Airmen from 203rd RED HORSE Squadron scheduled to return from overseas duty - Oct. 7, 2011

Approximately 120 Airmen from the Virginia Beach-based 203rd RED HORSE Squadron are scheduled to return to the United States Oct. 8 after serving in Afghanistan and other areas in the Central Command area of operations. The unit began federal active duty Feb. 17, 2011, spent several weeks conducting final preparations in Virginia, then spent three weeks in early March at Fort McCoy, Wisc., for Combat Skills Training before heading overseas.

RED HORSE stands for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, and the unit provides a highly mobile civil engineering response force to support contingency operations worldwide.