
U.S. Air Force plans have called for moving four more KC-135 tankers by the end of September to Eielson AFB, Alaska under the 168th Wing, and a service official said on Wednesday that such plans are in the works. Regarding "contested logistics" in a possible confrontation with China or Russia, Sen. Daniel Sullivan (R-Alaska) said that "the Air Force with its tanker fleet is particularly challenged." "I think that one [of the four KC-135s] has already been moved to Eielson,…