Tech. Sgt. Sebastian Adame, inflight refueler assigned to the 117th Air Refueling Squadron, Forbes Field Air National Guard Base, Kansas, conducts an air refueling mission for an E-3 Sentry from the 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, over the Indo-Pacific theater, March 4, 2022. The KC-135 Stratotanker 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