Deployed maintenance
Second Lt. Jonathan Sih opens a panel under a KC-135 Stratotanker while discussing maintenance with Staff Sgt. Jordan Clocher March 22, 2013. Both Airmen are assigned to the 100th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. Clocher is a Fayetteville, N.C., native, and Sih is a Carrollton, Texas, native. Airmen and aircraft deployed from the 100th Air Refueling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, England, to southwest Europe as the 351st Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron Jan. 26, 2013. In less than two months, the 351st EARS has completed more than 110 sorties supporting French fighter aircraft conducting operations in Mali. The sorties include more than 1,000 receiver contacts and more than 5 million pounds of fuel transferred. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Jason Smith)