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Air Force Airman 1st Class Nicholas Sowder flies on a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft over the Arabian Sea, Jan. 27, 2016. Sowder is a boom operator assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, deployed from the 351st Air Refueling Squadron in RAF Mildenhall, England. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Corey Hook

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Air Force Airman 1st Class Nicholas Sowder flies on a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft over the Arabian Sea, Jan. 27, 2016. Sowder is a boom operator assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, deployed from the 351st Air Refueling Squadron in RAF Mildenhall, England. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Corey Hook

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