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.
Aircraft readiness will suffer if Congress does not approve some $1.5 billion worth of spare parts the Air Force requested in its annual Unfunded Priorities List, sent to Capitol Hill last week, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.