Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft based in the Central Command receives fuel from a Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker, during an early morning in-air refueling mission supporting Operation Octave Quartz with armed over-watch in Somolia, Jan. 12, 2020. The F-16s support to OOQ demonstrates the military's reach and power projection across vast distances to hold adversaries such as al-Shabaab at risk with flexible, precise and lethal force that is capable of rapidly responding anywhere on the globe. The mission of OOQ is to reposition Department of Defense personnel from So
Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft based in the Central Command receives fuel from a Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker, during an early morning in-air refueling mission supporting Operation Octave Quartz with armed over-watch in Somolia, Jan. 12, 2020. The F-16s support to OOQ demonstrates the military's reach and power projection across vast distances to hold adversaries such as al-Shabaab at risk with flexible, precise and lethal force that is capable of rapidly responding anywhere on the globe. The mission of OOQ is to reposition Department of Defense personnel from Somalia to other locations in East Africa.
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