Travis Tailwind: Friday, March 17, 2023

KC-10 Extender fuels across Pacific

Senior Airman Alexander Merchak

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AVALON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Australia — Aircrews assigned to the 6th and 9th Air Refueling Squadrons, 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base provided cargo, passenger and in-air refueling support to and from the 2023 Australian International Airshow and Aerospace and Defense Exposition at Avalon International Airport, Victoria, Australia, from Feb. 21 through March 8.

The Team Travis KC-10 aircrew supported a cargo movement, transporting 11,000 pounds of general cargo to Kadena Air Base, Japan, enhancing integrated tanker capabilities through multiple-tanker, coronet missions across the Indo-Pacific region.

From Kadena Air Base, the KC-10 aircrew gained passengers and cargo. Additionally, the tanker provided coronet support, a tactical air movement that typically involves multiple fighter aircraft, for three F-22 Raptor aircraft assigned to the 525th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and two F-15C aircraft assigned to the 67th Fighter Squadron at Kadena Air Base.

“This trip really proved our ability to get our fighters to their destination, anywhere at any time,” said U.S. Air Force Capt. Jeffrey Schafer, 9th Air Refueling Squadron KC-10 pilot and

aircraft commander. “It proved that the KC-10 can still effectively operate and accomplish the mission during our transition [to the KC-46A Pegasus], ensuring that we continue to have a free and open Indo-Pacific.”

Providing support alongside the KC-10 were four KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft: three assigned to the 909th Air Refueling Squadron at Kadena Air Base, and one

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“This isn’t the first and won’t be the last time a mission like this is generated,” Schafer said. “As a tanker community, our goal is to get the receivers to their destination on time.”

The five-tanker aircraft traveled to the 2023 Avalon event not only to provide operational

refueling enroute, but to showcase the importance of Mobility Air Forces in support of the nation’s Pacific partners.

Avalon is Australia’s premiere aerospace exhibition air show and trade show, offering opportunities for industry and defense representatives as well tourists in the Pacific area to witness the importance of partnerships, alliances and air power. The

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2023 Avalon event hosted distinguished visitors from 40 countries.

“There’s no other country with whom the U.S. trains more closely, operates more seamlessly and with whom we share more of our most sensitive technologies,” said U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, during the opening ceremony. “There’s no other military that we have fought, side-by-side, in every major conflict for more than 100 years.”

The aircrew highlighted the KC-10 and its capabilities to more than 200,000 people during the event and won the 2023 Avalon “Best Military Tanker” award.

“This further emphasizes how critical our role is to the movement of multiple aircraft around

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A U.S. Air Force F-15C aircraft, assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan, receives fuel from a KC-10 Extender assigned to Travis Air Force Base, over the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility, March 6. The 6th Air Refueling Squadron refueled three different aircraft including an F-15C, F-22 Raptor and a KC-46A Pegasus.

Visitors enter a U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender, assigned to Travis Air Force Base, during the Avalon 2023 Australian International Airshow and Aerospace and Defense Exposition at Avalon International Airport, March 4.

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AURORA, Colo. (AFNS) — Already well known for insisting that the U.S. Air Force modernize and “accelerate” to meet today’s evolving security threats, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr., March 7, added another requirement during his keynote address at the Air and Space Forces Association 2023 Warfare Symposium.The service, its airmen and civilians, he said, need to be “uncomfortable.”

“I’d rather be uncomfortable than lose. That’s exactly why I wrote Accelerate Change or Lose,” Brown told an audience of several thousand airmen, industry officials, elected officials and Air Force advocates at the symposium, an influential gathering that draws participants from around the world.

“As airmen, you must think differently about how we fly, fight and win. With accelerate, change, or lose, you need to think about the speed, the agility, the lethality we have that are force multipliers. You must adapt. And we cannot do this by ourselves. . . . In order to be successful, we have to work together,” he said.

