Afghanistan National Army Horizontal Engineer - 2 Minute Story

SPRINGFIELD, IL (02/14/2012)(readMedia)-- There is broadcast piece on Soldiers with 661st Engineer Company training Afghani Soldier in construction work in Afghanistan. The story is currently available on DVIDS please see below for link and addtional infomation.

WHO:

• Illinois National Guard’s Sparta based 661st Engineer Company deployed to Afghanistan.
WHAT:

• Two-minute story on the Afghan National Army is learning how to lay the foundation to a better Afghanistan from Soldiers of the Illinois National Guard’s 661st Horizontal Engineer Company, Sparta.

• The 661st Engineer Company conducts horizontal engineer missions within Afghanistan to include both building and repairing roads, as well as site preparation for future buildings. The unit is capable of building low-water crossings, ditching and culvert emplacement, grading, scraping, fill material emplacement, hauling, stockpile management and pond restoration. The 661st capabilities increase the overall mobility of coalition forces, as well as the people of Afghanistan. Roughly 160 Soldiers mobilized with the 661st in September and will return to Illinois this summer

• FOB Shank, Afghanistan.

• Video available on DVIDS now. http://www.dvidshub.net/video/136644/ana-horizontal-engineer-2-minute-story
WHEN: Tuesday February 14, 2012 at 03:00PM Central Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: Illinois