305th AMW celebrates a century of air mobility
U.S. Air Force Captain Brian Colitti, 305th AMW Operation Centennial Contact ground operations planner, watches as A KC-135 Stratotanker, eight KC-46A Pegasus’, and five C17 Globemaster III’s, perform an elephant walk before taking off to participate in Operation Centennial Contact at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., June 27, 2023. To commemorate the 100 year anniversary of aerial refueling, 26 Air Mobility Command bases from around the nation carried out air refueling demonstrations over the United States and overseas, showcasing that today’s U.S. Air Force is able to deliver unrivaled rapid global reach for U.S. forces and Allies and partners through the Mobility Air Forces fleet of KC-46, KC-135 and KC-10 tankers.