A Airman from the 190th Air Refueling Wing conducts preflight checks on a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 117th Air Refueling Squadron, Forbes Field Air National Guard Base, Kansas, currently stationed at Kadena Air Base, Japan, March 4, 2022. The KC-135 can hold up to 200,000 pounds of fuel, which is pumped through the tanker’s flying boom and utilized mid-flight to refuel a variety of aircraft thus extending its global reach to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific.

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Keywords: -3, -35a, aerial, boom, ii, kc-135, lightning, operator, pilot, refueling, sentry, stratotanker