Seabee cleans Taqaddum airstrip

Seaman Devin Ahearn, of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, uses a pressure washer to clean out the grooves of a pad of freshly placed concrete on a runway at Camp Taqaddum. After several years of work completed by numerous battalions, the 50-person detachment from NMCB-1 will likely complete an overhaul of one of the camp's runways later this year, which will finally bring the airfield back to full strength. NMCB-1 is deployed to several locations in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Micronesia providing responsive military construction support to U.S. Military operations. NMCB-1 is part of nearly 1,100 Sailors and Marines supporting critical construction efforts in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq.