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CAMP RAVENNA, Ohio - Soldiers of the Chillicothe-based 1194th Engineer Company, Ohio Army National Guard, have spent their 2011 two-week annual training period building additional living facilities and office space to accommodate nearly 300 soldiers at this Northeast Ohio training center.
Since 2006, and through numerous annual training periods, Ohio National Guard soldiers have completed extensive construction and improvement projects in and around Camp Ravenna. These projects will allow the facility to accommodate additional military training, from weapons qualification ranges to construction training areas.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Coleman Johnson, officer-in-charge of construction and an Ashland, Ky., native, said this project is significant for the training it allows.
“We are putting a dividing wall into a building to create male and female barracks,” Johnson said. “While it’s not a huge project, we’ve been having the more experienced soldiers teaching the younger ones, step by step.”
Johnson said his platoon performed a lot of concrete work over the last few years of annual training. Because of this, many of the younger soldiers are not that experienced in construction framing work.
“Because of spending more time to teach the younger soldiers the step by step of framing, the length of the project has increased a bit,” Johnson said. “We are also letting this become a great learning experience.”
Spc. Kaleb Coleman, Williamsport resident, said he liked how the soldiers are being given a chance to learn.
“The instructors that we have are able to teach things at a down-to-earth level,” Coleman said. “The young guys who don’t know are learning quickly.”
| Date Taken: | 06.07.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 06.29.2011 12:03 |
| Story ID: | 72951 |
| Location: | CAMP RAVENNA, OHIO, US |
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