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  • One KC-135 and Seven KC-46s line up and take off from McConnell for exercise

    One KC-135 Stratotanker and seven KC-46A Pegasus perform an elephant walk July 1, 2020, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. McConnell’s tanker aircrews and maintenance personnel were tested on their ability to rapidly generating multiple sorties during a weather evacuation exercise. (U.S. Air Force

  • Twenty-five years of mission accomplishment

    The 931st Air Refueling Group stood up at McConnell AFB Jan. 1, 1995. Five months later, the Group’s first mission, the refueling of the “Spirit of Kansas,” a B-2 bomber, was complete.Retired Chief Master Sgt. Don Askren was a boom operator with the 18th Air Refueling Squadron on the historic first