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The Air National Guard recently tasked

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the 149th Fighter Wings Civil Engineer

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Squadron to complete an innovative

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readiness training exercise with the

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Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma . The I . R .

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T . Program is a Department of Defense

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initiative exclusive to the United

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States and its territories that

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delivers joint training opportunities

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to increase the toilet readiness . The

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project aims to build 14 houses for use

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by Cherokee veterans who are homeless

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or at risk of homelessness . So we got

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here , we had one house was about 25%

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ready , it had exterior walls up and

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some trusses . So we finished the

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entire roof for one house um to put all

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the shingles , everything um and close

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it watertight with doors , windows in

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one house and then we did another house ,

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it was just a foundation concrete

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foundation . So we built all the

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exterior walls , interior walls um in

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the next couple of days we'll be doing

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the trusses and getting that ready for

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the to do the same process for that

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house as well . Aside from achieving

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their construction goals . The CE

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squadron has greatly benefited from

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their time at the project site . Well

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we've got a lot of training , you know ,

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this is a good time , We have a lot of

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structural stuff going on here and

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that's good cross training . I myself ,

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I'm an electrician but you know , being

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c we gotta kind of know each other jobs

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here and there so to be more equipped

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to handle stop especially the deploy

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setting . So very quick power unit To

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get the mission done reporting for the

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1 49th Fighter Wing . I'm Tech Sergeant

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Salazar .