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Welcome aboard! Get ready! It's time to get some gas.

Today, we are in the cockpit of an EA-18G Growler, tanking off the mighty KC-135 Stratotanker somewhere over the northern Arabian Gulf. Behold the Iron Maiden!

You will see that once my probe is connected to the Iron Maiden, I have to push the hose up to make a "U" shape to take gas. The easy part is getting it in. The hard part is keeping it there.

The sun was also a factor in this evolution. Even with my visor down, it's difficult to look into the sun and hold your position while in a turn in the basket. Just had to do some of that pilot stuff.

Thanks for the gas, fellas! Enjoy your runways and per diem.

Fly Navy!

Chapters:
0:00 Stern Conversion
0:56 Contact
1:54 Iron Maiden Discussion
4:17 Tanking in a Turn Techniques
8:25 KC-135 History
9:51: Probe vs. Drogue Discussion
10:45 Blinded by the Light
11:15 Offload Complete

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