121st Air Refueling Wing, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio, June 2018.
I don’t think this has anything to do with washing-up, but apparently the Airmen with 92nd Maintenance Group think break-dancing helps. Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington, January 2018.
Video interview, with funky music, 100th Maintenance Group washes KC-135, RAF Mildenhall in United Kingdom, 2017:
Washing the main-gear doors, 168th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Eielson AFB, Alaska, December 2017.
Kadena Air Base, Japan, 2016. The wash-rack (aka Bird-Bath, officially Aircraft Rinse System) takes 90 seconds to wash the salty sea air off the skin of the Stratotanker.
KC-135R passes through wash rack on Andersen AFB, Guam, 2014.
Hand washing KC-135R, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 2014.
Washing the front landing gear of a KC-135R.
According to the Altus AFB info, it takes eight hours to wash your KC-135.
Every 120 days KC-135 get a scrub-down.
Video explainer, washing KC-135 at McDill AFB, Florida, 2013:
EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.