OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (AFPN) -- Airman 1st Class Robert Willis celebrated his 21st birthday in a rather unusual manner July 22 -- offloading 85,200 pounds of jet fuel at 27,500 feet to a B-52 Stratofortress bound for Afghanistan. It was merely another day at the “office” for the boom operator on the KC-135 Stratotanker air refueling aircraft. “It’s our job to get the gas to them where and when they need it,” said the Airman deployed to this forward-deployed location from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. He and a mixture of other Airmen from three stateside bases make up...
