Airmen from the 190th Air Refueling Wing conduct preflight checks on a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 117th Air Refueling Squadron, Forbes Field Air National Guard Base, Kan., currently stationed at Kadena Air Base, Japan, March 10, 2022. The KC-135 can hold up to 200,000 pounds of fuel, which is pumped through the tanker’s flying boom and utilized mid-flight to refuel a variety of aircraft thus extending its global reach to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Yosselin Perla)