The Air National Guard’s Academy of Military Science, which moved from McGhee-Tyson ANGB, Tenn., to Maxwell AFB, Ala., graduated its first new Air Guard officers—119 out of the 126 who started—in the new location last week, reports the Montgomery Advertiser. Lt. Col. Ronald Daniels, AMS commander, told the newspaper there were inevitable hitches because “when you make a move like this, you can never plan for everything that’s going to happen.” With the addition this past year of the Air Guard officer training program, Maxwell now serves as the single officer training site for all three components—active, Guard, and Reserve.
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.