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An EA-6B Prowler, with Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2), the “Death Jesters,” stationed out of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., pulls away from a KC-130J Marines tanker after picking up a fresh load of fuel Thursday morning over the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range during a Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) exercise. VMAQ-2 is an electronic warfare squadron consisting of EA-6B Prowler jets. The KC-130J is an extended range tanker transport aircraft modified for aerial refueling of aircraft equipped with an IFR (in flight refueling) probe. The KC-130J is attached to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 (VMGR-252), also out of Cherry Point. WTI is currently under way at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Craig Fitzhugh (right), who pilots a KC-130J extended range tanker transport aircraft, talks Thursday morning on the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, shortly before taking off on an aerial refueling exercise over the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range. U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Craig Fitzhugh (left in photo bottom left) and First Lt. Ryan Wilkins fly the KC-130J extended range tanker transport aircraft Thursday morning over the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range during the exercise. A U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J extended range tanker transport aircraft sits on the flight line Thursday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma (bottom right) shortly before leaving for an aerial refueling exercise over the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range.