U.S Air Force Airman 1st Class Garrett Peirce talks with the pilots while flying on a KC-135 Stratotanker over Afghanistan, Dec. 29, 2015. Peirce is a boom operator assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, deployed from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Corey Hook