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Typical Military Installations

dee's steel forms and accessories are used to construct critical support infrastructure for domestic and overseas facilities, established bases and conflict areas/war zones.

WAR ZONES AND CONFLICT AREAS

When U.S. forces are deployed to war zones or conflict areas basic infrastructure for operations is often non-existent or, at minimum, requires upgrading. Typically this work is performed by military operational groups: the US Airforce Red Horse Brigade, the US Navy SeaBees, the US Army Construction Battalions as well as other selected military contractors. dee Concrete's forms and accessories are relied upon to quickly construct infrastructure such as:

• Airfield runways
• Helicoptor pads
• Building foundations
• Drainage gutters
• Roadways

HEAVY VEHICLE PARKING PADS

Due to the extreme weight of heavy military vehicles (weight can range from 34,000 to 48,000 lbs.) they must be parked on reinforced concrete pads. dee has all of the products necessary to build these oversized parking pads for long and short term storage. Sample large wheeled vehicles include:

• MRAPs (Mine Resistent Ambush Protected) combat vehicles
• Supply trucks and trailers
• Troop carriers
• Mobile gun systems

dee Products Used in Typical Military Installations

dee Product	Application
High Curb Forms	knee walls flight line service areas and barriers walkway protection in high traffic areas
Paving Forms	airport runways dock and wharf decks roadways heavy equipment driveways
Foundation Forms	grade foundations for service buildings barracks administration offices recreation areas parking pads
Curb and Gutter Forms	walkway protection drainage control
Flatwork Forms	walkways pads light vehicle driveways base lighting
Cold Roll Round Nail Stakes (3/4" and 7/8")	steel and wood forms
I-Beam Flat Stakes	wood forms signage
Form Braces	steel and wood form support
Stake Pullers	3/4" and 7/8" round nail stake removal I-Beam flat stake removal
Smooth Uncoated Dowels (1/2", 5/8", 3/4", and 1", any length); Grade 60 ASTM A615 domestic steel	reinforement for pavements, slabs and walkways structural reinforcement for concrete and masonry work
Custom Hand Tools (curb tools, nose tools, mules, straight edge pavers)	finish or free form slab edges, sidewalks and curb face profiles per specification

Following are several examples of US military installations around the globe including a flight line, a parking pad, custom form sets, an airfield, a vehicle maintenance building foundation, and infrastructure work.

Flight Line

 

Staff Sgt. Shawn Vanzandt pours cement at the barrier systerm on the flightline at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea.

Parking Pad

 

The 567th Rapid Engineers Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engneers (RED HORSE) Squadron (RHS) replaced a gravel parking area with a concrete parking lot at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Fort Smith, AK. Steel and wood forms like these are typically secured using dee's cold roll nail stakes.

Custom Form Sets

Airfield

Vehicle Maintenance Building

 

US Navy 070423-N-6436W-024 Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Batallion (NMCB) 4 and NMCB-28 work together to finish a concrete foundation using steel paving forms for a new vehicle maintenance building in Balad, Iraq.

Infrastructure Work