, inadequate training and a nonstandard maneuver: Inside the investigation to the 2018 midair refueling collision that killed six Marines
How a complacent command and unqualified pilot caused the crash that killed 6 Marines.
Facing Iran, Saudi Arabia still owes US $181 million for Yemen refueling
Saudi Arabia still has an unpaid bill with the Pentagon for $181 million for its refueling assistance in Yemen.
By Joe Gould
Truman sailors ordered to ‘clap like we’re at a strip club’ for Pence visit
Speaking with sailors in the Truman’s hangar bay, the vice president announced the White House’s decision to scrap its cost-saving decommissioning plans for Truman, which will instead enter its midlife Refueling Complex Overhaul.
By Jon Simkins
Two Marine F/A-18s collide midair over Twentynine Palms, California
The accident occurred while the aircraft were conducting close-air support training.
By Shawn Snow
Pentagon watchdog to investigate Yemen refueling
The Pentagon’s internal watchdog will investigate military refueling missions in the Mideast and Africa after the U.S. undercharged allies by $331 million for its support in the Yemen civil war.
By Joe Gould
Harrier with the 22nd MEU damaged after ingesting refueling strap
It's the third major aviation mishap for the Corps over the past two months.
By Shawn Snow