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The navigator, of the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft from the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron, checks the aircraft's position by using a sextant

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Base: Santa Cruz

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Raymond Downward

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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23/05/1980
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label_outline Explore Kc 135 Stratotanker Aircraft, Stratotanker Aircraft, Santa Cruz

Boom Operators point of view showing a US Air Force (USAF) B-2 Spirit aircraft approaching the refueling boom of a Alaskan Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft while conducting refueling operations during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 02. Northern Edge '02 is an annual joint training exercise held in Alaska designed to exercise joint operations techniques, procedures and enhance interoperability among the services

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Patrick Englishby, C-130

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Ray Sandoval, a loadmaster

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Chad Murray, 908th Expeditionary

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Capt. Andrew Powers, 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling

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A 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron pilot

An F-14A Tomcat aircraft from Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) falls in behind an Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft to conduct an aerial refueling while on a combat air patrol following the cease-fire between coalition and Iraqi forces. The aircraft is armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on the outboard portion of each wing pylon and an AIM-7 Sparrow missile on the inboard portion. VF-32 is based aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67)

Staff Sgt. Zack Caudill, loadmaster with the 164th

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