The 139th Airlift Wing, Missouri Air National Guard will welcome home nearly 40 Airmen from the Civil Engineer Squadron here Thursday, July 12 from a six-month deployment to Guantanamo, Cuba.
Since their departure in January, the squadron built a long list of accomplishments as the Prime Base Engineering Emergency Force, (Prime BEEF), 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron.
The squadron’s primary mission included facilities maintenance, repair and construction related to Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s Expeditionary Legal Complex and Camp Justice.
There are more than 70 Prime BEEF squadrons in the Air National Guard, which deploy worldwide for overseas contingency operations. When not deployed, members are responsible for facility management on their home bases.
Prior to their deployment, the Wing’s civil engineers partnered with federal, state and local officials as part of the Wing’s response to the Missouri River flooding in St. Joseph, Mo.