A fleet of firefighting aircraft sits at the Santa Maria Public Airport where the state's extreme fire weather has led to an ...

President-elect Donald Trump has named Troy Meink, a former Air Force KC-135 tanker navigator and former deputy of the ...

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...

If confirmed, Troy Meink would inherit key decisions about the Air Force's fighter force and how to right-size the Space ...

President-elect Trump on Thursday named Troy Meink, a top spy chief who has previously served as a missile engineer, as his ...

(California Air National Guard/TMX) Once a load is discharged from a MAFFS-equipped aircraft, and the aircraft lands at a tanker base ... the Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing ...

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Meink, from Lemmon, S.D., entered the Air Force in 1988 through the college program Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) before becoming a KC-135 tanker navigator and then a lead test ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has named Troy Meink, a former Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft navigator and former deputy of the National Reconnaissance Office, as his choice to ...

Meink began his career as a KC-135 tanker navigator in 1988. He went on to hold a variety of roles across the Air Force’s space enterprise, serving as a chief technical advisor to the Air Force ...