Some 25 British forward air controllers last month came to south Georgia for close air support familiarization training with A-10s from Moody Air Force Base. During Exercise Flying Rhino on Oct. 23, the British army and Royal Air Force controllers worked with pilots from Moody’s 74th Fighter Squadron and 75th FS, according to an Oct. 30 base release. The allies simulated combat conditions that they would expect to face while deployed. (Moody report by SSgt. Jamal D. Sutter)
The Air Force’s nascent KC-Z program, aimed at developing a next-generation family of systems for aerial refueling, will look to launch its analysis-of-alternatives study in 2024, years earlier than originally planned. Originally, the analysis of alternatives for KC-Z was set for “maybe in the 2030s,” Paul Waugh, program executive officer…