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.
The U.S. military is maintaining a beefed-up presence in the Middle East, including fighters and air defense assets, following the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities June 22 and subsequent retaliation by the Iranians against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
