Left, Airman 1st Class Charles Melendez and Senior Airman Cody Haynes tighten a protective cover on a KC-135 Stratotanker engine at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Nov. 8, 2012. The cover protects the engines from debris or foreign objects. Both

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Left, Airman 1st Class Charles Melendez and Senior Airman Cody Haynes tighten a protective cover on a KC-135 Stratotanker engine at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Nov. 8, 2012. The cover protects the engines from debris or foreign objects. Both Melendez and Haynes are 376th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs who are deployed from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Melendez is a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico and Haynes is a native of Woodbridge, Va.

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