The National Guard Bureau-sponsored Business and Industry Days event last week in Wisconsin drew more than 60 civic and business leaders from seven Midwestern states. During the two-day event, Lt. Gen. Harry Wyatt III, Air National Guard director, welcomed the attendees, saying, “We need to work together, for us to learn more about what you do, and hopefully for you to learn more about what we do.” Among the planned activities, the Air Guard dispatched two KC-135 tankers to provide the attendees with a close-up view of air refueling operations as they flew them to the Volk Field, home to the Wisconsin National Guard’s Combat Readiness Training Center. (Volk Field report by TSgt. Jon LaDue)
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.