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Pallet Lavatories for KC-46 Encounter “Spillage”

Pallet Lavatories for KC-46 Encounter “Spillage”
U.S. Air Force Maj. Victoria McBride, Air Mobility Command KC-46 simulator certification pilot, Capt. Kristi Miner, 22nd Air Refueling Wing executive officer, and Capt. Michelle McMillen, 22nd Operations Group executive officer, perform pre-flight checks Jan. 22, at McConnell AFB, Kans. before the first all-female flight of the KC-46 tanker. As of Oct. 2020, only about 838 Air Force women served as pilots, according to Air Force Personnel Center officials (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While the U.S. Air Force and Boeing [BA] have embarked on a path to fix the four remaining Category 1 deficiencies of the KC-46 tanker, the latter now may have a waste problem, literally. "I understand there's an issue that I had not heard about with respect to the [KC-46] transportable galley lavatory system--essentially bathrooms--that make missions problematic," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) told Army Gen. Stephen Lyons, the commander of U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), at a Senate Armed Services Committee…

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