The combined 439th Civil Engineering Squadron and 439th Mission Support Group base civil engineering staff won the 2013 Air Force Outstanding Civil Engineer Unit. With more than 350 military and civilians on its combined team, CE oversees the infrastructure of the nations largest Air Force Reserve base, which includes $1.4 billion in assets and 5,500 people. Among its achievements, the CE community executed $33 million in airfield projects in FY 13, launched a $24 million Defense Logistics Agency Military Construction project to upgrade the 60-year old fuel hydrant system which will refuel C-5s four times faster, and guided the $5.5 million design and installation of the largest C-5 mobile tail enclosure - improving the maintenance work centers capabilities. Also, -Deployed 4/EOD; 5/Firefighters; 13/Prime BEEF to 4 contingency locations...Total Force support for OEF! - 1st Sgt deployed to 122 person 405 ECES...largest Sq in 405 AEG...Awd winning supt for our combat airmen - Hit the ground running! First 4 days of deployment--Heavy/Structures/PP stood up electrical grid in 64hrs; huge! - EOD backfilled MA SP bomb squad during Boston Marathon Bombing response...critical coverage maintained
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:23:45 +0000
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