On a particularly warm, sunny day at Vandenberg, an unheralded group of utility workers take on a dirty job at a place where the sun never shines: in the depths of the base’s sanitary sewer system.
Donning their personal protective equipment, 30th Civil Engineer Squadron utilities craftsmen Master Sgt. Herman Ybarra, Staff Sgt. Jonathan Rivera, Staff Sgt. Brian Young and Jay Lawrence, led Col. Richard Boltz, 30th Space Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Angelica Johnson, 30th SW command chief, through the process of cleaning a fraction of the base’s more than 100,000-feet of sewer mains Aug. 26. The day’s task: cleaning a 400-foot section of the sewer system using a jetter truck.
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