Kyrgyzstan government officials were treated to show and tell by US Air Force airmen at Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan. (Are these the same guys who almost kicked us out over a yearlong rent hike hassle?) They got to fly aboard a USAF KC-135 tanker and see a C-17 airlifter get loaded up and refueled in the air.
Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Davis, the Department of the Air Force’s top internal watchdog, has been nominated to lead Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.