Reporter Stephanie Heinatz with the Daily Press in Hampton Roads, Va. offers a glimpse into the style of Gen. Ron Keys, the boss of Air Combat Command, who is retiring this fall after more than 40 years service in this recent article. And Heinatz provides a spouse’s view in this companion piece on his wife Valerie.
More than 20 tankers lined the runway at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., on March 27, for an “elephant walk” and the base’s largest mass launch of aircraft ever. Sixteen KC-46s and five KC-135s participated in the flush, with aircraft and Airmen from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing and the 931st…