KC-10 Extender: Flightline review
Maj. Brian Hood, deployed with the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, checks on flightline operations as he walks past a KC-10 Extender at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia in Feb. 10, 2010. Major Hood is deployed from 32nd Air Refueling Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., and the KC-10 is from Travis Air Force Base, Calif. The 908th EARS is a part of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing and the KC-10s assigned to the wing fly combat air refueling missions in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The KC-10 is the Air Force's largest tanker and in 2009, aircraft assigned to the 908th EARS flew more than 4,700 combat missions offloading more than 422 million pounds of fuel to more than 31,400 aircraft. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol/Released)