Colorado Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Alexander

Colorado Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Alexander Root-Davis provides Senior Airman Zachary Hohenstein, 140th Civil Engineering Squadron, guidance while digging out of view with a backhoe in a trench intended for a water line for a future home from the Innovative Readiness Training - Operation Footprint project in Gallup NM, July 11, 2013. IRT mission Operation Footprint is an Air National Guard led IRT multiservice mission comprised of active duty, reserve, and National Guard members from Army, Navy and Air Force components focusing on deployment and real-world readiness training preparing for wartime missions in a joint-service environment while simultaneously providing free civil engineering services to the Navajo communities in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. (Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Wolfram M. Stumpf/RELEASED)