March ARB members meet and greet with Santa and The Grinch

MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. — Air Force leaders, community partners and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials gathered at March Air Reserve Base Dec. 16 to mark the start of construction on a new KC-46 Pegasus maintenance and fuel hangar, a $133 million military construction project that will modernize infrastructure and support long-term mission readiness for the 452nd Air Mobility Wing. The groundbreaking ceremony was hosted by Lt. Col. Nate Chal, KC-46 Program Integration Office, who highlighted the significance of the project within the long history of tanker operations at March. “It has been almost half a century since a new tanker mission came to March,” Chal said. “This hangar represents an infrastructure...

12.16.2025 | MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, CALIFORNIA, US | Story by Senior Master Sgt. Wendy Day

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