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48th Security Forces Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, Britain, on June 1 dedicated one of the base’s gates to SrA. Jason D. Nathan, a unit member killed one year ago in Iraq. “Airman Nathan represents the absolute best of what the Air Force brings to the fight every day,” Capt. Gregory Bodenstein, who served with Nathan in Iraq, said during the dedication ceremony. Nathan was killed by an improvised explosive device June 23, 2007, while on a combat patrol in Tikrit. His grandfather, Rev. Lorenzo Holt, his sister, Janelle, and his mother, Phyllis Nathan, attended the ceremony. (Lakenheath report by TSgt. J. LaVoie)
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.