The Air Force must modernize. The Air Force must move quicker, it must accelerate, to adapt and reshape itself to position itself to face the new and emerging threats to the nation’s security and interests. It must balance

“capabilities” against “capacity,” which is code for evaluating the Air Force’s strength not simply by the number of aircraft, missiles and personnel but by assessing how the Air Force fits into a wholistic approach braiding together the Joint Force, allies and industry.

In short, Brown emphasized that the service must adapt and reform to ensure that its distinctive history is maintained. “For more than 75 years, when our nation has called, air power was the answer.” While maintaining that standard is complex and multiple-layered, Brown said it could be boiled down to one clear trait. “We need to have credible combat capability. We cannot afford to bluff.”

To get there, Brown announced a new feature of the modernization effort – Air Force Future Operating Concept or AFFOC. This effort, Brown said, “ensures that we are intentionally linked to the Joint Warfighting Concept to execute our core functions to create opportunities for the joint force. Without the integrated capabilities provided by our Air Force and our airmen, joint force opportunities will be infrequent and costly.”

As part of the overarching push to reshape and modernize, Brown identified “six fights” the Air Force now and in the future must dominate “to deter conflict and project air power in defense of our allies, partners and

national interests. They are fight to compete and deter; fight to get into theater; fight to get airborne; fight for air superiority; fight to deny adversary objectives; and fight to sustain the fight. And as before, Brown was blunt about the stakes and the

Jennifer Carter-Powe/U.S. Air Force Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. delivers a keynote speech, “Airmen in the Fight,” during the Air and Space Forces Association 2023 Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo., March 7.

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President selects new design for ‘Next Air Force One’

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WASHINGTON (AFNS) — President Joe Biden has selected the livery design for the “Next Air Force One,” VC-25B, a design that will closely resemble the livery of the current Air Force One, VC-25A, while also modernizing for the 21st century.

While accounting for the VC25B’s larger 747-8i aircraft, the VC-25B livery has three primary differences with the VC-25A’s livery.

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U.S. Joe Biden selected the livery design for the “Next Air Force One,” VC25B, a design that will closely resemble the livery of the current Air Force One, VC-25A, while also modernizing it.

AMC removes code used to identify female flyers

Tech. Sgt. Zachary Boyer AIR MOBILITY COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS SCOTT AIR FORCE

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Ill. (AFNS) — In the summer of 2021, Lt. Col. Nicole Stenstad, 16th Airlift Squadron command er, while researching uncon scious gender bias, came up with the idea to try and remove the G-code from Air Mobility Com mand flight authorizations.

Aviation Management in structs the use of Air Force Form 4327A, including a “Mandatory Remarks” section that uses letter codes to denote the qualifications, duties and mission status of each flight crew member. The letter G was a legacy marker once intended to secure appropriate lodging and readiness items for female crew members.

Air Mobility Command in November removed the G-code from flight authorizations.

Chief Master Sgt. Patrick Gray, Air Mobility Command Aviation Resource Management functional manager, sent out field guidance to all Air Mobility Command squadron aviation resource

management offices that said, “Unlike the other codes listed, the G designation has no bearing on the individual’s experience, qualification or currency in the aircraft. Identifying the gender of crew members is unnecessary to the completion of duties.”

Gray’s email would go on to say, “Effective immediately, (Squadron Aviation Resource Management) offices will no longer identify female crew

members on flight authorizations.”

The removal of the designation was not an overnight accomplishment, but rather the product of the work of many airmen from the lowest level.

Stenstad first reached out to Majs. Kelsey Payton and Jennifer Walters, as well as other members of Reach Athena, the Air Mobility Command women’s initiative team. Although supportive of the idea, Payton advised Stenstad to collect more research and

anecdotes about the code’s potential negative effects.

“I was a bit disappointed,” Stenstad said. “I personally felt that the need for the change was pretty apparent. But I understood where they were coming from.”

During a 437th Airlift Wing women’s mentoring group in November 2021 at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, members discussed various topics, to include the G-code. From there, progress began.

