Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in running for new line of high-tech tanker aircraft

Glancing at the tail number of a long, gray tanker aircraft, Col. Laen D. August remarked, "I'm a pretty old fellow, but that airplane is at least a year older than I am because I was born in 1963." One week ago today, August was looking at a Cold War-era KC-135 Stratotanker on the ramp at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base for the base's largest launch of tanker aircraft in 20 years.

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