Staff Sgt. Jason Flowers, 2nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory technician, looks through a refractometer to measure the amount of icing inhibitor that is inside the fuel sample on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., June 18, 2014. Water inside the fuel will freeze at high altitudes inside the B-52H Stratofortress fuel systems, to avoid this, an icing inhibitor is placed inside the fuel. Flowers was ensuring the correct amount of the inhibitor was inside the fuel he was testing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Gonsier)
Staff Sgt. Jason Flowers, 2nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory technician, places a membrane filter on a bottling assembly at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., June 18, 2014. Fuel is poured through the membrane filter, leaving particles inside the fuel on the filter. Technicians will measure the weight of the membrane filter before the process and after to check the difference in weight. A large difference indicates the fuel has too much particles inside of it. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Gonsier)
Staff Sgt. Jason Flowers, 2nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory technician, pours a fuel sample into a bottling assembly to test the sample for particles on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., June 18, 2014. The assembly creates a vacuum seal in the flask pulling the fuel through a membrane filter leaving behind particles for analysis. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Gonsier)
Staff Sgt. Jason Flowers, 2nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory technician, checks the differential pressure gauge on an R-11 fuel truck at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., June 18, 2014. As fuel is being transferred through the filter, the differential pressure gauge will show the difference in pressure before and after it is transferred through the filter. A large difference indicates that the filters are either clogged up or the fuel has too many particles inside of it. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Gonsier)
Staff Sgt. Jason Flowers, 2nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory technician, passes fuel through an inline sampler to an aeronautical engineering laboratory pad on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., June 18, 2014. The AEL pad tests for the amount of water inside a fuel sample. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Gonsier)