533rd FEST-M teammates in Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN — Ed McBride (left), civil engineer with 533rd Engineer Detachment, and Dan Potter, contracting officer's representative, stand in one of the lanes at the SPC Jeremy J. Loveless Blow-in-Place Engineer Training Facility at Kandahar Airfield on March 17. McBride designed the facility and Potter oversaw construction. Students operate robots from the vehicles in the background to inspect via camera suspected improvised explosive devices and to place charges to blow-in-place.