Letting Planes Land

Red Horse Maintanence
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Red Horse Keeps Planes Landing at Kandahar By Air Force Maj. David Kurle, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

6/15/2006 - KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Runways are essential to any air operation and many of the airfields in Afghanistan, used in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, need improvements.

The runway here is being refurbished by cutting it in half length-wise, with crews repairing one side while aircraft land and take off on the other. With the first half complete, construction crews are working on the next stage.

In order to use the now-completed side of the runway, lighting was required to keep the airfield open at night, and that job fell to the 1st Expeditionary Red Horse Group.

Master Sgt. Richard Brown, a Red Horse infrastructure supervisor, leads a team of six Airmen deployed to Bagram Air Base. The team traveled to Kandahar in southwest Afghanistan to install an emergency airfield lighting system to keep the planes landing. {Click on image for details}