Preparing for oil spills in the arctic
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska ? Tech. Sgt. Andrew Perrin, 611th Civil Engineer Squadron, looks on as Tech. Sgt. Lucas Clark, 611th CES, uses a Bobcat to push a block of ice back into the water March 1 at JBER?s Six-Mile Lake during the annual Ice Operations Exercise. Approximately a combined 60 members from the 611th CES, U.S. Coast Guard, the Navy?s Supervisor of Salvage, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Alaska Chadux Corporation participated in the annual exercise, where participants practice various oil spill clean-up drills in preparation if there was ever an event here in Alaska. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Gross)