“We surmised the worst situation they could be facing. “We placed ourselves in the position of a person who had scaled the wall at Kabul Airport with just the clothes on their back,” Patterson said. They knew it probably involved Afghanistan, but this tasking was vague – bed down a lot of people at yet-to-be determined facilities for an unknown period of time.
Wayland Patterson, chief of AFCEC’s Air Force Contract Augmentation Program, and his team didn’t have much to go on. On an early Friday morning in late August, three Air Force Civil Engineer Center project managers met in a conference room at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida to help 25,000 people start a new life. JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS).
