EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chad Holloway, a 909th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan, secures a step ladder before a sortie on a KC-135T Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., May 9, 2017, during NORTHERN EDGE 2017 (NE17), at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. 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 Gua


EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chad Holloway, a 909th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan, secures a step ladder before a sortie on a KC-135T Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., May 9, 2017, during NORTHERN EDGE 2017 (NE17), at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. 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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