{"id":67898,"date":"2016-09-11T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67898"},"modified":"2016-09-11T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T14:16:14","slug":"fuelers-get-hoyt-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67898","title":{"rendered":"Fuelers get Hoyt Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KC135<\/a><\/p>\n

Marine_7002 sends us a link to the story<\/a> of three crew members of a KC-135 aerial refueling tanker who earned the Hoyt Award, named for Brigadier General Ross G. Hoyt, who took part in experimental refueling flights in 1929. It’s given every year for outstanding service by an aerial-refueling crew among the 400 crews that do that dangerous job. Captains Benjamin Oatley and James Quon, and Master Sergeant Jarrett Crawford had just finished fueling some aircraft over Syria when they noticed an A-10 which had lost an engine;<\/p>\n

The three-person crew of a KC-135 tanker, from Scott Air Force Base, had just completed an in-air refueling when the ground-attack jet\u2019s left engine disintegrated.<\/p>\n

The tanker crew stayed within view of the A-10 at an unusually low altitude for more than an hour, arranged for escort from other fighters and supervised its safe landing at Al Asad in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n

That American-occupied forward base is north of Ramadi and, at the time, was within territory claimed by the Islamic State and subject to occasional attack. Air Force and Marines personnel repaired the Warthog, which was flown to a secure base five days later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t need to tell you how much guts it takes to fly a 31,000 gallon gas can over enemy air space at a low altitude, but these three did just that to help a fellow pilot get home that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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