KC-135 - Two deployed KC-135s get rare engine swaps

SOUTHWEST ASIA—Senior Airman Abby Hernandez reconnects components of a KC-135 Stratotanker engine that was just installed. KC-135 engines are very reliable and rarely have to be swapped. Airmen at a forward-deployed location recently had to replace an engine on two KC-135s in the span of about a week. Airman Hernandez is deployed with the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Bruce Hedrick)