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VICKSBURG, Miss.--Designed to provide immediate technical engineering support to the Warfighter or in a disaster area, the Forward Engineer Support Teams – Main and Augmentation (FEST- M and FEST-A) bring a small team of experts, equipment and reach back capabilities that are the equivalent of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district office.
The FEST-A or Ms may accompany combat engineers to provide immediate support, or to reach back electronically to the rest of the Corps for the necessary expertise. The teams may be tapped to support disaster recovery efforts and they are willing to go anywhere in the world when called upon.
A FEST-A or augmentation team is an eight-person detachment. A FEST-M is comprised of 36 individuals. These teams of Corps professionals use the knowledge and skills honed on military and civil projects to support the U.S. government as well as local communities in the areas of real estate, contracting, mapping, construction, logistics, engineering and management experience.
FESTs recently supported rebuilding efforts in Iraq and are currently deployed to Afghanistan to establish a national infrastructure, and are supporting international and interagency services.