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The move is aimed at reinforcing NATO’s eastern flank, the Air Force said.

U.S.-based tanker aircraft began working at their new primary location in Poland, March 10, as part of a U.S. Air Forces in Europe activity called Copper Arrow, demonstrating U.S. European Command’s efforts to bolster security on NATO’s eastern flank with,

US forces are for the first time being permanently stationed in Poland, with Copper Arrow's aerial tankers bolstering Nato's eastern flank.

32 The first aircrew to support U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa Operation Copper Arrow 2021 executed refueling capabilities from a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, April 16. The aircrew, assigned to the 190th Air Refueling Wing, Kansas Air National Guard, was the first in a rotation of ANG and Air Force Reserve Command tanker crew to participate in the operation to provide increased air refueling capacity to the European theater. After completing mission briefs and pre-flight checks, the 190th ARW tanker crew departed Ramstein to carr...