Nebraska National Guard airmen aid 'miracle' rescue of fishermen in Pacific Ocean
Steve Liewer Mar 26, 2021 Updated Mar 27, 2021
Chief Master Sgt. Jeffrey Van Nortwick lay on his belly near the tail of the KC-135 jet, his eyes bleary after 3½ hours of watching ocean waves zoom by 2,000 feet below.
He normally operates the refueling boom on the Nebraska Air National Guard Stratotanker, dispensing fuel in midair to U.S. military warplanes.
But late on the morning of March 13, Van Nortwick, 52, and five other Air National Guard crew members were scouring the western Pacific Ocean about 600 miles south of Guam for any sign of a 23-foot fishing skiff with five people on board. It had been missing for three days from Chuuk Island, in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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