U.S. Marines join Airmen to carry out repair of mock runway

U.S. Marines from the 172nd and 171st Engineering Companies joined the Air Force’s 18th Civil Engineer Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan on Feb. 26 for a joint airfield damage and repair contingency exercise.

U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class John Linzmeier

The exercise gave members from both services the opportunity to showcase their runway repair capabilities and helped them establish more effective ways to communicate and react in a crisis situation.

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