Air Force Tech. Sgt. Phillip Hilmes, a fuel specialist with the 126th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, monitors jet fuel as it is loaded onto a KC-135 Stratotanker during the first ever hot refuel of a KC-135 in Eastern Europe, Aug. 11, 2021, at the 33rd Powidz Airlift Base, Republic of Poland. A hot refuel provides a faster turnaround so the KC-135 can return to the air to refuel more jets.

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