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leadership across the 437th Operations Group, they discussed how to make the change and break through the bureaucracy. The change began with a waiver, requesting to remove the code instead of changing the entire Air Force Instruction.

In January 2022, Air Mobility Command approved the waiver specifically for the 437th Air Wing, whose aircrew then flew hundreds of missions without it. The wing reported zero negative impacts to the mission.

Staff Sgt. Dawn Weber/U.S. Air Force file

Lt. Col. Nicole Stenstad, 16th Airlift Squadron commander.

Air Force 2024 budget proposal invests in modernization, transformation

Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force unveiled a $259.3 billion budget request Monday designed to continue modernizing the Air Force and Space Force to meet evolving threats while also nourishing current needs that include training, readiness, and fostering new technology.

Broken apart, the $259.3 billion proposal that Congress will now consider for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 includes $215.1 billion for the Air Force and $30 billion for the Space Force. If enacted into law as proposed, the department’s overall budget would grow by $9.3 billion beyond last year’s enacted budget.

The increase is necessary, Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, to continue modernizing and transforming both services to meet an array of new threats from adversaries and challenges emanating from China as well as those from Russia, North Korea, Iran and

other nations.

The budget request includes notable increases for upgrading the ground-based nuclear deterrent know as Sentinel; increasing the number of military space launches to 15 from 10, which underscores the importance of space; and a $5 billion increase in research and develop necessary to bring “the force of the future” into reality. The proposed budget also accounts for inflation and rising fuels costs as well as boosting funds for recruiting and retention.

“We are united in our commitment to modernizing the Air and Space Forces and in achieving the transformation we must have to be competitive with our pacing challenge – China, China, China,” Kendall said, noting that the proposed budget marks a significant step in meeting that goal.

While the budget proposal is unlikely to be adopted without changes from Congress, the document represents the department’s priorities for maintaining the nation’s security and interests. Kendall

and other senior leaders acknowledged the request is the result of difficult tradeoffs but also reflects a consensus for how to achieve the department’s mission and the larger operational priorities of the Department of Defense.

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and modernize the way bases are arrayed and managed, the budget proposal includes a multitude of specific line items.

Among them are $4.8 billion in new funding for Kendall’s seven operational imperatives. That effort is the blueprint for modernizing and reshaping the Air and Space Forces to accelerate capabilities and position themselves more closely to meets the security threats – and adversaries – of today and in the future.

Underneath that effort is funding that modernizes the Air Force’s fighter fleet, adding 72 fighters (F-35s and F-15EX), another that provides early stage funding for the next generation of aerial refueling tankers, and funds for updating command and control functions, among others.

The budget proposal also:

n Includes spending for further development of the new and next-in-line fighter aircraft known as “Next Generation Air Dominance” and its power plant known as Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion. See BUDGET Page 7

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n Pays attention to fiscal discipline by divesting platforms (310 aircraft) that “do not address our most concerning national security challenges.”

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n If approved as written, the budget proposal supplies a $1 billion increase to purchase 48 topof-the-line F-35 fighters, an increase of five over the previous fiscal year.

n It carries $3 billion to support ongoing development and production of the B-21 long-range bomber, which is scheduled to achieve its first flight this year. The B-21 will become the backbone of the Air Force’s longrange strike force.

continue developing and testing the Sentinel ground-based nuclear deterrent, and as well as $500 million for procurement. It also includes $1.1 billion for upgraded and resilient missile warning and tracking.

he said, adding the proposed budget balances those requirements for the nation’s newest military service.

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n The proposal would deliver $2.6 billion to the Space Force for 15 launches in the fiscal year, which is an increase of five launches.

n It designated $4.4 billion to

Echoing comments he made March 7 in a major address, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr. said the budget proposal is focused on delivering not only a more modern Air Force, but one that has the right combination of hardware, people and “capabilities.”

“We must make sure we have the right mix of capabilities and capacity as an Air Force and as a joint team to be successful,” Brown said.

Chief of Space Operations, Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, made a similar point.

