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Electricians light up the flightline

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  • By Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade
  • 455 Air Expeditionary Wing, Public Affairs
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan --  Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan is home to the Department of Defense's single busiest runway, transiting over two-thousand aircraft movements per a month. A three-man airfield lighting team comprised of Tech. Sgt. Justin Lotero, Blake Moulden and Staff Sgt. Paul Izyk assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron electrical systems shop here work every night to maintain more than one-thousand lights spanning the over one-million square feet of Bagrams flight line. In the last six months, this team has replaced 20,000 feet of conductor wire and seven out of eight stadium lights that were not working, increasing the safety of operations on the flight line. Besides the complexity of the different electrical systems they work with, the team has had to deal with unexpected power outages because of the heat. When the power goes out, they turn on solar lamps that light up the airfield.