Lt. Gen. Mike Hostage, Commander, U.S. Air Forces Central Command, Southwest Asia, visits with a patient at the Children's Cancer Center in Bishkek Oct. 20. Airmen from the Transit Center visit the children as part of a team to assess the needs of the facility. General Hostage visited the Transit Center and the local community and kicked off Operation Warm and Dry II which is a humanitarian assistance project designed to provide much-needed cold weather clothing for children and elderly adults in the Kyrgyz Republic, where the winters are extreme and the availability of home heating oil is uncertain.