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Tanker’s first flight over top of the world marks new era in efficiency

Senior Airman Justin Holbrook, a KC-135 boom operator, checks a KC-135’s position over the Arctic Circle using a satellite navigation device June 22, 2011. Airman Holbrook deployed from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., with fellow tanker crew members along a historic, more efficient route from Moses Lake, Wash., over the North Pole and through Russia to the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Capt. Kathleen Ferrero)

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