Civil Engineers receive AF Meritorious Unit Award
Members of the 442nd Civil Engineer Squadron, who deployed to Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, for four months from September 2006 to January will receive the Air Force Meritorious Unit Award for their deployment to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing. During the deployment, the Air Force reservists programmed and worked on more than $4.25 million in infrastructure projects to improve the base and airfieled, as well as ongoing maintenance projects such as road repair. In addition to the civil engineers, approximately 300 resrvists across the 442nd Fighter Wing, were recently honored with the same award for a deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in 2006. (Courtesy photo)