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Local Air Refueling Wing Mobilizing

About 500 Personnel Activated

POSTED: 11:00 am EST March 18, 2003
UPDATED: 3:17 pm EST March 19, 2003

The Pennsylvania Air National Guard's 171st Air Refueling Wing will be mobilized, with more than half its members deployed to the Middle East.

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The unit is based in Findlay Township near Pittsburgh International Airport.

Many of the 171st's 20 KC-135 Stratotankers also will be deployed, said wing commander, Brig. Gen. William Boardley. The first left for the Middle East last night. Others will depart today and tomorrow.

Each KC-135, a militarized version of the Boeing 707, weighs 115,000 pounds and can carry 185,000 pounds of fuel, enough to refuel an entire squadron of F-16 fighters. The KC-135 is capable of refueling all the types of military aircraft coalition forces will be using in the gulf, from B-1 bombers to the Harrier jump jets the Marines and Royal Air Force will be flying.

The reservists will serve for up to a year.


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