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Show May Blanchard handles the hazardous waste disposal, keeping track of the used oil, hydraulic fluid and Feb. 19 with a lightning storm that knocked out the batteries from aircraft maintenance. He does other things he probably would not do some power. Looking for the circuit breakers hidden proved to be a chore. The hangar has 20 at Elmendorf, like training incoming units how to main circuit breakers and hundreds of smaller ones. use the one U.S. and two French-mad- e fire extinThe next week, they walked 8,000 feet of taxiway guishers near the maintenance area. to install reflectors every 50 to 200 feet for nightThat's a firefighter area, but we don't have firetime flying operations. They walked in 60 mph winds fighters," he said. "So every Guard rotation, I show called the Mistral, notorious in this region in them how to use the fire extinguishers at the other springtime and measured the distance with a end of the hangar." Col. Bill Smith, who has been the 16th EOG commeasuring wheel. "I was worried about getting here and having nothmander since December, said the sheer size of the ing to do," said Douglas, recalling his deployment hangar is probably the biggest challenge for the preparation. "I brought tons of books, thinking I'd engineers. "The French stopped using this hangar in the mid-70have nothing to do when work was over." The team worked every day for the first two months, so very little was done on the building until " Smith averaging 10 to 12 hours a day, taking one Sun- the Americans took over in the off. water said. "The and and electrical sysday plumbing and walls tems outdated in are need constant the built offices, patched repair." They hangar s and lawn mowers, painted Smith said that he is "impressed" with how the floor, fixed parking ramp lines, unplugged bathrooms drains CE team manages to keep up with a big workload and added 200 square feet of storage area for the and find time to volunteer in charitable ways. The unit played host May 16 to children from a .base exchange. "You name it, we've done it," he said, including local transition shelter, for women who have sufreplacing more than 100 fluorescent light bulbs fered domestic abuse and their children. and installing more than 150 smoke detectors. "It was the CE folks who built games for the kids and stayed around to entertain them throughOne project came with the spread of disease in the United Kingdom and other out the afternoon," Smith said. "Truly a great group of professionals." parts of Europe. "We have to treat all the food trash with acid," As the engineers prepare to return to Elmendorf, Gann said. "In the beginning, we had to take it over Gann looks back on deployment. "We left this place better than we found it," Gann to the French side for disposal because they had now of we dispose list is ready for the next it said, "and the things-to-dvery strict procedures; from Engineers, 14. page . s, mid-90s,- weed-eater- foot-and-mou- th " o crew." 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