Staff Sgt. Shawna Sims, a 92nd Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker boom operator from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., connects with an F-22 Raptor fighter during aerial refueling on the way to exercise Amalgam Dart 15-2 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, May 27, 2015, over British Columbia, Canada. The exercise spanned two forward operating locations in Canada’s Northwest Territory, two Air Force bases in Alaska and a mobile radar site in Resolute, Nunavut, as well as, the skies over much of the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s area of responsibility. Staff Sgt. Benjamin

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Staff Sgt. Shawna Sims, a 92nd Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker boom operator from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., connects with an F-22 Raptor fighter during aerial refueling on the way to exercise Amalgam Dart 15-2 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, May 27, 2015, over British Columbia, Canada. The exercise spanned two forward operating locations in Canada’s Northwest Territory, two Air Force bases in Alaska and a mobile radar site in Resolute, Nunavut, as well as, the skies over much of the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s area of responsibility. Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton)

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