Civil engineering airmen of the Kansas Air National Guard’s 184th Air Refueling Wing constructed 2,009 feet of fencing in Arizona along the border with Mexico during their two-week deployment to assist the Border Patrol. The Kansas City Star reports that the feat exceeded the work of seven previous National Guard civil engineering units.
The rate of building B-21 bombers would speed up if the fiscal 2026 defense budget passes. But it remains unclear how much capacity would be added, and whether the Air Force would simply build the bombers faster, or buy more.
