JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Jason Hopper, 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron pavement and construction equipment operator, uses a bull float, a cement-finishing tool, to even out the surface of a concrete pad during a construction project here Feb. 15. The sergeant helped complete a 76-meter concrete pad. Sergeant Hopper is a deployed member of the 3rd Civil Engineer Squadron at Elmendorf AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Dilia Ayala)