Unfortunately, their is not really a typical day in the life of a CE officer. It all depends on what job you have and what squadron your in. For an accession, lets go with the assumption that you will be assigned to a CE squadron at an Air Force Base. We'll try to have someone create a post for a typical day for a RED HORSE squadron but just understand that they RED HORSE positions have been rare for an assession to get because so many people want the positions.
At a squadron, we have multiple positions. Typically, you will get rotated through the different parts of a squadron to get breadth. There are 3-4 officer positions within the engineering flight (Project management from design through construction), 1 or 2 positions within the environmental flight (project management and compliance issues), 2 or 3 officer positions in the operations flight (maintenance engineering: smaller value infrastructure projects to repair/maintain the infrastructure of the base and usually all road/roofing/HVAC/electrical maintenance contracts), 1 officer in the Readiness Flight (Chemical Warfare, Base Emergency/Disaster Planning, Deployment Manager for the squadron). Other positions that may exist at the base are a resources flight chief (budget and real estate manager) and an Explosive Ordinance Diposal Flight Commander (Must be selected for and complete EOD School to qualify for this job).
For most jobs, the typical day consists of managing projects, going on job site inspections, working with your enlisted troops/counterparts. Project Management consists of working with civilian engineering firms and consulting/reviewing their engineering plans and at the same time you may be able to do small, in-house designs. Typically one or two days a month you will do squadron training for deployments/readiness requirements.
Your opportunities for leadership experience is unlimited. From day one, you will be in an authority position of some sort with respect to the enlisted troops in your squadron and civilians. This should get some discussion started
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What is Red Horse? And what do you do if you're assigned there?
Red Horse stands for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers
[RED HORSE]
They provide heavy repair capability and construction support when requirements exceed normal base civil engineer capabilities and where Army engineer support is not readily available. They possess weapons, vehicles/equipment and vehicle maintenance, food service, supply and medical equipment.
Their major wartime responsibilities are to provide a highly mobile, rapidly deployable, civil engineering response force that is self-sufficient to perform heavy damage repair required for recovery of critical Air Force facilities and utility systems, and aircraft launch and recovery. In addition, they accomplish engineer support for beddown of weapon systems required to initiate and sustain operations in an austere bare base environment, including remote hostile locations.
The primary RED HORSE tasking in peacetime is to train for contingency and wartime operations. They participate regularly in joint chiefs of staff and major command exercises, military operations other than war, and humanitarian civic action programs. They perform training projects which assist base construction efforts while at the same time honing wartime skills.
Units possess special capabilities, such as water-well drilling, explosive demolition, quarry operations, concrete mobile operations, material testing, expedient facility erection, and concrete and asphalt paving.
Info on Red Horse can be found at:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/redhorse.htm
Does anyone have a list of numbered CE squadrons and their corresponding bases. I just got my AFSC 32E1G and now have to pick a base. Trying to figure out what would be best for me and my wife. So if anyone has a list or has any recommendations I would be happy to hear.
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