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Capt. Stephen Akins walks to his plane for a local refueling mission. The range of the KC-135 is 1,500 miles with 150,000 pounds of transfer fuel and can perform a ferry mission up to 11,015 miles. Akins is a KC-135 pilot with the 459th ARW.
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