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Another need the team uncovered involved the local school, which has been closed for<br />
several months, but is scheduled to reopen in three months. The school, which teaches<br />
students first through twelfth grade, lacks funding and supplies to operate daily.<br />
Members of the engagement team and civil affairs representatives are currently<br />
exploring possible solutions to these two specific areas as well as others that were<br />
presented during the visit. (NATO News Release)<br />
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Naval Mobile Construction Battalions 40 and 18, SeaBees, and the 864th Engineer<br />
Battalion, 557th Engineer Company began razing the area around a former Soviet grain<br />
processing silo for a future 10 mega-watt power plant and a combat outpost in Kandahar<br />
City, Kandahar province, Afghanistan Nov. 18.<br />
The outpost is planned to be home to a team of soldiers of the 122nd Infantry to support<br />
their mission in and around Kandahar. The power plant will provide power to the<br />
western side of Kandahar city.<br />
The SeaBees were tasked with the demolition of the smaller buildings around the silo,<br />
and it was estimated it would take more than two weeks to complete the work.<br />
“It’s a great experience to be able to work with a sister service just to see what the<br />
differences are with leadership and construction abilities and daily ops,” said U.S. Army<br />
Staff. Sgt. Pedro Armijo, 1st Squad Leader, 2nd Platoon, 557th Engineer Company, 864th<br />
Engineer Battalion. “It should be more often that we work with our sister services like Air<br />
Force, Navy, Marines, and coalition forces.”<br />
The 557th Engineer Company received a request to help the SeaBees finish the project<br />
earlier than scheduled. The company brought heavy equipment, excavators and<br />
bulldozers to help the SeaBees with the project.<br />
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