Securing and Protecting Infrastructure in Intermountain Fly-over Country

SELF | April 6, 2004 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Securing and Protecting infrastructure in Intermountain Fly-over Country

The following is a pictorial description of a typical late-winter/early-spring security and control maintenance/trouble shooting and repair trip to critical regional infrastructure and communication facilities in the intermountain region. These types of activities are ongoing to protect and maintain the infrastructure that benifits our republic.

The specific nature of the work, the location of the facilities and the identifiying marks on the facilities and equipment have been left intentionally vague. It is hoped that the presentation will help others understand and appreciate the type of ongoing work being conducted across the nation to secure our infrastructure, irrespective of what may be occurring in other areas domestically.

The helo pickup and flying outbound over the foothills

Into the beautiful Intemountain Ranges of the Rocky Mountains

Primary work assignment socked-in, diverting to secondary site, a mountaintop comm station.

Approaching the secondary assignment, and, after landing, yours truly ready to work.

A communications station in the top of the Rocky Mountains.

Winter access to the comm station & a cozy but cold place to complete maintenance and check security systems.

Beautiful view from the top as we prepared to depart once more for the primary assignment.

Back in-route to a now cleared up primary assignment.

On the ground at a remote regional infrastructure site and ready to go to work.

Water storage filling under April ice and the facility housing the control and security systems.

Work now complete and departing the area, climbing out over the nearby ranges.

More beautiful mountain canyon and valley scenery on the return trip.

Approaching our base facilty and landing there, back at our home-20.

In addition to the tremendous and difficult work being performed by our military forces in the War on Terror, there are tens thousands of public servants in many agencies working to maintain, secure and protect critical infrastructure and the populace right here at home. Many of them are veterans who have carried their service to their country and the attendant oaths to bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution and to protect and defend it forward into their post military life where they continue to serve.

On this particular trip I was priveleged to work with a couple of them.

[the irate magistrate]

Cool !!!

Really Cool!!

[amom]

I finally settled down long enough to find your ping.

Excellent Jeff! What a beautiful country we have here. Thank you for helping to keep it and us safe.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks my friend. Tell Doug and Bernie hi for me and print out the pcis for the boys at Bernie's.

Best Regards.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you. it is a beautiful country and Idaho is right in the middle of some of the most beautiful parts.

I wish I could do more...and given what our troops are facing it's really not all that big a deal...but it is something and I enjoy being involved to whatever degree.

[amom]

I wish I could do more

Understand completely.
Some people make things happen
Some people watch things happen
Some people don't know anything happened.

You're in the first catagory, imo.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you for those very kind words...they are too kind.

Best fregards to you and yours.

[Jeff Head]

Thought you two might be interested in this thread.

[Atlantic Friend]

Wow, superb pictures... What a countryside ! You must have immensely enjoyed your work there. Snow makes the landscape so quiet, so peaceful...

I'm a bit of a "horrible snowman" myself, albeit a very frustrated one since snow is a very rare occurrence along the French Atlantic coast.

[Jeff Head]

I live near the scenery shown and our base station is a relatively short distance from these installations (especially by air).

I do enjoy the work and particularly the opportunity to be of some help to my country during these difficult times.

[Jeff Head]

FYI.

[Uncle Miltie]

Good on ya'!

There are lots of major and minor ways to get involved protecting the country.

I joined Civil Air Patrol (USAF Aux.) as a Senior Member, just to give the kids in the program more structure and program content. We've got graduates in Iraq now, and more on the way.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks you for that information and the service you are rendering.

Each of us, as citizens of this great, free Republic, should do all we can possibly do to help in the war effort so we can preserve our liberties and way of life. God willing, and if we are true to the fundamental moral foundations our nations and liberty were founded upon...we shall.

[Jeff Head]

Here is the other thread I mentioned.