Destination Manas
From Dec. 10 through Dec. 17, 2016, I traveled with tanker crews deploying from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. to the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan to cover base operations. Manas was set to close within months as the war in Afghanistan drew to a close. These photos were shot for a Pacific Northwest Inlander assignment. This was also the first time my Instagram photos taken from an iPhone were used in print .
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376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Vice-Commander Colonel John Vaughn walks by a memorial dedicated to Peter Ganci, the senior most New York City Fire Department officer who perished in the attacks on 9/11, at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. The transit center was originally named for Ganci but due to federal law, a military base could not be named after a civilian. (Young Kwak/The Pacific Northwest Inlander)
