Air Force 1st Lt. Nicholas Easter, 909th Air Refueling Squadron pilot, wears a COPE NORTH 18 patch while flying a refueling mission during exercise COPE NORTH 18 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 26. CN18 is a Pacific Air Forces sponsored tri-lateral field training exercise (FTX) designed to develop synergistic and increase interoperability of Air Forces, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and the Koku Jieitai (Japanese Air Self-Defense Force) ( Air Force

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