31st Fighter Wing executes Rapid Buzzard
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jayson Lyons (left), 435th Contingency Response Squadron readiness and training flight chief, and Staff Sgt. Ian Hargan (right), 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron fire truck and refueling maintenance noncommissioned officer in charge, conduct “hot pit” refueling operations during exercise Rapid Buzzard Sept. 25, 2019, at Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Bulgaria. Refueling operations were conducted with the 435th Contingency Response Squadron and three C-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, which provided the fuel through rapid defuel operations from the C-130s into an R-11 fuel truck. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Savannah L. Waters)