Deployed Stratotanker gets all jacked up
Staff Sergeants Nicholas Carone and Tremain Knowles, 100th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, discuss the progress of lifting of a KC-135 Stratotanker on hydraulic jacks Feb. 5, 2013, at an air base in southwest Europe. Jacks allow maintainers to conduct tests involving raising and lowering the aircraft’s landing gear. Airmen from RAF Mildenhall, England, deployed to southwest Europe in January to support French operations in Mali. Carone is from Elk Grove, Calif., and Knowles is from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)