Air Force Senior Airman Reinaldo Brown, talks with Technical Sgt. Nathan Smart, both boom operators assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron Detachment 1, before conducting a refueling mission on Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, Jan. 23, 2018. A boom operator is an aircrew member aboard a refueling aircraft responsible for safely and effectively refueling other aircraft during flight.

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