Deployment provides Airmen chance to make lasting relationships

Airmen from Manas Air Base, Kyrgyz Republic, share traditional Pacific Island songs and dances with a group of more than 100 Kyrgyz children during the Pacific Island Cultural Day of Sharing Aug. 20 in the village of Jeny Pahkta. Members of the 376th Air Expeditionary Force Support Squadron has sponsored the Kyrygz village for six years, donating clothes and painting and cleaning the local school. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Alison Osborn)

Deployment provides Airmen chance to make lasting relationships

Airmen from Manas Air Base, Kyrgyz Republic, share traditional Pacific Island songs and dances with a group of more than 100 Kyrgyz children in the village of Jeny Pahkta, Aug. 20. Members of the 376th Air Expeditionary Force Support Squadron has sponsored the Kyrygz village for six years, donating clothes and painting and cleaning the local school. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Alison Osborn)

Boom operator

Senior Master Sgt. Steve Cid listen to a preflight crew briefing before flying an air refueling mission Thursday, April 20, 2006 at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Sergeant Cid is a boom operator with the Hawaii Air National Guard's 203rd Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

Central operations

Tech. Sgt. Cesar Abinsay works on some diagnostic specimens Wednesday, April 19, 2006. Sergeant Abinsay runs the day-to-day logistics at central operations for the Air Force Institute for Operational Health at Brooks City-Base, Texas. The institute receives specimens from more than 300 Department of Defense global facilities. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Larry A. Simmons)

Chief PA

Lt. Col. Tracey Saiki looks over current events with Capt. Yvonne Levardi and Senior Master Sgt. Charles Ramey on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at Kenny Warfighting Headquarters at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The Airmen are public affairs specialists for KHQ and are responsible for telling the headquarters' story through media and community relations events. They are also involved with the strategic communications key themes and messages as part of information operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

Chief PA

Lt. Col. Tracey Saiki is the chief of public affairs at Kenny Warfighting Headquarters at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Colonel Saiki is responsible for telling the KHQ story through media and community relations events. She is also involved with the strategic communications key themes and messages as part of information operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)