Airman 1st Class Jenny Proctor receives instructions from Staff Sgt. Alan Champagne on how to operate a KC-135 Stratotanker boom over Kyrgyzstan during an incentive flight July 22, 2011. Proctor is a member of the 376th Logistics Readiness Squadron commander’s support staff. She is deployed to the Transit Center at Manas from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Champagne is a boom operator assigned to the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron. He is deployed here from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Hank Hoegan)

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A 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron aircrew pilots a KC-135 Stratotanker over a Kyrgyzstan mountain range July 22, 2011. The Transit Center at Manas’ KC-135s provide aerial refueling to aircraft supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. This aircrew and KC-135 are deployed to the Transit Center from the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Hank Hoegan)

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1st Lt. Tyler Voss co-pilots a KC-135 Stratotanker over a Kyrgyzstan mountain range July 22, 2011. Voss is a pilot assigned to the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron at the Transit Center at Manas. He is deployed here from the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Hank Hoegan)

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Staff Sgt. Adrian Perez poses for a photo during a KC-135 Stratotanker incentive flight over Kyrgyzstan July 22, 2011. Perez is a 376th Logistics Readiness Squadron supply warehouse supervisor. He is deployed to the Transit Center at Manas from Hurlburt Field, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Hank Hoegan)

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Staff Sgt. Alan Champagne performs an inflight function check on a new KC-135 Stratotanker boom to ensure it works properly while flying over Kyrgyzstan July 22, 2011. Champagne is a boom operator assigned to the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron at the Transit Center at Manas. He is deployed here from the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Hank Hoegan)

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A group of award winners and star performers from the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, pose for a photo with a 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron aircrew before receiving an incentive flight in a KC-135 Stratotanker July 22, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Hank Hoegan)

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Transit Center star performers earn KC-135 incentive flight

Published July 23, 2011