Mission: Readiness
Col. Brian Newberry, retired Air Force colonel, visits the children at the ECEAP program at the YWCA in Spokane, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. To honor Veterans Day, Mission: Readiness, a program bringing together military officers to make presentations to children, invited the former commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base to read to children and hand out flags.
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Col. Brian Newberry, retired Air Force colonel, reads a children's book about the flag of the United States to the children at the ECEAP program at the YWCA in Spokane, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. To honor Veterans Day, Mission: Readiness, a program bringing together military officers to make presentations to children, invited the former commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base to read to children and hand out flags.
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Col. Brian Newberry, left, a retired Air Force colonel, holds a children's book about having a parent deployed oversease while Kristin Wiggins, right, reads to the children at the ECEAP program at the YWCA in Spokane, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. To honor Veterans Day, Wiggins, the director of Mission: Readiness, a program bringing retired military officers to make presentations in schools, invited the former commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing to read to children and hand out flags.
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Children at the YWCA preschool program wave flags they received from visitors Brian Newberry, left, and Kristin Wiggins (not seen) who came to the class to read books about patriotic topics in honor of Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Newberry is a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force and former commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base. Wiggins is director of Mission: Readiness, a program that brings retired military officers to schools.
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Col. Brian Newberry, left, a retired Air Force colonel, holds a gift from preschools, including Atheena Kolath, right, while Kristin Wiggins, center, thanks the children at the ECEAP program at the YWCA in Spokane, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. To honor Veterans Day, Wiggins, the director of a program bringing retired military officers into schools, invited the former commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing to read to children and hand out flags. Newberry is now the executive director of Leadership Spokane.
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Col. Brian Newberry, left, a retired Air Force colonel, demonstrates a military saolute before he and Kristin Wiggins, right, leave the ECEAP preschool program at the YWCA in Spokane, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. To honor Veterans Day, Wiggins, the director of Mission: Readiness, a program bringing retired military officers to make presentations in schools, invited the former commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing to read to children and hand out flags. The children made posters for Col. Newberry and Wiggins.
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