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So at Fairchild Air Force Base , we're

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continuing to break down barriers to

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accelerate our agile combat employment

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and future warfighting capabilities As

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we continuously operated two KC 1 35

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for 72 hours conducting air refueling

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operations . We only landed the jets to

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refuel service the oil change crews for

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all three days . What goes into an

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enduring story is a huge amount of

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support from maintenance and logistics

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to catch fix refuel and launch the jets

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and the rapid timeline played the role

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of catching and launching the aircraft

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every time it needed it and just

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providing support for any problems that

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may have occurred while the sortie was

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taking place . So benefits from the

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maintenance side of the house is really

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looking at what we are able to

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accomplish and kind of pushing the

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boundaries , especially when it comes

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to refueling , an aircraft with running

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engines For the endurance mission . We

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played a vital role in refueling the

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plane so they could go back up and stay

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running for the 72 hours of the

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operation To reduce the amount of time

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they were on the ground . We did hot

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hot pit refueling , which is one engine

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or more will be running on the plane

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while we're refueling them . It was our

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first time doing two different aircraft

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at the same time on different spots .

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And then it was also our first time

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doing our 12 hot refuel . We connect

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this mission to improve our

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capabilities and ensure that KC-135

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can offer global reach in future fights .

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So it means to us that Fairchild is a

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supertanker wing is continuing to press

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the mission , continuing to improve ,

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set records , establish requirements

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and enable us to fight in the future

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work .