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USAF Winnows Finalists for Seventh KC-46 Main Operating Base

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USAF Winnows Finalists for Seventh KC-46 Main Operating Base
New Hampshire Gov. Christopher Sununu addresses the 157th Air Refueling Wing and the 64th Air Refueling Squadron during a pre-deployment ceremony on Sept. 8th at Pease Air National Guard Base, N.H. The unit's KC-46A Pegasus tankers are to go to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility this fall in what is to be the KC-46's maiden operational deployment (Air National Guard Photo)

Scott AFB, Ill., and Mississippi's Key Field are among the finalists as the seventh main operating base for the U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus tanker by Boeing [BA]. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that Scott AFB's bid would add 94 126th Air Refueling Wing Air National Guard personnel to the 347 sustaining the KC-135 Stratotanker at the base.…

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