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Fairchild Air Force Base

Let there be lights!

Senior Airman Travis Barfield adjusts the star on a tree in front of the base chapel Nov. 28, 2012, in preparation for the annual wing tree lighting ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Barfield is a 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron electrician. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dennis Ayres)

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Senior Airmen Travis Barfield and Jason Ardans place lights on a tree in front of the base chapel Nov. 28, 2012, in preparation for the annual wing tree lighting ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Barfield and Ardans are 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron electricians. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dennis Ayres)

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Shondel Rohn and Senior Airman Ryan Elliot untangle lights for a tree in front of the base chapel Nov. 28, 2012, in preparation for the annual wing tree lighting ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Rohn is an electrical systems technician and Elliot is an electrician both with the 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dennis Ayres)

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Students from Michael Anderson Elementary School sing Christmas carols at the base tree lighting ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Dec. 3, 2012. Members of Fairchild gather to officially start the holiday season by watching the tree lighting ceremony at the base chapel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Taylor Curry)

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Santa Claus arrives at the base tree lighting ceremony on the 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron fire department engine seven at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Dec. 3, 2012. Members of Fairchild gather to officially start the holiday season by watching the tree lighting ceremony at the base chapel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Taylor Curry)

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Col. Brian Newberry, 92nd Air Refueling Wing commander, his son’s Mark and Matthew, Nick Snider and Charles Logan, sons of deployed Fairchild Airmen, push the switch to turn on the lights to the base Christmas tree at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Dec. 3, 2012. Members of Fairchild gather to officially start the holiday season by watching the tree lighting ceremony at the base chapel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Taylor Curry)

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Members of Fairchild gather to see the base Christmas tree lighting in front of the chapel at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Dec. 3, 2012. This Fairchild tradition marks the start of the holiday season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Taylor Curry)

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Let there be lights!

Published Dec. 6, 2012
By 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Members of Fairchild gathered outside the chapel Dec. 3 to witness the base Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

Santa Claus arrived on the 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron fire department engine seven, and Col. Brian Newberry, 92nd Air Refueling Wing commander, pushed the switch to light the tree.

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