December 06, 2021 at 10:45AM Airman 1st Class Tiffany Price The Silver Flag exercise site, located at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, is home to the 823rd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE), Detachment 1, a unit dedicated to providing contingency combat support training to multiple Air Force specialties. Throughout the 10-day course, Airmen are pushed through classroom briefings on the Rapid Airfield Damage Repair process, which make up the bulk of the course. After their initial briefing, students are divided into their individual specialty courses, which includes force support, explosive ordnance disposal, fire protection, civil engineering and contracting. However, one of the most unique parts of the course is the fire protection aspect which is a tri-annual requirement for all fire-protection Airmen.
