Operation Candy Drop
SOUTHWEST ASIA - Tech. Sgt. Eric Knorr, USCENTAF Band, Hot Brass, band leader, accepts a box of candy and toys from Col. Steven Arquiette, Combined Air Operations Center, and Lt. Col. Lenora Cook, Dec. 15 at Southwest Asia air base. Sergeant Knorr and the other band members will distribute to children and troops throughout the Southwest Asia theater as the band tours the theater. The box is part of 500 pounds of candy and toys that was sent from people at Travis AFB, Calif., as part of Operation Candy Drop. Both colonels are deployed from Travis AFB, Calif. The band members of Hot Brass are deployed from Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. (U. S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Douglas Olsen)