USAFE Band returns to Belarus
From left, Senior Master Sgt. Vladimir Tchekan, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band’s Ambassadors Jazz Ensemble trombonist; Col. Michael Vandevelde, U.S. Army attaché to Kiev, and Vladimir, former Belarusian pilot, talk after a concert at the Friendship House June 20, 2016, in Minsk, Belarus. Vladimir talked of his dad on how he had been a POW during WWII and later liberated from the camp by soldiers in the U.S. Army. (U.S. Air Force photo/Technical Sgt. Paul Villanueva II)