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Delaware Air National Guard five ship formation C-130 aircraft tactical airdrop Aug. 3, 2013 covering four states. This is the first such five ship formation mission since June 7, 2008. The mission covered Del., Pa., Md. and N.J., with two airdrops over the Coyle Field Drop Zone in the Pine Barrens of Southern N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Tech. Sgt. Robin Meredith)

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Delaware Air National Guard five ship formation C-130 aircraft tactical airdrop Aug. 3, 2013 covering four states. This is the first such five ship formation mission since June 7, 2008. The mission covered Del., Pa., Md. and N.J., with two airdrops over the Coyle Field Drop Zone in the Pine Barrens of Southern N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Tech. Sgt. Robin Meredith)

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Delaware Air National Guard five ship formation C-130 aircraft tactical airdrop Aug. 3, 2013 covering four states. This is the first such five ship formation mission since June 7, 2008. The mission covered Del., Pa., Md. and N.J., with two airdrops over the Coyle Field Drop Zone in the Pine Barrens of Southern N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Tech. Sgt. Robin Meredith)

Delaware Air National Guard five ship formation C-130 aircraft tactical airdrop Aug. 3, 2013 covering four states. This is the first such five ship formation mission since June 7, 2008. The mission covered Del., Pa., Md. and N.J., with two airdrops over the Coyle Field Drop Zone in the Pine Barrens of Southern N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Tech. Sgt. Robin Meredith)

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Hurrucane Hunters mop up for Dorian

Members of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Hurricane Hunters began flying through Tropical Storm Bertha July 31, 2014, over the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Hunter aircrews and other 403rd Wing members deploy to several locations in the United States and Pacific and Atlantic Oceans to fly storm missions during the hurricane season, which officially starts June 1 and ends November 30 each year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ryan Labadens)

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Deployed maintainers return damaged aircraft to combat operations

Airmen forward deployed from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing assist in a crash damage reclamation and demilitarization project of a C-130J Super Hercules July 3, 2013, at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. The team recovered 250 components totaling more than $20 million.

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Deployed maintainers return damaged aircraft to combat operations

Airmen forward deployed from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing assist in a crash damage reclamation and demilitarization project of a C-130J Super Hercules July 1, 2013, at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. The team recovered 250 components totaling more than $20 million.

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Bagram air assets save 60 Army members

A HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter assigned to the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron takes off from Bagram Airfield, June 22, 2013. Recently a HH-60's and two 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt aircraft worked together during a mission saving 60 U.S. Army members lives. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade)

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Joint F-35 "Lightning II" operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

An Air Force maintainer provides maintanance on the F-35 Lightning II fighter during operations June 20, 2013, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The F-35 will be used by the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and other partner nations.

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Joint F-35 "Lightning II" operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

Staff Sgt. Danny Pereira provides maintanance on the F-35 Lightning II during operations June 20, 2013, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The F-35 will be used by the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and other partner nations.

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Joint F-35 "Lightning II" operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

An Air Force F-35 Lightning II taxies for take off during flight operations June 20, 2013, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The F-35 will be used by the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and other partner nations.

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F-35 Lightning II

Two new Air Force variants of the F-35 Lightning II taxi in to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., for the first time June 5, 2013. The 33rd Fighter Wing received the F-35A Lightning II jets bringing the total to 12 Air Force joint strike fighters. Including the Marine Corps variant of the F-35 based here, the training fleet grew to 25 F-35A and F-35B joint strike fighters. The Navy F-35C variant is slated to arrive in the coming weeks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nicholas Egebrecht)

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F-35 Lightning II

Maintainers from the 33rd Fighter Wing put the chocks on one of two new F-35A Lightning II fighters received at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., June 5, 2013. Including the Marine Corps variant of the F-35 based here, the training fleet grew to 25 F-35A and F-35B joint strike fighters. The Navy F-35C variant is slated to arrive in the coming weeks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nicholas Egebrecht)

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On top of the ‘Globe’

Tech. Sgt. Andrew Gravett walks along the top of a C-17 Globemaster III while wearing a safety harness as he does a routine maintenance check of the aircraft June 4, 2013, at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. The first C-17 to enter the Air Force’s inventory arrived at Charleston Air Force Base in June 1993. The C-17 is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases or directly to forward bases in the deployment area. Gravett is a crew chief assigned to the 437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Dennis Sloan)

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F-35A first in-flight missile launch

An F-35A conventional take-off and landing aircraft completed the first in-flight missile launch of an AIM-120 over the Point Mugu Sea test range on June 5, 2013. (Courtesy F-35 Program Office)

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F-35B Lightning II

F-35B maintainers perform "hot" refueling of an F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter at Eglin Air Force Base Fla., on May 22, 2013. In the year since the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 flew its first F-35B mission at Eglin's 33d Fighter Wing, it's pilots have flown 833 local sorties and logged more than 1,100 flight hours. They also developed procedures for refueling the F-35B with the engine "hot" or running. Eglin is the heart of F-35 training worldwide for the Air Force, Marines, Navy and international partner operators and maintainers of the Lightning II. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Karen Roganov)

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F-35B

Marine maintainers and an Airman fuels journeyman perform “hot” refueling of an F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter at Eglin Air Force Base Fla., May 22, 2013. Cpl. Julian Morales; Sgt. Robert Coates; Sgt. Sean Fagan and Airman First Class Benjamin Nutt are one of a two-station team of trucks and maintainers that refueled four jets to complete eight sorties in about three hours. Eglin is the heart of F-35 training worldwide for the Air Force, Marines, Navy and international partner operators and maintainers of the Lightning II. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Karen Roganov)

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F-35B

Marine Sgt. Robert Coates, an F-35B Lightning II maintainer, gives the thumbs up to Marine Capt. David Corkill piloting the joint strike fighter that he is cleared safe to resume his flying mission after hot refueling the aircraft. The F-35B and pilot were able to conduct a second training sortie after a quick ground refuel during the one-year anniversary of F-35B flying at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Eglin is the heart of F-35 training worldwide for the Air Force, Marines, Navy and international partner operators and maintainers of the Lightning II. U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Karen Roganov)

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Aircrew and pararescuemen with the 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron perform preflight inspections on medical equipment onboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter May 25, 2013, at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Scott Saldukas)

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KC-46A

Graphic by Corey Parrish

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Standing ready for flight

A U.S. Marine Corps plane captain, known as a crew chief in the Air Force, marshals out an F-35B Lightning II short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the aircraft May 22, 2013, at Eglin Air Force Base. The maintainer orchestrated a "hot pit" ground refueling, running the engine while receiving fuel, allowing it to take off immediately afterward for another training sortie. Assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501, the plane captain helped train up 24 U.S. and United Kingdom pilots flying the B variant to date by having aircraft ready for the daily flight operations.

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