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Airman Alexander Garratt, 86th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, cries out in exhaustion. Competitors had to put on full protective fire gear, sprint to the top of a two-story tower and pull a fire hose weighing 45 pounds through the window, then sprint down to the bottom floor, hit a 165-pound steel beam with a nine-pound hammer until it moved forward five feet, negotiate through a 100-foot serpentine course, drag a hose 75 feet and knock down a target with a stream of water. To end the course, firefighters had to drag a 175-pound dummy 100 feet to the finish line.
Alfred Hasemann, 786th Civil Engineer Squadron painter, puts a fresh coat of paint over a worn out directional arrow. Airmen from the 786th CES maintain more than 1,700 facilities and more than 5,000 housing units on Ramstein, Sembach, Einsiedlerhof, Kapaun, Landstuhl, Vogelweh and 20 geographically separated units.
Airmen 1st Class Keandre Hall and Tyler McCaslin, 786th Civil Engineer Squadron structure technicians, replace a crosswalk sign. The 786th CES manages more than 10 million square feet of airfield, more than 4,700 acres of land on Ramstein and 19 other geographically separated units.
Airman 1st Class Jeffrey Knelange, 786th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal apprentice, helps Airman 1st Class Tyler Hatfield, 786th CES EOD apprentice, into his bomb suit before practicing unexploded ordnance operations. Ramstein EOD Airmen provide support to the base and the local community by helping destroy ordnance found in and around the local community.
Staff Sgt. William Hatfield, 786th Civil Engineer Squadron heating, ventilation and air
conditioning supervisor, and Senior Airman Anthony Stephens, 786th CES HVAC craftsman, look through the technical manual for a commercial kitchen ventilation system at the Pizza Gallerie in the Ramstein Community Center.
