SMSgt. Anthony Trenga, an airman with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard recently accrued 10,000 flying hours in a KC-135 refueler, a rare feat accomplished while deployed with his KC-135 crewmembers of the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron in Southwest Asia.
Fresh off its most ambitious test yet of an autonomous cargo plane, the Air Force is preparing to go even bigger by deploying and operating another such aircraft for an entire year.