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Air Force Engineers Provide Course In Runway Repairs

June 03 2011

Japan

Japan-based U.S. Marines have recently trained with U.S. airmen at the Silver Flag site at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, reports the Marine Corps News.

Air Force instructors taught various techniques in heavy equipment operation and rapid runway repair methods that are unique to their service, said a Marine commander.

The Air Force's 554th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers Squadron is a mobile and self-sufficient response force that...

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