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 Civil Engineers Airman Fist Class Michael Mills, left, and Senior Airman Andrew Camerly demonstrate how to rip wood, at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. These members of the expeditionary unit's home unit is the 92nd Civil Engineers at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (Young Kwak/The Pacific Northwest Inlander)