“We must field combat-ready forces so the Space Force has the personnel, expertise, weapon systems and equipment required to protect U.S. interests in space,”

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The budget includes as well smaller, but still significant, increases for pilot training and for bonuses to increase chances that personnel performing critical and highly sought functions will remain in the service.

Taken as a whole, Kendall, Brown, Saltzman as well as other leaders say the budget proposal represents a significant moment in the services’ “essential transformation.” It also advances the operational imperatives driving the efforts.

Finally, senior leaders collectively warned that delay is dangerous and that “standing still is falling behind.” That is why each has beseeched Congress to complete the appropriations process on time to ensure “the Air Force and Space Force remain dominant.”

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“As airmen, we must think differently about what it means to fly, fight, and win. Because we know that our speed, agility, and lethality are exponential force multipliers to any global military operation. . . . Only through collaboration within and throughout will we succeed. We succeed through our teamwork with the joint force, allies and partners, and collaboration across the defense ecosystem. Allowing us to achieve the right mix of capabilities and capacity to ensure a prosperous future.”

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Brown offered some clear indications, with most building on, as expected, his operating blueprint known as Accelerate, Change or Lose and the seven “Operational Imperatives” authored by Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.

“We are bringing on the F-35 to be the cornerstone of our fighter fleet. . . . We’re bringing on the next generation of air dominance family of systems,” he said.

He mentioned the service is updating munitions, such as the Joint Advanced Tactical Missile.

He pointed out the development of the service’s newest bomber as well, the B-21 Raider, along with the similar development of the Sentinel ballistic missile, provides an update to the nuclear deterrent. These steps, he said, “ensure we can maintain two legs of the triad” that fall under the Air Force’s control. “For global strike, air power is the answer.”

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Brown used a poker analogy to explain the upgrades and doctrine, quoting Gen. George Kenney, who commanded Allied Air Forces in the Pacific from 1942 until 1954.

According to Kenny, “Air power is like poker: A secondbest hand is like none at all – it will cost you dough and win you nothing.”

“He was right,” Brown said. “We can’t afford to lose, and we can’t bluff our way into deterrence.”

Brown also highlighted another of his points – the need to balance capabilities and capacity. In foreshadowing the upcoming budget request, Brown said it is designed to allow the Air Force to buy aircraft at the right rate to ensure “capabilities and capacity” are matched to present-day and future threats.

“We are accelerating change across the Air Force’s core functions to develop the capability and capacity mix required to deter, and if necessary, to prevail,” he said.

Brown closed with a refrain he has been emphasizing since becoming the Air Force’s highest-ranking military officer – that even with the most sophisticated technology and practices, it is the drive and quality, innovation and dedication of the total force that makes the difference.

“Our airmen, joint teammates, industry partners, and our allies and partners all need to work together to make sure we get to the right answer,” he said. “In order to execute to a high standard, you can’t play for second place. You need to play to win.”

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the world,” Schafer said. “Participation in air shows, like this one, gives us the opportunity to highlight that our aerial refueling capabilities extend to all receiver-capable aircraft, which opens multiple doors for potential missions not only with our joint partners, but international allies as well.”

Upon departure from Avalon, the aircrew traveled in a formation with a KC-135 aircraft assigned to the 174th Air Refueling Squadron and a KC-46 aircraft assigned to the 344th Air Refueling Squadron at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas.

“These kinds of opportunities give aircrews the chance to demonstrate the capabilities of their aircraft as well as to network with other military from around the world,” Schafer said. “We presented ourselves and our mission well, and we look forward to more tanker training opportunities in the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility.”

During this mission, the KC-10 aircrew offloaded more than 135,000 pounds of fuel and transported more than 24,000 pounds of cargo and 25 passengers, showcasing rapid global mobility and reinforcing our relationship with the nation’s Indo-Pacific partners and allies.

Senior Airman Alexander Merchak/U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Force Capt. Jeffrey Schafer, 9th Air Refueling Squadron KC-10 Extender pilot and aircraft commander, flies over the Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility, Feb. 25.