STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Dundrae Lakes, USAF, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Civil Engineering Squadron (AEW CES), Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, reads a valentine during breakfast at the base dining facility. Valentines delivered to the troops by General (GEN) and Mrs. Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of STAFF (CJCS), during their visit to the Air Base. 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...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Dundrae Lakes, USAF, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Civil Engineering Squadron (AEW CES), Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, reads a valentine during breakfast at the base dining facility. Valentines delivered to the troops by General (GEN) and Mrs. Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of STAFF (CJCS), during their visit to the Air Base. 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.
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
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