 The Air National Guard recently tasked the 149th Fireways Civil Engineer Squad to complete an innovative readiness training exercise with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. The IRT program is a Department of Defense initiative exclusive to the United States and its territories that delivers joint training opportunities to increase the pilot readiness. The project aims to build 14 houses for use by Cherokee veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. So we got here, we had one house that was about 25% ready. It had exterior walls up and some trusses. So we finished the entire roof for one house to put all the shingles, everything, and close it, watertight, put doors, windows in one house and then we did another house. It was just a foundation, concrete foundation. So we built all the exterior walls, interior walls and next couple of days we'll be doing the trusses and getting that ready for the, to do the same process for that house as well. Aside from achieving their construction goals, the CE Squadron has greatly benefited from their time at the project site. Well, we're getting a lot of training, you know, this is a good time. We have a lot of structural stuff going on here and that's good cross-training. I myself am an electrician but, you know, being CE, we got to kind of know each other jobs here and there, so to be more equipped to handle stuff, especially in the deploy setting, you know, so it will be very quick for our unit to get the mission done. Reporting for the 149th Fire Wing, I'm Tech Sergeant Samasa.