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View from a KC-135 tanker's refueler position of the aerial refueling of an Air Mobility Command's 63rd Military Airlift Wing's C-141 Starlifter. Exact Date Shot Unknown

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Air to air top view of an USAF's Air Mobility Command, C-141B Starlifter transport aircraft moving into refueling position behind a KC-10 Extender refueling aircraft. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Air to air top, three quarter front view of a Air Mobility Command's 63rd Military Airlift Wing's C-141 Starlifter inflight during a training mission. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Aerial view at dusk as USAF E-3B Sentry (AWACS) aircraft is refueled by a KC-135 refueling tanker. Exact Date Shot Unknown

An overhead front view of a KC-10A Extender aircraft as seen from the boom operator's position of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft

Air to air view from refueling KC-135 tanker of an Air Mobility Command's HC-130 Hercules being refueled. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A refueling specialist, in a KC-10 Extender aircraft refueling position, transfers fuel to a F-117 Stealth fighter. Exact Date Shot Unknown

View from a KC-135 tanker's refueler position of the aerial refueling of an Air Mobility Command's 63rd Military Airlift Wing's C-141 Starlifter. Exact Date Shot Unknown

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01/10/1986
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label_outline Explore Refueler, Military Airlift, Tsgt Bob Simons

An Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft refuels a C-141B Starlifter aircraft (as seen from the KC-10) during the return flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to Christchurch, New Zealand. The C-141 has just completed an airdrop during Operation Deep Freeze

STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Larry Alexander, Detachment 1, 17th Weather Squadron, uses a hygrometer to measure atmospheric water vapor content during Exercise SHADOW HAWK'87, a phase of BRIGHT STAR'87. The US Central Command exercise represents a Joint Chiefs

Corporal Leonard Rodriguez, USMC, (right) and Lance Corporal Andres Almaguer, USMC, (left), make adjustments on the Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engine. The Marines are in the process of swapping an engine on a Marine KC-130 Hercules at a forward operating base in the Operation ENDURING FREEDOM area of operations. Both are members of the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-352 (VMGR-352), Combined Task Force 58

Airmen from the 117th Air Refueling Wing conduct survival

An air-to-air left front view of a 36th Tactical Airlift Squadron C-130E Hercules aircraft

A boy wears the cranial of his father, U.S. Marine

Air Force officers and civilians cut the ribbon officially opening the new 437th Military Airlift Wing Headquarters building. From left to right: Major General (MGEN) Jack W. Sheppard, commander, 21st Air Force; Colonel (COL) James C. McCombs, commander, 437th Military Airlift Wing; Sergeant (SGT) David A. Ecton, noncommissioned officer-in-charge of wing command section; Senator Ernest F. Hollings, (Democrat-South Carolina); and retired Lieutenant General (LGEN) James C. Sherrill, former commander of the 437th Military Airlift Wing

Soldiers from Fort Lewis, Washington, prepare to board a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft that will return them to their base after nearly a month spent battling fires in Yellowstone National Park as part of a joint military/civilian effort

A United States Marine Corps C-130 Hercules aircraft from Marine Aerial Refueler/ Transport Squadron (VMGR) 352 pulls onto the tarmac at Wajir air field in Northern Kenya to execute a combat off-load during Operation NOBLE RESPONSE '98

US Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR) Sergeant John Marsh (left), and Corporal (CPL) Brian Woods (right), USMCR, both assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron Two Three Four (VMGR-234), examine the information on a customs declaration form after returning home at Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base (NAS, JRB), Fort Worth, Texas (TX), following a long deployment to Southwest Asia, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

STAFF SGT. Jeff W. Schmidt, 63rd Military Airlift Wing (MAW), checks aircraft arrival times on a list in the Military Airlift Command airlift control element facility. The 63rd MAW is transporting troops and equipment to the base from Fort Hood, Texas, during Purple Penny, a mobility exercise simulating a deployment to South Korea following an attack by North Korean forces

A C-130 Hercules aircraft takes off during Exercise Reforger '81

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view tanker refueler refueler position air mobility command air mobility command military airlift starlifter c 141 starlifter refueling military airlift transport aircraft technical sergeant high resolution tsgt bob simons exact date military aircraft 1980s aircrafts 1980 s us national archives kc 135