Airman 1st Class Ronnie Echavarria, a 351st Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker boom operator, starts his mission paperwork before an air refueling training mission Nov. 12, 2010, at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England. The crew of the KC-135 participated in the refueling training mission along with a C-17 Globemaster III from the Heavy Airlift Wing at Papa Air Base, Hungary. Boom operators at RAF Mildenhall rarely get the opportunity to refuel heavy aircraft.


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