The

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...

's 202d RED HORSE squadron (202 RHS) is a civil engineering unit of the

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located at

Camp Blanding Camp Blanding Joint Training Center is the primary military reservation and training base for the Florida National Guard, both the Florida Army National Guard and certain nonflying activities of the Florida Air National Guard. The installation is ...

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. The acronym

RED HORSE Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer (RED HORSE) squadrons are the United States Air Force's heavy-construction units. Their combat engineering capabilities are similar to those of the U.S. Navy Seabees and U.S ...

is derived from "Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers" and are a key element of the capabilities of the broader USAF civil engineering community. If mobilized to active duty with the U.S. Air Force, the squadron is operationally-gained by the

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(ACC).

Mission

* The mission of the 202 RHS is to provide a highly mobile, rapidly deployable, USAF civil engineering force that is self-sufficient for worldwide deployment to execute heavy damage repair of facilities, utility systems and aircraft launch and recovery ranging from established major air bases to austere forward operating bases (FOB).

History

* January 1985 - 202nd RED HORSE Squadron activated at Camp Blanding, Florida. * Spring / Summer 1998 - 202 RHS is placed on State Active Duty (SAD) to combat wildfires in Florida. * July 2002 - 202 RHS was deployed to Jamaica to assist in the building of a clinic. * August 2004 - October 2004 - 202 RHS and 203 RHS provide support across Florida in response to Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan. * 202 RHS and 203 RHS was deployed to Camp Darby, Italy to support depot storage. * August 2005 - 202 RHS deployed to Mississippi and Louisiana as a relief force in response to Hurricane Katrina. * November 2014 - In order to comply with Air Force Instruction 38-101, several units of the

were administratively realigned under the 125th Fighter Wing (125 FW) as geographically separated units (GSUs) of the 125 FW as the new parent wing. This included administrative assignment of the 202 RHS to the 125 FW. * October 2020 - May 2021 - Over 100 members of the 202 RHS were mobilized to federal active duty and forwar deployed to

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, Qatar in support of Operations FREEDOM'S SENTINEL. During this eight-month deployment, the squadron accomplished multiple air base/air facility, hangar, runway and other heavy engineer repair and construction projects throughout the

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area of responsibility.

Assignments

* Florida Air National Guard - Jan 1985 - Present

Major Command/Gaining Command

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(TAC) 1985 - 1992

(ACC) Jan 1993 - Present

Previous designations

Not Applicable

Bases stationed

* Camp Blanding Joint Training Center,

(Jan 1985 – Present)

Weapons Systems Operated

N/A

References

External links

202nd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers

FLANG- 202 REDHORSE FACT SHEET

202nd RED HORSE completes rigorous inspection
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