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U.S. Air Force 718th Maintenance Squadron crew chief SENIOR AIRMAN Robert Pilkington, inspects the refueling drogue on a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 12, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force 718th Maintenance Squadron crew chief TECH. SGT. Andrew Kyle (front) and SENIOR AIRMAN Robert Pilkington (back), conduct a preflight check on a KC-135 Stratotanker refueler aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 12, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force 718th Maintenance Squadron crew chief TECH. SGT. Andrew Kyle, marshalls a KC-135 Stratotanker refueler aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 12, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force 718th Maintenance Squadron crew chief TECH. SGT. Andrew Kyle, marshalls a KC-135 Stratotanker refueler aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 12, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft, 36th Airlift Squadron, and KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft, 909th Air Refueling Squadron, parked on the flightline during exercise Keen Sword 2005, at Yokota, Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 10, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force 374th Maintenance Squadron/isochronal section, engine specialists, AIRMAN 1ST Class Matthew McGonagle (left), and STAFF SGT. Philip Farnstrom, inspect a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft engine during an annual check at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Dec. 8, 2004. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S Air Force 18th Wing and the 374th Airlift Wing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft, K-135 Stratotanker refueler aircraft and F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft, sit on the flightline during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 10, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force crew chief STAFF SGT. Ricardo Santiago foreground, and loadmaster MASTER SGT. Robin Baird, background, conduct a pre-flight check on a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 11, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force 909th Air Refueling Squadron pilot CAPT. Daniel Bradford (front), and 718th Maintenance Squadron crew chief, TECH. SGT. Andrew Kyle (back), conduct a preflight check on a KC-135 Stratotanker refueler aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 12, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

U.S. Air Force 718th Maintenance Squadron crew chief SENIOR AIRMAN Robert Pilkington, conducts a pre-flight check on a KC-135 Stratotanker refueler aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 12, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

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Base: Yokota Air Base

Country: Japan (JPN)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Val Gempis

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air force crew maintenance squadron crew senior airman robert pilkington senior airman robert pilkington pre flight check pre flight check stratotanker refueler aircraft stratotanker refueler aircraft exercise exercise keen sword yokota yokota air base photo air force photo master master sgt val gempis val gempis sergeant us air force kc 135 stratotanker keen sword high resolution msgt val gempis kc 135 stratotanker refueler aircraft air force base us air force in japan maintenance squadron us national archives japan kc 135
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label_outline Explore Kc 135 Stratotanker Refueler Aircraft, Stratotanker Refueler Aircraft, Pre Flight Check

U.S. Air Force personnel prepare a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft, for an air drop during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 11, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Troy Drasher assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea makes final adjustments on the TER-9A Triple Ejector Rack mounted under the wing of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. The rack is loaded with MK-82 500-pound general-purpose bombs. The image is from the June 2000, AIRMAN Magazine article "A Year to Remember"

STAFF Sergeant John Chasse, 92d Aircraft Generation Squadron speaks to the aircraft commander during pre-flight checks for the first 92d Air Refueling Wing launch at March Air Reserve Base, California. The 92d Air Refueling Wing has relocated operations due to runway repairs at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington

A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft, 67th Fighter Squadron, takes off during exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Hyakuri Japanese Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 16, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

SENIOR AIRMAN Doug Patchin, 210th Air Refueling Squadron, with his winter hat, mask and gloves visible, secures a parachute harness. Patchin is part of the 34-member American Team at the first joint Russian and American exercise conducted since World War II. This search and rescue exercise took more than two years of planning

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Alvaro F. Fable, boom operator,

First Lieutenant Mary M. Livingston performs a pre-flight check on a T-38 aircraft prior to flying a training mission. She is one of the first women to enter an Undergraduate Pilot Training Program

U.S. Air Force Maj. David Anderson, 65th Aggressors

U.S. Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft maintenance personnel with the 319th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Grand Forks AFB , N.D., preparing to work on a KC-135 Stratotanker refueler aircraft at Phelps-Collins, ANGB, Alpine, Mich., during Exercise Crisis Outlook 2004, on Oct. 21, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Scott T. Sturkol) (RELEASED)

A replica of a Japanese Val Type 99 bomber aircraft flies during a re-enactment of World War II battles. The event is being staged by the Confederate Air Force, a private historical organization that restores and preserves World War II-era aircraft. The re-enactment is part of the Air Force Association's Gathering of Eagles '86, an international aerospace event celebrating the anniversaries of the Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command and the independent Air Force Association

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Alvaro F. Fable, boom operator,

U.S. Air Force 33rd Rescue Squadron crew chief SENIOR AIRMAN William Soares, watches an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter lift off during Operation Unified Assistance relief operations for tsunami victims in Dambula, Sri Lanka, on Jan. 18, 2005. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

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