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Manas Airmen build bonds with Bishkek Babushkas

Captain Jamie Fanning (standing) gives Vera Wolf a new scarf while Kyrgyz translator Janyl Sabirova and Maj. Glenn Donnelly look on during a lunch visit with Manas Air Base Outreach Society members at a Turkish restaurant in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, March 9. Vera is known as a Babushka, or elderly woman, in Russian and Kyrgyz cultures. The 78-year-old woman has no family and was ?adopted,? along with two other elderly women, by MABOS through the Babushka Adoption Foundation, a local non-governmental organization. Each lady?s monthly income averages about 700 som or around $20 per month. Every month, volunteers from Manas join the ladies for lunch to share companionship, a little financial support and a small supply of groceries. Captain Fanning, Major Donnelly and Ms. Sabirova are assigned to the 376th Expeditionary Medical Group. Captain Fanning is a sexual assault response coordinator deployed from the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Major Donnelly is deployed from the 2nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Elizabeth Weinberg)

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