Technical Sergeant Lavern Pieper, from the 31st RED HORSE Flight, Camp Darby, Italy, replaces parts on an air compressor. The 31st RED HORSE Flight provides a highly mobile civil engineer response force to support contingency and special operations worldwide. The primary mission is to set-up field and contingency operations to support large-scale missions. Activities include heavy damage repair, barebase development and heavy engineering operations. The 31st RED HORSE Flight possess special capabilities, such as water-well drilling, explosive demolition, quarry operations, concrete mobile operations, material testing, expedient facility erection, and concrete and asphalt paving
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Camp Darby, Livorno
State: Toscana
Country: Italy (ITA)
Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Dennis Henry
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
14/06/2001
Source
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