The Oklahoma Air National Guard’s 137th Airlift Wing in Oklahoma City is trading its C-130 tactical transports for KC-135 aerial refuelers, courtesy of BRAC 2005. The Norman Transcript reports that the 137th will join forces with Air Force Reserve Command’s 507th Air Refueling Wing at Tinker AFB, Okla., to share operation and maintenance of 12 KC-135s—becoming the first Total Force Integration association of the two air reserve components. It will take about two years for the 137th AW to totally switch from the C-130 to the KC-135, but the unit already has eight airmen in training for the tanker mission at Altus AFB, Okla.
The nominee to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency touted the value of the organizations’ dual-hat command structure and urged caution toward creating a dedicated cyber military service in written testimony to Congress released Jan. 15.
