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       recovering a base after attack, found themselves performing beddown
       operation with equipment and mobility basing sets they had never
       seen before. Air Force Services personnel had to feed thousands of
       deployed troops and faced the prospect of employing mortuary skills
       they hoped they would never used

      Bare Base Concepts*
	The Air Force's mobility commitment in the post-World War II
       era required a capability to rapidly deploy aircraft, complete with
       supporting functions and facilities, capable of independently
       supporting and launching sustained combat operations with the same
       independence as fixed theater installations. However, it became
       clear that certain nations that might request assistance from the
       U.S. Air Force would balk at the construction of permanent bases or
       facilities on their territory. The answer was a basing system that
       could be transportable quickly erected capable of supporting air
       operations, and could be quickly dismantled. The Air Force had to
       become capable of operating from a bare base. The classic
       definition of a bare base was a site with a usable runway taxiway
       parking areas and a source of water that can be made potable.
      A bare base required  mobile facilities, utilities, and support
       equipment that could rapidly transform undeveloped real estate into
       an operational air base. 
       The Air Force teas been working on the development of
       transportable facilities for use at remote and austere locations
       since the 1950. The original portable basing set, Gray Eagle was
       designed to support an 1100-person deployment. The Air Force first
       used it during the Vietnam War at Cam Ranh Bay and Phan Rang Air
       Bases (ABs)] e In the late 1960s, the package was expanded and made
       more air transportable and given the name Harvest Eagle. The Air
       Force expanded its mobility basing concept with Harvest Bare, a new
       set of facilities that were lightweight, modular, and designed to
       be C-130 transportable. Some of the facilities were designed to be
       hardwall and would serve as their own shipping containers. The Air
       Force tested and validated the Harvest Bare design in 1970 as
       Created in the 1980s, Harvest Falcon combined aspects of both
       Harvest Eagle and Harvest Bare designs. Harvest Falcon was
       designed specifically for Southwest Asia (SWAT operations (i.e. no
       freeze protection]. The most common personnel shelter was the
       TEMPER (Tent, Extendable, Modular, Personnel) Tent. These tan-
       colored, soft-wall structures were modular, frame-supported tents
       that could be assembled without tools. Each section was twenty
       feet wide and eight feet long. The standard billeting TEMPER Tent
       comprised four sections. The tents included lighting, liners,
       Insulated floors, and an air conditioning distribution system.
       Environmental control units both cooled and heated the tents. An
       experienced crew of four could assemble a four-section TEMPER Tent
       in about an hour.
       Harvest Falcon used Harvest Bare structures such as the
       expandable personnel shelters (EXPs). These units featured