Wilhite attends Distinguished Visitor Day in support of Joint Innovative Readiness Training Project

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  • By Deidre Ortiz
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ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, TENN. --  Cmdr. David Wilhite of the U.S. Navy Reserve, Commander of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14, attended a Distinguished Visitor Day in support of a Joint Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) Project. Wilhite also serves as the Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements program manager at AEDC.

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14, with the assistance from the 7th Naval Construction Regiment and Naval Construction Group 2, staffed and deployed five Detachment Rotations in support of the IRT Project to construct a Dining Facility at Camp William Hinds in Maine from June to August 2016. NMCB 14, along with the 141st Prime Beef Civil Engineering Squadron and the 155th Prime Beef Civil Engineering Squadron, provided multi-disciplined construction support.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage was the distinguished visitor at Camp William Hinds Boy Scout Camp in Raymond on July 26, as the Innovative Readiness Training Program, through the military, hosted its Distinguished Visitors Day.

The program focuses on real world experiences in military training, and the project benefits the Boy Scouts through building a dining hall at their camp site, an addition they needed to bring in scouts from across the United States.

The materials were donated through local building suppliers and donations.

Scout Executive Eric Tarbox also noted that the dining hall would not have been possible without the military's help.

"We would never have been able to afford the labor and the materials and the effort, the experience that the military brings to the table, we're not only helping them train around the world to do their job, but we're also enabling a facility that we'd never be able to build ourselves,” he said.

Some of the information included in this release was taken from the Aug. 11 issue of the Seabee Courier.

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