F-16 Pilots Give Cool Inflight Interviews During Air-to-Air Refueling

Name: F-16 Pilots Give Cool Inflight Interviews During Air-to-Air Refueling
Uploaded: 2025-04-14T07:50:54.628Z
Duration: 4 min 43 s
Channel: Cockpit Chronicles
Description: U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the 120th Fighter Squadron, Colorado Air National Guard, perform air-to-air refueling, and give interviews with a boom operator from a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to 171st Air Refueling Squadron, Michigan ANG, over the Baltic Sea.

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U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the 120th Fighter Squadron, Colorado Air National Guard, perform air-to-air refueling, and give interviews with a boom operator from a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to 171st Air Refueling Squadron, Michigan ANG, over the Baltic Sea.

Contact, loud and clear. Rolling up. Good flow. Tank is rolling up. Hey sir, how's it going? Going well, how about you guys? It's going great, be advised we have Colorado PA on the board. Okay, so I'm going to sail up. Can you verify your offload request, sir? Looking for a top off. Got it. Copy. Sail when able. Two-year, clear contact. Sail number is 86338. Contact. I got you. How you guys doing up there? We're doing great. I have a couple questions for you, sir. How does a flight with other countries like this one build partnerships and alliances? Every war is a partnership. We don't go to war by ourselves anymore, so any type of training we can do with anybody other than us is going to make it better for the overall team. Especially NATO, I think over here with working with all our NATO partners, I think it just makes friendship just better and our alliance better. Any training opportunity we get with these guys, we do it. How important is it to deploy and participate in exercises such as Saving Strait and partnership building and working on the turrets? If that's the only way we're going to do it, man, we've got to come out to the... We've got to deploy. We're all going to deploy as a team at some point. For us to get to come over here into their neck of the woods and learn their country and their procedure, that's pretty important for us as an overall team. Two-one. Jeep nine-one, machine disconnect. Five-point-two. One-two, you're off load. Five-point-two. Copy, five-two. Contact. You're clear. How's it going, sir? Good, man. How are you doing? It's going great. It's been a good one. Yeah, it's been a great one, man. I've enjoyed working with you guys for the past... We've been going on three weeks. Yeah, man. It's been good. It's been great having you guys here. It's made all these sorties a lot better for us. Yeah, I've enjoyed it a lot, man. It's pretty awesome when we all get to work together. Yeah. It's a great family to unite when we all travel together, so... Coming left. Tanker's coming left. Off load complete. Nine-one, machine disconnect. Thank you guys for accommodating us today. If you guys can go into formation off the back of the tailored aircraft. Yep, we're flowing there right now. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Radar one-one. Chief, nine-one, boom. You guys can go ahead and depart the area. Copy that. We'll descend low. We'll see you guys in about an hour. Copy. Thanks, man. Contact. Clear. Off load request, sir. How much gas you guys got? About 50k. We got 50k. I'll take 4k. How's that, sir? Okay, that's good. Nine-one, disconnect. Appreciate you being out here. Showing five. Boom. Red eye one-one. Check again. Chief, nine-one reads loud and clear. We're showing off load complete, sir. Alright, man. You guys have a good one. You too.