Brockenbrough Wins Design for $12.5 Million Project at Diego Garcia

Brockenbrough just won the design portion of a $12.5 million project, partnering with ITSI.  Brockenbrough will perform the design services on an SRM design-build project to Repair POL Systems at Defense Fuel Support Point (DFSP) Diego Garcia. 

Diego Garcia is an island in the Chagos chain of islands, located about 7 degrees south of the equator in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is approximately 1,800 nautical miles (3,300 km) east of the African coast and 1,200 nautical miles (2,200 km) south of the southern tip of India.  The island is part of BIOT (the British Indian Ocean Territory).  

Our brave, and hopefully not too sleep-deprived, engineers took this crazy flight to get there:

Richmond to San Francisco to Tokyo to Singapore.  Once in Singapore, they waited for an Air Mobility Command (AMC) flight to take them to Diego Garcia (which sometimes takes days to catch a flight!).  Since the island is used exclusively as a U.S. military base, only military planes fly in and out of the island.

Phew! And you thought your flight to see grandma in Boca this summer was long.

They're back, safe and sound.  Stay tuned for updated pictures from the trip.