Staff Sgt. David Hendrickson, 92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electronics and environmental journeyman, halts a KC-135 Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., after it landed at Nellis AFB, Nev., during Red Flag 14-1 Jan. 30, 2014. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise that incorporates air, space and cyber forces as part of the blue forces and their adversaries, the red forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Veronica Montes)
Staff Sgt. Ryan Carlson, 92nd Maintenance Squadron fuel systems repair journeyman carries out the tail stand from a KC-135 Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., after it landed at Nellis AFB, Nev., during Red Flag 14-1 Jan. 30, 2014. Red Flag gives aircrew and air support operations service members from various airframes, military services and allied countries an opportunity to integrate and practice combat operations. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Staff Sgt. Veronica Montes)
Tech. Sgt. Michael Friend, 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, checks a gases and oxygen panel on a KC-135 Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., after it landed at Nellis AFB, Nev., during Red Flag 14-1 Jan. 30, 2014. Red Flag gives service members from the U.S. and allied countries an opportunity to experience realistic combat scenarios to prepare and train them in the event of future conflicts or war. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Veronica Montes)
Tech. Sgt. Mike Friend, 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron flying crew chief from McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., prepares the parking area for an incoming KC-135 Stratotanker while an HH-60 Pave Hawk from the 66th Rescue Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nev., hovers in the background here Jan 30, 2014. Friend is one of more than 3,200 military members currently participating in the combat exercise Red Flag 14-1. By providing realistic combat training in a contested, degraded and operationally limited environment, Red Flag 14-1 provides pilots with real-time combat scenarios and helps ground crews test their readiness capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Sutton/Released)
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