Why Did The USAF Decide To Retire The KC-10 Extender?

One of the Renaissance-era seer Nostradamus’s (or Michel de Nostredame’s if you prefer) famous predictions was “The young lion will overcome the older one.” Believers in the validity of Nostradamus’s predictions have interpreted that as a prediction of the death of King Henry II of France, who died in a jousting tournament when a younger opponent hit his face and caused a massive wound.