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200th RED HORSE Squadron
Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engineers
HOME STATION: Port Clinton
PARENT UNIT
200th Civil Engineering Squadron (Heavy Repair)
DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH
25 September 1971, Port Clinton, Ohio
MISSION
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, it accomplishes engineer support for bed down of weapon systems required to initiate and sustain operations in an austere bare base environment, including remote hostile locations, or locations in a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives (CBRNE) prone environment.
1973 ~ Senior Master Sgt. Larry J. Sprenz (left), 200th Civil Engineering Squadron first sergeant, reports attendance to the squadron commander, Lt. Col. Donald K. Slaughter, circa 1973.
1990 ~ Members of the 200th RED HORSE Civil Engineering Squadron operate a water well driller in chemical suits during an operational readiness inspection in June 1990.
1990 ~ Master Sgt. Parks, Sgt. Burke, Staff Sgt. Nestinger and Staff Sgt. Warga from the 200th RED HORSE Squadron (RHS) pour concrete during a mission, circa 1990.
2005 ~ Staff Sgt. Andy J. Hikes (from left), of the 201st RHS, Senior Airman Thomas N. Davidson and Staff Sgt. Robert A. Skomrock, both of 200th RHS, lay concrete as part of the expansion of Camp Taji, Iraq airfield, March 7, 2005.
2017 ~ Members of the 200th RHS team up with Marines from the Engineer Services Company, Springfield, Ore. and Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, Port Hueneme, Calif. to conduct an Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) mission July 11, 2017, in Kapa'a, Hawaii.
2019 ~ Structures Airmen from the 200th RHS build cabin walls while deployed for an IRT project at Camp Kamassa in Crystal Springs, Miss., helping create a custom-built camp for children with special needs, March 21, 2019.