Airmen, Soldiers validate system during first ever battle drill
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Maj. John Vipperman, a civil engineer with the Logistics Support Area Anaconda Mayor Cell, confers with Maj. Scott Bryant, 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron and Maj. John Silva, 76th Combat Infantry Brigade about civil engineer matters in the Joint Emergency Operations Center during a battle drill here, March 31. Air Force and Army counterparts worked together in the Joint Emergency Operations Center to restore the base to normal wartime operations and to take care of simulated injured people. Major Vipperman is deployed from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., Major Bryant is deployed from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., and Major Silva is deployed from the Indiana National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo /Staff Sgt. Mareshah Haynes)