Refueling Air Refuelers

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Airman 1st Class Stuart Brennan from the 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron checks his gauges while he uses a "dead man" to refuel a KC-10 Extender here. This is a device that the fuels Airmen use to ensure there is a constant flow maintained during refueling. Airman Brennan has to grip the "dead man" and release it within 90 seconds continually throughout the refueling process. The average fuel transfer rate is 600 gallons per minute. Airman Brennan is deployed from the 20th LRS, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., his hometown is Westerly, R.I. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Christopher A. Campbell) (released)

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Airman 1st Class Richard Fails from the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron monitors the rate of fuel going into a KC-10 Extender here. The average fuel transfer rate is 600 gallons per minute. The KC-10s out of the 380th provide fuel to different types of aircraft in the area of responsibility in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. Airman Fails is deployed from the 660th AMXS, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., his hometown is Annapolis, Md. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Christopher A. Campbell) (released)

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Airman 1st Class Stuart Brennan from the 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron checks his gauges while he uses a "dead man" to refuel a KC-10 Extender here. This is a device that the fuels Airmen use to ensure there is a constant flow maintained during refueling. Airman Brennan has to grip the "dead man" and release it within 90 seconds continually throughout the refueling process. The average fuel transfer rate is 600 gallons per minute. Airman Brennan is deployed from the 20th LRS, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., his hometown is Westerly, R.I. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Christopher A. Campbell) (released)