Record-setting fuels flight keeps gas flowing at Manas
Senior Airman Grady Tunnell adjusts the throttle on the pump at fill station No. 1 in the fuel storage yard Nov. 27 at Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan. The pump is used to push fuel into the R-11 fuel trucks at a rate of 450 gallons per minute. It can take up to 30 minutes to fill the 5,800 gallon R-11. Airman Tunnell is assigned to the 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants Flight and deployed from the 60th LRS at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Mitch Gettle)
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