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Weather forecaster: looking for a break in the clouds.

On a miserable winter night at Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, Staff Sgt. Michael Ragsdale was working the graveyard shift.

Outside, a thick fog cut visibility to less than a quarter mile. The January 2008 temperatures averaged 30 degrees below normal, the country's coldest on record.

The cold weather wasn't all on his mind.

High overhead, a KC-135 Stratotanker circled, waiting to land. With fuel running low, the aircrew wanted to land their aging aircraft, which doesn't like cold weather.

At times like this it "can get intense," he said, while monitoring his radar. Then he walked outside to check the visibility.

Because the weather made it too dangerous to ...

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