Ohio National Guard News

Ohio Army National Guard engineers
work to improve Camp Ravenna

Story and photos by Staff Sgt. George B. Davis, Ohio National Guard

Soldiers with Headquarters, 216th Engineer Battalion work on the construction of a hasty tactical command post, June 20, 2016, during annual training at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center near Newton Falls, Ohio. Soldiers also built fighting positions, erected razor wire and established communications as part of a command post exercise.

Soldiers with Headquarters, 216th Engineer Battalion work on the construction of a hasty tactical command post, June 20, 2016, during annual training at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center near Newton Falls, Ohio. Soldiers also built fighting positions, erected razor wire and established communications as part of a command post exercise.
Members of the 291st and 292nd Engineer Detachments conduct paving operations at Fuse and Booster Spur roads June 20, 2016. Spc. David Wilson, a heavy construction equipment operator with the 1191st Engineer Company, operates a roller compactor at a parking lot construction site for the Unit Training Equipment Site (UTES) facility at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center.

Members of the 291st and 292nd Engineer Detachments conduct paving operations at Fuse and Booster Spur roads.

Spc. David Wilson, a heavy construction equipment operator with the 1191st Engineer Company, operates a roller compactor at a parking lot construction site.
An front end loader, operated by the 1191st Engineer Company, drops a load of gravel for a waiting dump truck . Two Ohio National Guard M1075 palletized loading trucks deliver construction materials to members of Headquarters, 216th Engineer Battalion.

An front end loader, operated by the 1191st Engineer Company, drops a load of gravel for a waiting dump truck.

Two Ohio National Guard M1075 palletized loading trucks deliver construction materials.
Sgt. John Musholt, a squad leader with the 1191st Engineer Company, gets guidance from the seat of a tractorized dozer at a parking lot construction site for the Unit Training Equipment Site (UTES) facility at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center. Second Lt. Christopher Dorson-King, 1191st Engineer Company executive officer, operates a motorized road grader at a parking lot construction site.

Sgt. John Musholt, a squad leader with the 1191st Engineer Company, gets guidance from the seat of a tractorized dozer at a parking lot construction site.

Second Lt. Christopher Dorson-King, 1191st Engineer Company executive officer, operates a motorized road grader at a parking lot construction site.
Members of the 291st and 292nd Engineer Detachments conduct paving operations at Fuse and Booster Spur roads . Cpl. Tyler Long (from left), Capt. Matthew Curtis and Spc. Alan Shirer raise a communications antenna for the construction of a hasty tactical command post.

Members of the 291st and 292nd Engineer Detachments conduct paving operations at Fuse and Booster Spur roads.

Cpl. Tyler Long (from left), Capt. Matthew Curtis and Spc. Alan Shirer raise a communications antenna for the construction of a hasty tactical command post.

NEWTON FALLS, Ohio (02/15/17) — Engineer units within the 16th Engineer Brigade conducted several infrastructure improvement projects as part of their 2016 annual training at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center near Newton Falls, Ohio this summer.

The 1191st Engineer Company (Horizontal) employed its heavy construction equipment in the creation of a parking lot for the Unit Training Equipment Site (UTES) facility at Camp Ravenna. Navigating their tractorized dozer, grader and roller-compactor, the engineers cleared a patch of earth that will be dedicated to storage of other heavy construction equipment used during engineer unit training.

Members of the 291st and 292nd Engineer Detachments conducted paving operations at Fuse and Booster Spur roads on Camp Ravenna. With asphalt and tar that comes out of their spreader at over 300 degrees, it was hot, sticky work for the detachments’ Soldiers.

Soldiers of Headquarters, 216th Engineer Battalion conducted several training operations including the construction of a hasty tactical command post. The Soldiers built fighting positions, erected razor wire and established communications in a training operation in an isolated training are of Camp Ravenna.

Ongoing infrastructure improvements at Camp Ravenna over the past several years have improved training conditions and capabilities for Ohio National Guard members to train to be Always Ready, Always There.

 

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