Air Force Senior Airman Charles Bolles, right, a crew chief with the 35th Aircraft Maintenance Unit from Misawa Air Base, and Masato Ohchi, hot pit operator at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, conduct hot pit refueling on a Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, May 8, 2017. Hot pits are refueling stations usually used in combat to rapidly refuel aircraft while the engines are running. This allows aircraft to return to the fight with minimal delay.

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