Military at the Border, working on the Roads (pics)

5/4/2008

[Ladycalif]

Maybe Airforce

[kellynla]

For those who aren’t familiar with the AF Red Horse

The RED HORSE Way
http://www.afa.org/magazine/feb2003/0203redhorse.asp

Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers
[RED HORSE]
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/redhorse.htm

Airborne RED HORSE
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforce/a/airbornerh.htm

[kellynla]

Well you took the pix didn’t you or you know who did...

don’t you know who they are?

[Ladycalif]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/201rh.htm

he 201st is a 235-member, highly mobile, rapidly deployable, self-supporting construction team with one-third of its personnel in the vertical construction trades, one-third heavy equipment operators and one-third support function personnel.

[xone]

No chain pulling as your links indicate. BUT it looks like that same POS crap that was up before instead of the high tech fencing with the patrol road. BP can’t see through it and while it is better than nothing, it ain’t the Empire State in 400 days.

[Ladycalif]

yes, they are.

[Ladycalif]

Campo, CA.

[Ladycalif]

Air Force at the Border Ping.

[El Gato]

Reservists?

Probably, probably Air Guard. But they are Air Force for sure. The Army rarely wears BDU's anymore, the rank insignia are clearly Air Force (or AF Reserver or Air Guard). Also the unit and command patches on the shirt pockets are the way the Air Force does that. And the unit ball caps in place of BDU pattern caps or helmets also says "Air Force".

[El Gato]

Okay, I give up...who are the guys in the camos & red baseball caps?

US Air Force, AF Reserve or Air Guard. Picture isn't good enough to read the unit patches to tell which. Could even be Air Branch of the Texas State Guard, who wear AF type uniforms, but with a different "service tape" in place of "US Air Force" (even guard and reserve tapes say US Air Force, I've been both)

[El Gato]

Dollars to donuts those guys are Corps of Engineers civies...

If they were, they'd probably not be wearing uniforms at all, not in the US, and if they were wearing uniforms, those would probably be ACUs, with a "DA Civilian" tape in place of the "US Army" tape, and no rank insignia.

The guy on our left clearly has subdued *blue* USAF stripes, Master Sergeant to be exact, and his units "first shirt", "top" by the diamond above the star. Like this, only blue subdued:

The Air Force Blue van is also a hint, although I've seen some that have been transferred to Army post support and not yet repainted.

[El Gato]

what the heck is the AF doing on the mexican border.

Building roads so that the equipemt and personell can get in to build the fence?

There are AF Civil Engineering units you know. They specialize in repairing runways, but the skills and hardware are little different than that needed to build roads. So, for the AF Reserve or Air National Guard, who wear the same uniforms as USAF, building roads during annual training, would be a Good Idea. You get the road, they get to keep their skills up.

I "hired" an Air Guard unit to help install some cable trays, cables and connectors for my USAF active organization. Two years later, they were still working on it, although they were almost finished, and I was part of the Air Guard unit. :)

[endthematrix]

I’m thinking they are AF “Red Horse” and they were used under 200th Red Horse squadron in Aug 2007.

[endthematrix]

Meant to say Operation Jump Start or Diamondback

[Liberty2007]

yeah, dont get your hopes up. I get the lastest emails about illegal immigration. the other day they sent me a lou dobbs clip, new amnesty bill is even worse than the one last summer. the 800 mile fence will be 250 maybe. Illegals will be given citizenship in 1 day even if the background check is not completed(ever hear of a 1 day background check?) no back taxes, earned income taxcredit,instate tuition, money to mexico to keep mexicans there.these guys are burning me up what the hell are we going to do about it they DONT LEARN ANYTHING!!!!!!!!.