Field training prepares Air Guard engineering unit for inspection, future deployments -- September 10-13, 2009

Heavy rains and driving winds greeted the Airmen of the 203d RED HORSE Squadron as they converged upon Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach for the unit's annual Field Training Exercise, Sept. 10-13. More than 150 Airmen belonging to the Virginia Air National Guard's rapid-response engineering unit took to the field for the exercise. They set up and protected their encampment, conducted warfare training and honed many of the skills included in their wartime taskings requirements.