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The view from the "boombox" where Lakeland High School students and staff were invited to watch a KC-135 refuel a P-8 while in the air, before returning to Fairchild Air Force Base April 26.

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During a roughly 3 hour flight from Fairchild Air Force Base, Lakeland High School students had full range of a KC-135 plane to do whatever they wanted, and watched as air guard pilots refueled a plane from inside the “boombox”, where they were close enough to see the patches on the other pilots’ uniforms.