Construction « Outside the Wire"

In late 2007, during the Afghanistan War, Task Force Kandahar planned to implement an 18-month “Shape-Clear-Hold-Build” counter-insurgency strategy. In early December 2007, 14 Construction Engineering Squadron (14 CES) was asked if the unit could assemble a team to form the nucleus of a unit to provide ‘a protected construction engineer capability.’ This was the genesis of the Construction Management Organization (CMO).