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Eastern Castle

At EASTERN CASTLE 93, the 823 RED HORSE Squadron constructed two 12,000 square-foot K-Span warehouses to store CENTAF War Readiness Materials (WRM) assets.

At EASTERN CASTLE 95, a classified location within Southwest Asia, the 823 RED HORSE Squadron placed concrete for 33,500 square feet of runway touchdown area paved 2,500 linear feet of runway shoulders, and chip sealed an additional 9,500 linear feet of shoulders at the same location. This effort greatly improved the runway's ability to support heavy aircraft, such as, the C-5 and KC-10, which were heavily used in CENTAF and CENTCOM exercises at that location.

Hurlburt Field's 16th Special Operations Wing 823rd Red Horse Squadron deployed to Thumrait AB, Oman 17 April 1996 to take part in an exercise with the Omani military called Eastern Castle, helping build runway and apron extensions and installing overhead lighting in aircraft hangars. Members of the 28th Air Expeditionary Group departed from Ellsworth AFB, SD on 21 November 1998, enroute to their deployed site, Thumrait AB, Oman.

Members of U.S. Central Command's Air Force component (USCENTAF) participated in an exercise-related construction project known as Eastern Castle 97-7 in the United Arab Emirates beginning July 1, 1997. The exercise focused on the construction of a military vehicle wash facility at the Al-Hamra training area base camp. This facility will allow the cleaning of exercise vehicles and equipment prior to loading ships or aircraft for redeployment. The facility will be used by United States and host nation military forces.

EASTERN CASTLE was a major Overseas Deployment Training [ODT] deployment to Egypt which affected the deployment of over 360 soldiers. Confusion regarding ODT line authorization and who was included in the ODT line authorization impacted the publication of orders. Unless resolved, this confusion would place a major ODT deployment/exercise with a budget over $4 million at risk. IR was directly responsible for solving confusion over rotation order issues which had an impact of over $110,000.