Photo By Sgt. Brian Johnson | With their supplies loaded up, the Soldiers of the 1434th Engineer Company finish up...... read more read more
By Spc. Brian Johnson
BAGHDAD - Soldiers of 1434th Engineer Company have been working hard to complete construction on a new building at Joint Security Station Deason. The new facility is expected to improve the quality of life for Soldiers of the 17th Military Transition Team, stationed there.
The new construction will provide additional space for Soldiers to use the Internet, call home and hold religious services.
“The current area where Soldiers can go to call home or get online is extremely limited,” said Warrant Officer Summers, a Soldier with the 1434th Engineer Company, from Grayling, Michigan. “It is a small building with a handful of computers and phones that does not have enough space to adequately meet the needs of all of the Soldiers here.”
Additionally, according to Summers, the design of the new facility will provide increased privacy for Soldiers to check their email or call loved ones back home. Currently, the phones and Internet are in a small building cramped together.
“The new building will allow for twice as much space for Soldiers to be able to get online and separate the phone area from the Internet area,” said Summers.
Common practice for the engineers is to pre-fabricate pieces of buildings prior to arriving on-site. In this case, the pre-fabrication allowed the construction to proceed smoothly, the majority of which was completed in just under two weeks.
According to Spc. Joshua Gapske, a member of the 1434th Engineer Company, from Alpena, Michigan, Soldiers at Deason are excited about the new facility.
“As the building has gone up, many of the Soldiers stationed on the base have come in and checked out the new building. As they are looking at the construction, you can see an excitement on their faces,” said Gapske.
The new facility includes a space for JSS Deason’s chapel services, adjacent to the phone and internet area.
“The chaplain did not know that he was getting a new chapel,” said Summers. “During one of his recent visits, when he found out that he was getting a new area to conduct religious services, he was extremely excited.”
With construction nearly complete, the Soldiers of the 1434th have begun to turn their eyes to their next construction project at JSS Deason, which will begin later this month. The Soldiers will conduct a joint construction project with the 17th Iraqi Army Division, building a new combined division operations center.
| Date Taken: | 03.10.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 04.11.2015 20:06 |
| Story ID: | 159747 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Hometown: | ALPENA, MI, US |
| Hometown: | GRAYLING, MI, US |
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