November 18th, 2011 at 4:04PM

This is a video taken in Hawaii of a boom operator refueling a C-17. I did the exact same thing yesterday on my first mission. It was an adventure and an amazing experience having such a large aircraft flying so close to me and actually reaching out with a boom and contacting it. 

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