A Japan Air Self Defense Force F-15 fighter waits for airborne refueling from a KC-135R Tanker (not shown) of US Airforce 909th Air Refuelling Squadron, based in Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Southern Japan, during a Joint US and Japan air refuelling training over the East China Sea on April. 21, 2005.
PHOTO: Itsuo Inouye/AP/File
