Senior Airman Razmik Manoukian, 22nd Aircraft maintenance Squadron crew chief, performs after-flight checks on a KC-135 Stratotanker, 18th Air Refueling Squadron, during Vigilant Shield 15 at 5 Wing Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Oct. 24, 2014. VIGILANT SHIELD field training exercise is a bi-national NORAD Command exercise which provides realistic training and practice for American and Canadian forces in support of respective national strategy for North America’s defense. NORAD ensures U.S. and Canadian air sovereignty through a network of alert fighters, tankers, airborne early warning aircraft, and ground-based air defense assets cued by interagency and defense surveillance radars. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Justin Wright)