A New Kind of Record

Aug. 25, 2006

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Civil engineering airmen of the Kansas Air National Guard’s 184th Air Refueling Wing constructed 2,009 feet of fencing in Arizona along the border with Mexico during their two-week deployment to assist the Border Patrol. The Kansas City Star reports that the feat exceeded the work of seven previous National Guard civil engineering units.

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