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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Major Robert Mehan, of the 128th Maintenance Group, stationed out of Dobbins Air Reserve Base, in Georgia, waits to disembark a KC-135 at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, December 12, 2013. The flight originated out of Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., made a stop at RAF Lakenheath, England with its final destination at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan. (Young Kwak/The Pacific Northwest Inlander)
