Editing Boeing C-32 (section)

===Role===
The 45-seat C-32B Gatekeeper<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2014|title=Air National Guard 2014 Weapons System Modernization Priorities|url=https://www.nationalguard.mil/Leadership/Joint-Staff/Personal-Staff/Legislative-Liaison/Important-Documents/FileId/60892/ |website=[[United States Air National Guard]]|page=ii}}</ref> provides airlift to the U.S. government's Gate Keeper (GK) mission, a [[special access program]] which provides clandestine support to foreign states through State Department [[Foreign Emergency Support Team]] missions and classified special operations and intelligence missions.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 8, 2020|title=Air National Guard Military Vacancy Announcement|url=https://www.ang.af.mil/Portals/77/documents/careers/Officer-MVAs/2020-083%20Gate%20Keeper%20Air%20Operations%20%20Requirements%20Officer%20Maj%20AFSOC.pdf?ver=2020-04-08-225852-533|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720152641/https://www.ang.af.mil/Portals/77/documents/careers/Officer-MVAs/2020-083%20Gate%20Keeper%20Air%20Operations%20%20Requirements%20Officer%20Maj%20AFSOC.pdf?ver=2020-04-08-225852-533|archive-date=July 20, 2021|website=[[United States Air National Guard]]}}</ref><ref name="b622">{{Cite book |last=Birtles |first=Philip |title=Airliner Color History: Boeing 757 |publisher=[[Zenith Press]] |date=June 1, 2001 |isbn=978-0760311233 |language=En |page=62}}</ref><ref name="C32B2">{{cite web|title=Boeing C-32B - USAF Special Operations|url=http://www.americanspecialops.com/usaf-special-operations/aircraft/boeing-c-32b/|access-date=19 March 2021|website=www.americanspecialops.com}}</ref> The aircraft are operated by two different units, the [[New Jersey Air National Guard|New Jersey]] Air National Guard's [[150th Special Operations Squadron]] at [[Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst|Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst]], New Jersey, and the [[486th Flight Test Squadron]] at [[Eglin Air Force Base]], Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|title=COL. JOHN M. COSGROVE|url=https://www.108thwing.ang.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1426149/col-john-m-cosgrove/|access-date=2021-07-20|website=[[United States Air National Guard]]|language=en-US|archive-date=July 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720155508/https://www.108thwing.ang.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1426149/col-john-m-cosgrove/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=United States General Accounting Office |title=Combating terrorism interagency framework and agency programs to address the overseas threat. |date=2003 |publisher=DIANE Publishing |isbn=978-1-4289-3944-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxK_V93uXakC&pg=PA197 |page=197 |language=en}}</ref> The C-32Bs operate at the direction of the Commander of [[United States Special Operations Command|U.S. Special Operations Command]], though when serving a civilian agency, approval for the use of the aircraft is on the recommendation of the committee of [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense|Deputy Secretaries of Defense]] with the consent of the [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]].{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} The development of the two aircraft emerged from the 2001 Air Force budget, where they were procured for $144.963 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=144963000|start_year=2001}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to fill an Air Force request for transportation capabilities for the [[Foreign Emergency Support Team|Foreign]] and [[Domestic Emergency Support Team|Domestic]] Emergency Support Teams.<ref name=":2" /> The Gate Keeper mission predates the aircraft, which are successors to previous fleets based on other models of aircraft. The planes have been spotted throughout the world, including such locations as [[Area 51]] and the [[Tonopah Test Range]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Rogoway|first=Tyler|date=October 9, 2020|title=Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport Had A Mysteriously Busy Week In September|url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36968/secretive-tonopah-test-range-airport-had-a-mysteriously-busy-week-in-september |access-date=2020-10-25|website=The Drive}}</ref> The C-32B became known during the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush administration]] for unsubstantiated theories which circulated that they were connected to the CIA's [[extraordinary rendition]] flights, giving them the onetime nickname “torture taxi.”<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rogoway|first=Tyler|date=May 19, 2011|title=Have you ever seen a 757 air to air refuel? YOU HAVE NOW!|url=http://aviationintel.com/have-you-ever-seen-a-757-air-to-air-refuel-you-have-now/|access-date=2021-07-16|website=Aviation Intel|language=en-US|archive-date=July 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717000842/http://aviationintel.com/have-you-ever-seen-a-757-air-to-air-refuel-you-have-now/|url-status=dead}}</ref>