DLA News Archive

Tag: construciton

Sept. 19, 2017

Civil engineers make critical runway repairs, keep missions moving

SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Air Force website — Maintaining an airfield is never an easy task, especially when it’s one of the busiest in the U.S. Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility.

Team leader Sgt. Eric Dubard (standing, blue helmet) supervises his Soldiers as they smooth the newly poured concrete for a grenade bunker at Arapaho Range.

July 7, 2017

643rd 'Wolfpack' Engineers Go to the Range but Build Instead of Shoot

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Pacific Command website — Nearly every unit in Korea spends time at the Multi-purpose Range Complex. While for most units that time means qualifying on their weapons, for the Vertical Platoon of the 643rd Engineer Support Company their two weeks at the range meant construction.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Robert Mcintosh, 8th Civil Engineering Squadron pavement and construction journeyman, pushes gravel into a crater using a loader June 23, 2017, Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. The 8th Civil Engineering Squadron participated in airfield damage repair training as part of the final Exercise Silver Flag training held at Kunsan. U.S. Air Forces Pacific will now focus on ensuring Airmen have their three-year Silver Flag currency, prior to arriving on the Korean Peninsula, instead of conducting the training here.

June 29, 2017

Pacific Air Force Consolidates Silver Flag Training at Andersen

KUNSAN AIR BASE — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Pacific Command website — U.S. Air Force Airmen of the 554th Red Horse Squadron assigned to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, trained members of the 8th Civil Engineering Squadron on airfield damage repair and force bed down June 19-23, 2017, as part of Exercise Silver Flag at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea.