Word: kc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli: the first of more than 5,500 Army and Marine troops landed in Honduras last week to begin months of deadly serious war games, and 550 Air Force personnel arrived in the Sudan with eight F-15 fighters, two KC-10A tankers and a pair of AWACS radar planes prepared to track Libya's Soviet-made jets bombing Chad (see WORLD). Whatever the arguments about its prospects in one place or another, the new expansiveness is being questioned on practical grounds: U.S. forces could be spread too thin...
...happy here." Ride clearly was. She enjoyed flights in NASA's two-seat T-38 trainers so much that she went on to get her private pilot's license. She threw herself enthusiastically into parachute training, scuba diving and even stomach-churning flights aboard a NASA KC-135 transport, whose high-speed arcs gave the Ascans a brief, exhilarating taste of weightlessness...
Fuel. As part of a routine agreement, the U.S. sent 1.5 million gal. of aviation fuel to the joint U.S.-British airbase at Ascension Island. It also made KC-135 aerial tankers available to Britain, but these were never sent to the South Atlantic. Instead, the Royal Air Force used its own KC-135s for midair refueling of Vulcan bombers making the 3,800-mile trip from Ascension to the Falklands, while U.S. planes in Europe were reassigned to British NATO duties...
...over Argentina's 42 Mirage and Dagger fighters and 64 Skyhawk bombers based on the mainland. An additional 18 Harriers, most of which had arrived in the Falklands battle area last week, would not be enough to make up the difference. The British reportedly asked Washington for a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft for in-flight refueling...
...core of the Argentine air force and navy consists of old, but updated and well-maintained American-made planes and ships. The air force has 68 versatile A-4P Skyhawk attack aircraft. In addition, Argentina has 14 A-4Q navy Skyhawks; seven C-130 transports; two KC-130 tankers; and some 20 Hughes and Bell helicopters. The navy's only cruiser, the General Belgrano, was commissioned in 1939 and bought from the U.S. in 1951 for $7.8 million. Six Argentine destroyers are U.S.-built World War II vintage vessels fitted with French-built surface-to-surface missiles. The navy...