Air Force Col. Brian Bowman, commander of the 914th Airlift Wing, Air Force Reserve, explains to Kathleen Hochul, lieutenant governor of New York, on how the midair refueling process works from the boom operator’s pit of a KC-135R Stratotanker, Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, , Feb. 2, 2017. The 914th AW unveiled it’s first KC-135R during a ceremony here as it undergoes a conversion to an air refueling wing after providing airlift support for more than 50 years.

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