FRIDAY FOTO (May 8, 2020)

Urgent Night Work.

(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kevin Tanenbaum)

Even in an era of cyber warfare, stealthy aircraft and robots, droids and drones, sometimes the key person in a crisis works with a shovel.

Senior Airman Zaldy Edjan is a water fuel systems maintenance technician with the  386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron.  This strikingly stark photo, taken May 1, shows him shoveling dirt and debris kicked up by a wheel saw used to cut a concrete runway. Edjan was participating in rapid airfield damage recovery, or RADR, training at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.

RADR training teaches Airmen how to rebuild a damaged runway after an attack in a short amount of time to get planes back in the air.