Air Force Senior Airman Kylie Strawser, 50th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, secures a Roll-On Beyond-Line-Of-Sight Enhancement (ROBE) in place in preparation for Exercise Mobility Guardian 2021, on a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, May, 13, 2021. ROBE, developed by Northrop Grumman in 2003, is a certified communications system that provides a seamless and secure distribution of information to warfighters, local commanders and higher headquarters.

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