Answer: Yes.
I don't want this. I'm an Airman and I don't care where you get the aircraft, I want it to have Active Duty Airmen as Pilot, Co-pilot, Navigator and Boom operator. When the aircraft are on the ground I want them taken care of by Active Duty Airmen of the Air Force Speciality Codes needed to maintain the AIRCRAFT.
I know, lets outsouce it to the Chinese. I'll bet they'll do it much more cheaply and efficiently than any American ever could. Except in time of war.
Rent-A-Tanker
What A-380 debacle? It is a little behind schedule but lots of programs get that way. There is not 'debacle' with the 380 and if there was it would not effect the KC-30 bid. KC-30 might be dead meat for other reasons but that one is nonsense.
What does this story have to do with the airbus?
If Boeing hadn't started playing fast and loose with the law, this wouldn't even be an issue.