A Day with the 514th Air Mobility Wing

Rutherford High School Class of 1967

One of Steve Reenstra's staff has been on active duty with the Air Force Reserve for the past three years. On October 22, 2011, Steve attended the 514th Air Mobility Wing's Employer Appreciation Day at McGuire Air Force Base and participated in a mock deployment and an orientation flight aboard a KC-10 Extender tanker flight to observe an in-flight refueling mission over the Atlantic.

The mission's KC-10 Extender tanker aircraft.

Walking through an empty cargo bay to the refueling station & boom at the KC-10 tanker's rear.

Aircraft approaches KC-10 tanker for refueling.

View sitting in the seat next to the refueling boom's operator as refueling is about to start.

The KC-10 cockpit during the mission somewhere over the Atlantic.

C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft at McGuire.

C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircarft from the rear.

Steve about to enter the belly of the beast.

Mostly empty, part of the cargo bay on the right side is set up with a medical station.

One of three medical stations set up for demonstration purposes.

Yours truly...

Too tall for the pilot's seat, I was assigned to mission security manning a gun atop a humvee.