Red Horse Squadron marches on

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10:09 PM
Jul 23
2010
Provided photo/ Members of the Ohio Red Horse Squadron look on while building a runway earlier this year at Camp Dwyer in the Helmond Province of Afghanistan.
ERIE TOWNSHIP

ERIE TWP.

Members of Camp Perry’s 200th RED HORSE Squadron have labored in the scorching 110 to 120 degree Afghanistan landscape for the past four months. 

The engineering squadron, identifiable by their red ball caps, haven’t let the arid climate get in their way as they’ve worked on major infrastructure improvements at military installations. 

In addition to drilling wells and building airplane hangars, the squadron will soon complete the first paved runway it’s built since the Vietnam era.  

Read the full story in Saturday's Register.