Fill ‘er Up: Afghan Service Station

By Mark Thompson | @MarkThompson_DC | August 10, 2011 | +

An F-16 slurps fuel from a KC-135 tanker, somewhere over Afghanistan, July 30 / Air Force photo

A KC-135 Stratotanker deployed to the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, refuels an F-16 deployed from Aviano Air Base, Italy , July 30. This refuel was part of a mission that earned Maj. Joshua Brown, 22nd EARS pilot deployed from the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron at Fairchild AFB, his 18th oak leaf cluster for the Air Medal.

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