Manley deployed in Afghanistan, will miss Frankfort soccer

Dwayne Manley won't be with his Frankfort-Schuyler boys varsity soccer team this year.

The 39-year-old Frankfort resident has four-and-one-half months remaining on a National Guard deployment in Afghanistan. Manley is a staff sargeant in the 27th Brigade Combat Team out of Syracuse. He deployed in January and will likely be back by the end of December, according to his wife Nicole. Manley is located in the area of Kabul, the capital, and his work includes mentoring the Afghan National Army.

Manley joined the National Guard in January 1993.

"Being over here for any length of time gives you an insight on how other people live their day-to-day lives, and how even the smallest of items, like a box of crayones to a young child, brightens their day in such a way that makes you truly feel good about what we're trying to do here," Manley wrote in an e-mail.