RATING FROM SECTION II AS DETERMINED BY MAJOR COMMAND ENGINEER (Note 7) XXX XXX 9
Major Accomplishments for 1968, Co C, 79th Engineer Battalion (Construction)
1. On 17 January 1968, C Company, 79th Engr Bn began the year's accomplish-ments by receiving in all areas, ratings of Excellent for the Annual General Inspection. The magnitude of this accomplishment does not seem extraordinary or unusual until the fact is considered that the company did not return from a lengthy project at Grafenwoehr training area until late December 1967.
2. The construction season found C Company with eight projects, all platoon or reinforced platoon size, located throughout Germany with one in Spain.
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. The first project began 29 April 1968 in Wuerzburg Germany, and involved the construction of three 20'x 48' type ACOMAL prefabricated buildings which were to be used as additional classrooms for the Wuerzburg High School. The prefabs had to be placed on a concrete foundation and included a tile brick floor which necessitated an extremely fine finish on the concrete foun-dation, lighting fixtures, heating system, interior painting, outside utilities, and plumbing. This project was originally scheduled to be completed on 27 August 1968, but due to the heavy commitments programmed for the Battalion, C Company was directed by the Battalion S-3 to make every effort to complete this project ahead of schedule. By working many long hours and many weekends the project was completed on the 9th of August, 1968, 18 days ahead of schedule, yet done with such fine workmanship that it was presented a certificate for outstanding construction on the day of the turnover ceremonies.
4. On 22 May 1968 the company's second platoon size project was begun in Bued-ingen, Germany. This project encompassed the removal and replacements of faul-ty concrete roadways located in Armstrong Barracks. This project was originally scheduled to be completed on 4 July 1968, but C Company was once again directed by the battalion to expend all effort in order to complete the project ahead of schedule. Even with a two-week materials delay, the project was completed seve-ral days ahead of schedule and was recommended for an Outstanding Construction Award.
5. On 5 June 1968 the CMMI team came to Neu Ulm to inspect C Company. Even with two platoons on project sites several hundred miles from the company area and with most of the company maintenance personnel and equipment programmed to support these projects, the company passed the inspection with an overall score of 79%.
6. The next project assigned to C Company was located at Moron AFB, Seville, Spain. This project began on 24 June 1968 employing a reinforced earthmoving platoon. It involved the excavation of approximately 80,000 cubic yards of soil around 5 jet fuel tanks; the placement of 2700 cubic yards of gravel around the base of the tanks; the installation Of 5 sump pumps, 700 yards of inavasion pipeline, and 400 yards of underground cable; and the repair of the tanks to include welding, grouting, and backfilling around the tanks. In this project it was also necessary to take unusual safety precautions due to the highly volatile jet fuel which was not only in the tanks, but had also saturated the earth around them. All equipment had to be fitted with flash arre-stors and extreme precaution was necessary to prevent any metal-to-metal contact which could produce sparks. The project was completed on 8 November 1968 and recommended for an Outstanding Construction Award.
7. The day after the platoon located on the Road Repair project returned, they began work on C Company's next mission, the construction of 3 more prefabricated buildings to be used as classrooms. This time the project was located at home station in Neu Ulm, Germany. Along with the directive for the construction requirements came a directive requiring availability for Beneficial Occupancy to be before 4 September 1968. Once again many long hours and weekends were re-quired and once again the men of C Company completed the project in time for sch-ool to begin with three new classrooms. This project is still pending a Certif-icate for Outstanding Construction.
8. The next mission assigned to C Company was not a project belonging solely to C Company, but was rather a portion of a project already in the process of construction by another company of the battalion. It involved the construction of a motor maintenance complex which was a part of the tactical missile site being constructed by C Company's sister company. This mission began on 21 August 1968 and was completed on 20 December 1968. Because this project was given an A prior-ity C company's men worked seven days a week during the entire mission and at the same time endured the discomforts and inconveniences of living at the top of a mountain which was 20 miles from the nearest town and even farther from the nearest military post
9. The next project was again back at home station in Neu Ulm, Germany. It in-volved the construction of yet another prefabricated building, 40' x 100' and 20' high at the peak. The building was to be used by a missile battalion as their ordnance building. Project began 11 September 1968 and was completed for beneficial occupancy on 17 January 1969, at which time the remainder of the project, which included a hardstand and security fence, was suspended until after the training season. The scope of this project involved disassembling the building 100 miles from Neu Ulm, transporting it back to Ulm, placing concrete footers and floor, erecting the build-ing, insulating both ceiling and walls, lining the walls with plasterboard (Rigips Board), painting the interior, installing fluorescent lighting, and installing a 2,500,000 BTU heating system. Originally this building was scheduled to be completed in December 1968, but the platoon assigned the project was withdrawn to do a higher priority project on the Czechoslovakian border.
10. The project which interrupted work on the ordnance prefab was an A priority project located in Eckstein, Germany. It began on 7 October 1968 and was completed on 23 November 1968. It involved the construction of a naval Quonset type prefab and the erection of five antenna pads. This project was also recommended for an Outstanding Construction Award, which is still pending.
RANDALL E. CAMPBELL
1LT, CE
Commanding
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