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Also boosting effectiveness are the 15 additional KC-135 Stratotankers to be sent to Europe next year, which permit more U.S. warplanes to stay aloft longer. Greater firepower. The two U.S. armored cavalry regiments stationed on the East German border have been replacing their aging Sheridan tanks with factory-fresh M60s. These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery...
...soon as the landing was confirmed, Operation Morning Light, as it was christened, was swiftly launched. The U.S. dispatched a high-flying U-2 and a large KC-135, both carrying radiation sensors, to check for high-altitude radiation in the Canadian wilderness. A 22-man Canadian nuclear-accident support team, equipped with radiation-proof suits and ready to collect any satellite debris on the ground, flew from Edmonton to Yellowknife. A 44-man team of U.S. military technicians arrived from Andrews Air Force Base and Nellis Air Force Base...
...week, shooing away the curious townspeople drawn by the steady roar of big jet engines. "The only other time you hear that much activity at night is when the reservists fly in," said Bob James, who owns a gas station near the end of the runway. As he spoke, KC-135 tanker jets labored off the runway, then banked right toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean. During the day, half a dozen blue-and-white Boeing 747s had shuttled in and out of the base...
...frenetic activity at Pease A.F.B. was part of a mammoth U.S. airlift to resupply the Israeli army. The KC-135 tankers, according to New Hampshire Representative Louis Wyman, were refueling U.S. aircraft en route to Israel over the Atlantic. The 747s, owned by El Al, were ferrying bombs, ammunition and spare parts to Israel. Similar scenes took place at airbases in Europe as well as the U.S. Among them was Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where arms were loaded aboard C-5A transports. These scenes were probably also taking place at airports in Eastern Europe...
...looked like a routine flight home from Southeast Asia with a stop at Hickam Field, Hawaii, before the final leg to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Aboard the KC-135 were 64 passengers, many of them G.I.s, and two military coffins. Suddenly, the plane was ordered to reroute slightly and land at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. There federal authorities, acting on a tip that 20 kilos of heroin were aboard, virtually took the transport apart. They did not find any drugs, but they did discover that one of the two bodies, which had undergone autopsy earlier...