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Virginia Air Guard engineers conduct FTX focused on mobility and deployment skills
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No CommentsCAMP PENDLETON, Va. — Airmen from the Virginia Air National Guard’s Camp Pendleton-based 203rd RED HORSE Squadron focused on mobility training and deployment skills Nov. 1-4, 2012, during a field training exercise at Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach. Approximately 120 Airmen from the 203rd RHS participated in the FTX where they set up a forward operating base, conducted warfare training and refined required wartime tasking skills. The exercise emphasized basics like general safety practices, setting up and protecting a base, and field hygiene while more specialized training included war-task training like convoy operations and airfield damage assessments and repair. “This is great training as we work with the different equipment because all of our gear is mobility equipment and therefore... -
Children of Virginia Guard Soldiers, Airmen enjoy 7th annual Youth Camp
Posted on August 15, 2012 | No CommentsVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — More than 100 children of Virginia National Guard members participated in the seventh annual Virginia National Guard Youth Camp July 30- Aug. 3, 2012 at Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach. The week-long camp featured a wide variety of outdoor and indoor activities, including presentations from military and civilian organizations. The campers included 63 kids between the ages of 8-12 and 38 teens between the ages of 13-17. In addition to a week of outdoor activities and arts & crafts fun, the campers spent time in the sun at the beach and traveled to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg for a day of fun. This year’s camp marked a lot of firsts for the Virginia Guard Youth Camp,... -
203rd RED HORSE Airmen tackle new Air Force Qualification Course at Camp Pendleton
Posted on May 10, 2012 | No CommentsVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Airmen from the Virginia Air National Guard’s 203rd RED HORSE Squadron hit the beach at the Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach May 6 for individual weapons qualification on their M-4 rifles. It was the first time the Airmen from the 203rd RHS fired using the Air Force’s new Air Force Rifle Qualification Course. The new course features more firing, more positions and more classroom instruction before hitting the actual range. “We went from 100 rounds to 276 rounds,” explained Master Sgt. Dan Summerell of the 203rd RHS, who served as noncommissioned officer in charge of the range. “There are a total of six phases and 17 different procedures.” There are many differences between the old course and... -
203rd RED HORSE remembers Airmen, Soldiers killed in fatal plane crash 11 years ago
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Family members, friends and fellow Airmen from the 203rd RED HORSE Squadron gathered at the State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach March 3 to honor the 18 unit members and three Florida Army National Guard aviators who were killed in a military transport crash 11 years ago. The Virginia Guard engineers and three Florida aviators from Detachment 1, Company H, 171st Aviation Battalion were killed on March 3, 2001, as the 203rd members were returning home after completing a two-week military construction project at Hurlburt Field, Fla. The C-23 Sherpa they were flying in crashed in a cotton field near Unadilla, Ga. Because of inclement weather, Saturday’s ceremony was held in the 203rd Red Horse Squadron...