All C-5A model aircraft reside with Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command units. USAF’s plan to retire 22 over the next two years would strip 10 from the AFRC unit at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and the other 12 likely would come from three Air National Guard units at Martinsburg, W.Va., Memphis, Tenn., or Stewart AFB, N.Y. USAF has already said it would put C-17s at Wright-Patt and, according to Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, one ANG unit. The service’s recent basing announcement indicated all three Air Guard C-5A units are under consideration for the C-17, but it did not specify if it would select one or more.
A KC-46 touched down at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., on July 1 after a record 45-hour nonstop flight around the world. The mission, called Project Magellan, saw the two crews aboard test their limits as they refueled Air Force jets around the planet.