Air Force Capt. Jaymes Trimbe, 50th Air Refueling Squadron pilot, walks on the flight line during the 6th Air Refueling Wing’s Agile Combat Employment capstone exercise at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Aug. 23, 2022. The ACE concept underpins the Air Force’s ability to mitigate the risks of adversarial technological advances through maneuverability and speed to prevail in conflict. The capstone exercise included 72-hours of continuous air refueling operations and a historic 56-hour KC-135 flight in a simulated contested environment focused on a notional theater of operations.

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