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File: aabhn_01.txtSUBJECT: 4410 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING (P) CONTINGENCY HISTORIAL REPORT, 23 FEB 91 TRANSCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT 24 4410th OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING HISTORY 23 FEBRUARY 1991 (CASSETTE, IRIS NO. 00881368) Interview With: Col William C. Van Meter, Commander, 4410th OSW Conducted By: TSgt Barry L. Spink, Historian, 4410th OSW Transcribed By: Pauline Tubbs, Editorial Assistant, USAFHRC We have grown daily. We went from when I first got here having about 500 people to almost 2,000 folks now. We have built a lot more tents. We went from about 70 tents to 175 tents for billeting. We have also built a chapel and an MWR facility. We have added the latrine\shower tents; we have built them in different areas. We have gotten a lot of plywood, and we enhanced our tent and living areas and our common-use areas. We built a new 9-1 kitchen the day after Christmas and then put another addition to it just a couple of weeks ago, so we have got two 9-1 kitchens. We were originally feeding about 1,800 people in an 1,100-man capacity facility, but now we have got two 9-1 kitchens, so that gives us plenty of space. We got some vehicles in. That was one of our biggest problems also, getting commercial vehicles or general purpose type vehicles to help our people out. What we have here is a situation where we have about six different areas where people go to work. They live approximately anywhere from 9 to 15 kilometers from camp, so we have to transport 1,500 workers back and forth to work every day. It was like pulling teeth, but we finally got some buses and general
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