LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Tech. Sgt. Clifton Bond gives fuel from a 909th Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 to a F-22 Raptor over the Pacific Ocean Feb. 18 while en route to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, for the first-ever overseas deployment of the F-22.
Twelve F-22s from the 27th Fighter Squadron deployed to the base as part of the recent Air and Space Expeditionary Force rotation. Sergeant Bond is a boom operator with the 18th Operations Support Squadron at Kadena. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jeremy McGuffin)