The following is a pictorial description of a typical late-winter/early-spring security and control maintenance/trouble shooting and repair assignment to critical regional infrastructure and communication facilities in the intermountain region. These types of activities are ongoing to protect and maintain the infrastructure that benifits our entire society.

The specific nature of the work, the location of the facilities and the identifiying marks on the facilities and equipment have been left intentionally vague. It is hoped that the presentation will help others understand and appreciate the type of ongoing work being conducted across the nation to secure our infrastructure, irrespective of what may be occurring in other areas domestically.

The helo pickup and flying outbound over the foothills

Into the beautiful Intemountain Ranges of the Rocky Mountains

Primary work assignment socked-in, diverting to secondary site, a mountaintop comm station.

Approaching the secondary assignment, and, after landing, yours truly ready to work.

A communications station in the top of the Rocky Mountains.

Winter access to the comm station & a cozy but cold place to complete maintenance and check security systems.

Beautiful view from the top as we prepared to depart once more for the primary assignment.

Back in-route to a now cleared up primary assignment.

On the ground at a remote regional infrastructure site and ready to go to work.

Water storage filling under April ice and the facility housing the control and security systems.

Work now complete and departing the area, climbing out over the nearby ranges.

More beautiful mountain canyon and valley scenery on the return trip.

Approaching our base facilty and landing there, back at our home-20.

In addition to the tremendous and difficult work being performed by our military forces in the War on Terror, there are tens thousands of public servants in many agencies working to maintain, secure and protect critical infrastructure and the populace right here at home. Many of them are veterans who have carried their service to their country and the attendant oaths to bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution and to protect and defend it forward into their post military life where they continue to serve.

On this particular trip I was priveleged to work with a couple of them.

A similar pictorial presentation for a second trip can be reviewed at Maintaining and Securing infrastructure in Intermountain Fly-over Country - II.

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