The US participated for the first time in the European Air Transport Commands' (EATC) European Air Refuelling Training (EART) this year, which began on 8 April. EART 2018, taking place at Eindhoven Air Base, the Netherlands, is focused on multinational Air-to-Air Refuelling operations specializing in providing challenging training for air and maintenance crews from Allied nations. During this combined activity, fighters jets from nine NATO Allies, as well as NATO’s E-3A Early Warning and Control are refuelled by the four tankers.

EATC is a multinational command of seven member Nations (the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain), established at Eindhoven Air Base in 2010.