I remember it was late December 2012 when the bulk of my unit was deploying to Kandahar. They had a lay over in either Manas or K2. Keep in mind that this is

I remember it was late December 2012 when the bulk of my unit was deploying to Kandahar. They had a lay over in either Manas or K2. Keep in mind that this is winter in Siberia and temperatures getting down to -30F at night. This unit was located in West Los Angeles so it was rare for many of these people to ever experience any kind of freezing weather. Due to political boots on ground limits some of us were instead routed to Kuwait and so I never saw K2 myself.