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Monday, December 16, 2013

KC-135 tankers remain workhorses of the Air Force

KC-135 StratotankerAn hour and a half into the training flight, high over eastern Kansas, it was time for Staff Sgt. Jameson Liggett to make his move. He got up from the cockpit, marched 30 paces to the back of the hulking airplane and lay down on the job.

For a moment, all stretched out prone near a small window, he looked like he was praying, but his head was propped up by an enforced chin rest. His hands were folded together to keep warm, near a panel of old gauges and a control stick.

“Can you kick up the heat back here?” Liggett, 28, asked through the radio, settling into his work station as a boom operator on a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker.

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