Reporters experience flight aboard U.S. air tanker

Reporters experience flight aboard U.S. air tanker

IWAKUNI, Japan - Reporters experience a one-hour flight aboard a U.S. KC-130 aerial refueling plane at the U.S. Marine Corps' air station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2014. The aircraft has been redeployed from the Futenma air station in Ginowan in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

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