Of all the Air Force's capabilities, air refueling is the one most regularly taken for granted. Everyone simply assumes the tanker will be there when needed. During one long day more than two decades ago, that assumption was put to the acid test. It was on this March 1986 flight that the crews of two Air Force KC-10 refuelers and eight Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk fighters nearly made unplanned landings in the Atlantic Ocean. It was a day on which the fuel nearly ran out.
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