Busy "BEEs" break in new home Published Dec. 18, 2007 By Staff Sgt. Jacob R. McCarthy Nellis AFB Public Affairs NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- A new $1.9 million, 4,800 square-foot building became home to the Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight Dec. 12, after a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The building, designed to increase the flight's mission capabilities and emergency response, will house more than 15 Airmen and contracted technicians while providing more storage space and allow technicians to be better organized, said Senior Master Sgt. Bobby McGregor, Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight superintendent. The BEE flight is in the business of preventative medicine. By analyzing various systems and substances across base, technicians of the Industrial Hygiene, Readiness and Radiation, and Environmental sections devise precursors and processes to help keep everyone on Nellis safe. From checking sound levels on the flightline, surveying industrial radiological operations at the hospital to collecting air, water and soil samples for analysis, BEE's keep Airmen ready to fight. "Preventing Airmen from getting sick or harmed through preventative medicine, helps save lives," said Sergeant McGregor. The new facility gives our technicians in-house test and analysis capabilities which will help save Air Force expenditures and provide quicker sampling results to leadership, said Sergeant McGregor.
