Deployed officer sets all-time record for flying hours in E-3 Sentry

Maj. Jon Williams, a mission crew commander for the 963rd Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron, sits for an interview with Master Sgt. Chance Babin, the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing public affairs specialist Sept. 5, 2011, at an air base in Southwest Asia. Williams reached 10,195 flying hours on the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, Sept. 5, setting the all-time record for hours flown since the aircraft became operational in the Air Force in 1977. Williams is deployed from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech Sgt. Patrick Mitchell)

Deployed officer sets all-time record for flying hours in E-3 Sentry

Maj. Jon Williams, a mission crew commander for the 963rd Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron, poses after his record-setting flight Sept. 5, 2011, at an air base in Southwest Asia. Williams reached 10,195 flying hours on the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, Sept. 5, setting the all-time record for hours flown since the aircraft became operational in the Air Force in 1977. Williams hails from Colorado but now calls Edmond, Okla., his home. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech Sgt. Patrick Mitchell)

Deployed officer sets all-time record for flying hours in E-3 Sentry

A flightline crew member at an air base in Southwest Asia marshals in the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, in which Maj. Jon Williams, a mission crew commander for the 963rd Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron, flew a record-setting flight. Williams reached 10,195 flying hours on the AWACS Sept. 5, 2011, setting the all-time record for hours flown since the aircraft became operational in the Air Force in 1977. Williams hails from Colorado but now calls Edmond, Okla., his home. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech Sgt. Patrick Mitchell)

Deployed crew performs ?unmanned? air refueling

Capt. Lindsey Bauer, aircraft commander, 1st Lt. Jen Carter, pilot, Staff Sgt. Lindy Campbell, boom operator and Staff Sgt. Sarah Lockley, flight engineer, from the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron in Southwest Asia, participate in an ?unmanned? aerial refueling mission in the KC-10 Extender, Aug. 2, 2011. The deployed environment admittedly is a mostly male world. For a day though, the deployed KC-10 crew made it an all-female day, as all four crew positions were held by females, truly making their mission "unmanned." This crew composition is rare because Lockley is the only female KC-10 flight engineer in the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Patrick Mitchell)

KC-10 flight engineer achieves 300 combat sorties

Tech. Sgt. Brian Bialobreski poses for a photo after completing his 300th combat sortie in the KC-10 at the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia, July 28, 2011. Bialobreski became a flight engineer in 2006. Since that time he has accumulated more than 2,500 combat flying hours and has completed 10 deployments. As a flight engineer, Bialobreski is responsible for monitoring aircraft systems and for routing fuel to the planes they are refueling. (U.S. Air Force photo/1st Lt. Gina Vaccaro McKeen

One Last Time

Col. Mark Danigole, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing vice commander, taxies in after completing his "fini-flight" with the wing in a KC-10. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Staff Sgt. Patrick Mitchell)