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  • Generations of Service

    The Air Force is all about family, but one family will find that McConnell Air Force Base brought them closer than they ever thought possible.

  • Maintenance Marshal

    Airman 1st Class Cutter Bedford, 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief journeyman, marshals a KC-135 Stratotanker Sept. 25, 2019, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Bedford decided to join the Air Force three years ago and was just recently stationed at McConnell. McConnell’s missions is to

  • KC-135 Statotanker Touch and Goes

    A KC-135 Stratotanker approaches the runway at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan, Dec. 18, 2018. The KC-135 is a force multiplier by mfurthering long-range bombers reach and keeping fighters on target longer. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury)

  • McConnell Airmen support Global Thunder

    Global Thunder is an exercise to test readiness and ensure a safe, secure, ready and reliable strategic deterrent force. The annual exercise is based on a notional scenario developed to drive execution of U.S. Strategic Command and component forces' ability to support the geographic combatant

  • The sky’s no limit – girls fly too!

    An all-female crew took to the skies to attend the Sky’s No Limit-Girls Fly Too! event March 10-11 at Abbotsford International Airport, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.

  • Foggy aircraft launch

    Tech. Sgt. Daniel Bevilacqua, 931st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, prepares to perform aircraft launch procedures Feb 28, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Crew chiefs carefully inspect every aircraft before each mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erin McClellan)

  • McConnell KC-135s deploy to Spain, support allies

    Two KC-135 Stratotankers, along with 33 McConnell Airmen, are deployed to Moron Air Base, Spain, in continued support of Operation Juniper Micron. The U.S. Air Force has been providing air refueling and airlift support to French aircraft conducting operations in Mali and North Africa since 2013.

  • McConnell Airmen attend Women in Aviation International Conference

    Nine Airmen assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing attended the 28th annual 2017 Women in Aviation International Conference March 2-5, Orlando, Florida.WAI is a non-profit organization dedicated to the encouragement and advancement of women in all aviation career fields. Women make up nearly half

  • Former CC returns to celebrate KC-135s, Airmen

    Underneath the shadow of the first KC-135 Stratotanker to fly, and with the massive hangers for the future home of the KC-46 Pegasus on the horizon, retired Gen. Stephen R. Lorenz spoke to 250 Airmen, veterans and community members about the 60-year legacy of the Stratotanker, Aug 31. “We were