EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – Air Force Maj. Scott Karl, a 909th Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 instructor pilot assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan, checks the status of a Roll-On Beyond-Line-of-Sight Enhancement system on a KC-135T Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., May 9, 2017, during NORTHERN EDGE 2017 (NE17), over the Joint Pacific-Alaska Range Complex. NE17 is Alaska’s premier joint training exercise designed to practice operations, techniques and procedures as well as enhance interoperability among the services. Thousands of participants from all the services, Airm


EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – Air Force Maj. Scott Karl, a 909th Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 instructor pilot assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan, checks the status of a Roll-On Beyond-Line-of-Sight Enhancement system on a KC-135T Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., May 9, 2017, during NORTHERN EDGE 2017 (NE17), over the Joint Pacific-Alaska Range Complex. NE17 is Alaska’s premier joint training exercise designed to practice operations, techniques and procedures as well as enhance interoperability among the services. Thousands of participants from all the services, Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen from active duty, Reserve and National Guard units are involved.


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