Mrs. Mary Jo Myers, wife of General (GEN) Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of STAFF (CJCS), presents Brigadier General (BGEN) Christopher Kelly, Commander, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) with valentines to present to his troops. Mrs. Myers and General Myers visited the troops at Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Elementary school children throughout the United States made the Valentines for the deployed troops. The base is named in honor of a New York City Fire CHIEF killed after he took 50 firemen to safety before the second tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapsed. Ganci died upholding the same creed the military follows leave no man behind
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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base
State: Chuskaya Oblast
Country: Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Jerry A. King, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
19/02/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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