U.S., South Korean alliance reinforced as Airmen train for wartime contingency
Concrete begins to cure on the boots of U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Ryan Williams, 773d Civil Engineer Squadron, after a Rapid Airfield Damage Repair training exercise at Gwangju Air Base, Republic of Korea., Nov. 9, 2017. U.S. and R.O.K. Airmen trained together for a week to learn the new RADR process, preparing them for response to wartime contingencies, enhancing interoperability and building partnership capacity in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. The civil engineers teamed up to complete an airfield damage repair exercise on a mock airstrip with multiple craters, testing the team's ability to restore a runway to operational status as quickly as possible.