It didn’t take long for members of the 3rd Combat Communications Group from Tinker Air Force Base to prove their worth in Haiti.
Within 26 hours of hitting the ground Feb. 2, the 31 Airmen from the 3rd CCG, or 3rd Herd, had established a communications headquarters and soon began providing deployable communications capabilities to other U.S forces in the earthquake stricken area.
“It was pretty rough when we first got here,” Maj. Kenneth Bratland, 32nd Combat Communications Squadron commander, said recently via telephone. “The communications that were available when we first got here were spread out all over the place.”
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