The president’s latest defense budget request for 2023 would shrink and age America’s geriatric Air Force even further. This for a service that by automobile standards has more than a dozen fleets of aircraft that qualify for antique license plates.

Worse, the US Air Force “operates eight fleets exceeding an average age of 50 years, and one—the KC-135—now exceeds 60.”

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