Maintaining the mission

Tech. Sgt. John Cotton, 403rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, marshals a fuel truck up to a WC-130J to prepare the aircraft for its next mission. The aircraft, flown by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, returned from a weather reconnaissance mission into Tropical Storm Guillermo Aug. 5, 2015. The maintainers, along with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, assigned to the 403rd Wing at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, deployed to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii to track Hurricanes Guillermo and Hilda. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Marnee A.C. Losurdo)