Lt. Gen. Mike Hostage, commander, U.S. Air Forces Central Command, Southwest Asia, assists an elderly man with trying on his new coat at the Leninsk Retirement Home in Bishkek Oct. 20. Airmen from the Transit Center visit the elderly as part of a team to assess the needs of the facility. Gen. 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.