I'll go further and point out the altitude is medium, based on the photo and aircraft sizes. Those birds are likely just over 2 miles up...consistent with the AR envelope, peacetime. What's your ground elevation in the "photo setting?"
If it's a DC-10, you likely missed the drogue...which means it's a KC-10 and we're seeing a refueling operation. I cannot positively ID with this photo, however, I DID clip it, zoom and look at the poorly resolved lead aircraft...which DOES have a bulge at the back that might just be consistent with the V-stab-mounted third engine on the KC-10.
So that's my take. I've plugged the KC-10 many a time long ago, early '80s. Phantom Aircrew. Won't go more particular, since it's a very small pond.
In a "free" nation, why does "need" have ANYTHING to do with whether or not someone shoud be allowed to HAVE something...
...perhaps you'd explain to ME just why we "need" to have pot?
Oh...and you CAN "hunt" with AR's. That's a misnomer propagated (sigh, again) by anti-gun activists. I have friends who use AR's to "hunt" regularly, and LEGALLY, in the SW states. One is a predator-control contractor. He is paid to eliminate predators, skins them, distributes their skins among his tribal relatives (who process them), then trades them across the US and Canada to bring back the very best across several species to distribute among all the tribal nations.
So you really are just perpetuating the "anti-gun" narrative when you oppose ownership of Armalite Rifles among the civilian populace. We're all in this together, you know.
We aren't all would-be murderers just because we choose to own a firearm you disagree about. Why don't you take your place right where you truly ARE, and simply make YOUR case. The fact is, you haven't won the anti-gun argument, and you're just trolling to find excuses to hone your argument.
Most of the people I know are spread across a whole SPECTRUM from: scared-to-death (the musicians I play among weekly, for instance) because even if they aren't in a group that's suffering from "co-morbidities," either their spouse or parents are...through folks like my wife and I who've had the virus & got over it...all the way to people who may be like my wife and I (in that they've survived it) are FED UP with the incessant catastrophizing of the MSM-carried stories. I'd point out that many who come across as "flat-earthers" to the highly educated among us are just people who understand and yet are not as eloquent in their diction as they express their feelings.
Now I've just spent an inordinate amount of time weaving that tiny tapestry of two sentences together above. I'll get to the point. Many of us have lived through flu seasons that have killed more people than has COVID-19. The difference is nobody fanned the flames constantly to create public panic for the apparent purpose of driving people to spend money and QUIT THEIR JOBS (or their jobs quit THEM). The Leftists perpetrating this are clearly standing in the open and are being allowed to keep up their "game."
We just want the Left to SHUT UP and SIT THE BLANK DOWN, so we can go about our business and re-build society. But they will not. So expect push-back. One cannot (in simple honesty) avoid the realization that COVID is being used for political reasons.
By the way, BasedMedicalDoctor, congratulations on your accomplishment. Please do us a favor, however, and don't run with the leftist pack...be straight with us. Some of us CHOSE different paths than you chose, but are just as well educated and trained.
The same thing my wife (age 69) and I (age 64) got last November. We survived, and WERE NOT HOSPITALIZED. The fact that we recognize that the entire world is being HELD UP and BULLSHITTED doesn't make us "flat earthers," moron.
We will get no aid.
Our parents and grand parents rebuilt WWII-torn EARTH, and IMPOSED representative (that's what republican means, kiddies) constitutional governments upon the defeated AXIS-power governments...so that their people would never again be forced into uniform without a VOICE in whether or not their governments went to war.
But how many of your peers, children, grandchildren, and great-grand-children even KNOW what the Marshall Plan was?
Furthermore, how many of the same can explain the difference between a DEMOCRACY and a REPUBLIC...and tell you which is the correct form of the US Constitutionally-defined government?
I know this is a tough question, and I am a marine instead of an Army vet...but here goes: "How many GUYS pass the exam?"
I ask this because, now in my 60's, I (still) teach a form of combat karate. Last Saturday I attended an "away" class which included 5 of my fellow geezers (30's-70's) and three ranks of beginners-through intermediates of all ages from 11 up.
At the lunch all of us geezers went to afterward, the topic of "today's kids" came up. They cannot do push-ups at ALL when they start. At a point when we were (decades ago) at their level, we were able to do 10 "corrective" push-ups on our KNUCKLES pretty much ON DEMAND (whenever we hosed up something for the third time after being corrected twice. This inability includes the young men...not just the women.
THEN (and I won't e-ven) go to active duty...the topic of "making pain our friend" came up. Same status, different issue. I guess it's part of the push-up thing...two-knuckle pushups were NEVER without pain. Yet I have a young student who recently stated he wants to go SOC. I pointedly pulled him aside and explained he needs to step up his game. Not so much to achieve "this or that belt" before he goes SOC, but he needs to learn to accept and deal with pain, "on the move."
So when we say 84% of WOMEN don't pass an Army Combat test, how many of todays soy-boi GUYS pass it on their first try?
Do I want women in combat roles? Let me get back to you on that.
As Ross Perot said, "If you see a snake, you don't form a committee, you KILL IT!" While I loved that guy, voting for him was transformative in my life-attitude. I'd read Sun-tsu, but never understood it until WJC took America down this rat-hole.
Soon...they'll build a church of Greta next to it...and call it.....................wait..........................................................here it comes....................................................the................................................................................................Win-Chester Cathedral...........................
Well, my guess is that Blacks...see the writing on the Demokrat wall. That is, the Demokratz lie, and the BLACKS get left holding the bag. "[...whatever a Demokrat sez...] -ain't dat RIGHT, Mr. Fetchit??" Well, it'd piss ME off, so why shouldn't it piss off blacks?
They cannot be ignored....and yet...they ARE being ignored. Wishful thinking inhabits 9 out of 10 skulls. Of 100 people, 10 will follow ONLY LEGAL ORDERS to bring fire on human beings. Of those 100...only ONE will act of his own initiative to do the same...when the need to do so is clear.
...so the numbers, folks...are in favor of those who TAKE THE INITIATIVE. Joe is taking the initiative...he SAYS so. His predecessor (BHO) established "occupy," from which ranks were the ANTIFA & BLM operators picked.
...the SOC head in the Pentagon is taking SOC "woke." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSCSzqJcm9w
...there's been one CLEAR instance of a (during Biden's administration) red flag rehearsal: https://montanadailygazette.com/2021/03/15/feds-confiscate-guns-in-flathead-valley-with-30-vehicles-three-tanks-and-helicopter/
...but SLEEP ON, folks...all is well. Your cradle won't fall.
Given your location, and the headings being WSW, I'm saying you're looking at two aircraft heading for Hawaii, taking on fuel to ensure they've got sufficient reserve aloft to make an alternate airfield at end of flight.
Altitude...consistent, forward aircraft (although blurry) consistent w/KC-10 configuration, location/heading...consistent with above.
I'll put 85% on my probability of correct ID of the mission.