Two United States Air Force F117 stealth fighters continue their fifteen hour nonstop flight to Kuwait in the Persian Gulf from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, as they leave a mid-air refueling rendezvous over the Atlantic Ocean 700 miles off of Bangor, Maine and 300 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, November 20. Eight stealth fighters were refueled by KC-10 tankers travelling with them to the Gulf after those tankers received fuel from three KC135 tankers flying out of Bangor. The US military continues to build its forces in the Gulf region despite indications of a diplomatic resolution to the Iraq crisis.