Thirty-eight Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing helped build homes for Cherokee veterans in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, May 15-29 as part of the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training program.,
19 Thanks to the vision of one local Airman, Selfridge Air National Guard Base is now home to one of the strangest B-Huts in the U.S. military.
The B-Hut, slang for a Barracks Hut, is a small building commonly seen on U.S. military installations in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The one at Selfridge is smaller than most and is made up of a variety of building materials and methods. It is being used as a training center for the 127th Civil Engineer Squadron s building trades personnel. It has been a vision of mine for several years, said Master Sgt. Dereck Leppek, a structures craftsman with the 127th CES. We built this use wooden and metal studs, prefabbed materials and rafters made from lumber - the idea was to incorporate different building methods so our Airmen would get exposed to multiple scenarios.
By Bo Joyner , Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command / Published June 04, 2021
A fire burns in an abandoned dormitory constructed of modified shipping containers March 13, 2021, in New Camp Brown, Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. The fire started when, as part of an exercise, a thermobaric grenade was tossed into the building.
Firefighters spray water into in an abandoned dormitory constructed of modified shipping containers March 13, 2021, in New Camp Brown, Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. The Quick Strike Team – a 12-person team, half of whom deployed from the 442d Civil Engineer Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. – arrived on the scene three minutes after the fire was reported and were awarded the Army Achievement Medal for their actions.
By Bo Joyner , Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command / Published June 04, 2021
A fire burns in an abandoned dormitory constructed of modified shipping containers March 13, 2021, in New Camp Brown, Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. The fire started when, as part of an exercise, a thermobaric grenade was tossed into the building.
Firefighters spray water into in an abandoned dormitory constructed of modified shipping containers March 13, 2021, in New Camp Brown, Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. The Quick Strike Team – a 12-person team, half of whom deployed from the 442d Civil Engineer Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. – arrived on the scene three minutes after the fire was reported and were awarded the Army Achievement Medal for their actions.