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6 May 22, 2015 Feature BULLSEYE

‘Dirt Boyz’: More than earth movers, shakers

By Airman 1st Class Jake Carter and it happens to be moving assigned to the 99th CES believe When Dirt Boyz deploy, their While deployed, Santiago was
earth most of the time, so we are they are integral. mission stays the same. the NCOIC of airfield mainte-
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs called Dirt Boyz,” said Tech. Sgt. nance, but he was involved in
Jake Quinories, 99th CES heavy “Stateside, we are all about “When we deploy, our pri- other projects that helped coali-
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, equipment NCO in charge. Pret- keeping up the base and run- mary focus is the runways. We tion partners.
Nev.—The 99th Civil Engineer ty much any heavy equipment ways,” said Staff Sgt. Josiah San- are incredibly proud of our con-
Squadron’s heavy equipment you see on base, we operate.” tiago, 99th CES heavy equipment tribution to the flying mission,” “We did a lot of (repairs), the
operators, known as the “Dirt journeyman. Santiago said. runways were not in the best
Boyz,” provide heavy lifting to The Dirt Boyz handiwork can shape because they had been
Nellis Air Force Base. be seen throughout the base. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jake Carter there for a long time,” Santiago
said. “We also did a lot of crane
“Heavy equipment” is a blan- “Some of our major accom- Staff Sgt. Josiah Santiago, 99th Civil Engineer Squadron heavy lifts, where we would lift up
ket term used for the numerous plishments you may see on a daily equipment journeyman, calls in a forklift to lift and place a conexs that would go down to
types of construction machines basis are the two round-a-bouts boulder into position as part of a “Dirt Boyz” project at Nellis Afghanistan to help build them
in the Air Force: cranes, bulldoz- on base. But some of our more Air Force Base, Nev., May 19. Dirt Boyz are in charge of all heavy up, and we helped build up the
ers, front end loaders, backhoes, recent work would be the new equipment on base, which include dump trucks, forklifts, loaders, Royal Australian Air Force.”
graders, dredges, hoists, drills, detour access road expansion excavators, bulldozers, bobcats, graders and cranes.
pumps and compressors are just near the horse stables behind With the amount of support
some of the equipment used by base housing, and the curb and the Dirt Boyz provide to the base,
the operators. gutter placed on Blytheville and the Airmen are proud of what
Range Road,” Quinories said. they do.
One of the Dirt Boyz missions “We also give backhoe support
is to make sure runways are to our fellow engineers for water “We do a lot, but we don’t
operational and safe for pilots breaks and the occasional cranes do it for the recognition, we do
during take offs and landings. support for CE or any personnel it because most of us love our
Additionally, they maintain on the flight line needing crane job,” Santiago said. “It’s a point of
sidewalks, roads, signs, crane support to swap out engines or pride to do it the best way. Every
support and anything related to propellers on certain aircraft.” time we want to give 100 percent,
base construction. and every Dirt Boy I have ever
With Dirt Boyz having a hand met is always proud, and we have
With the projects the Dirt in the majority of construction pride all the way down.”
Boyz support on base, it’s not projects on base, the approxi-
hard to imagine how they earned mately 35 Airmen and civilians
their nickname.

“We get dirty doing our job,

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