Feb. 2 - Base Exercise

2nd Lt. Raza Alyas, (left) 88th Aerospace Medicine bioenvironmental engineer, and Senior Airman Alex Shuttleworth (right) bioenvironmental engineer, check for cyanide using a M272 Chemical Warfare Agent testing kit, as part of a base exercise scenario revolving around a threat to the base’s critical water and infrastructure, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2017. The kit detects and identifies dangerous levels of common warfare agents in raw and treated water in about seven minutes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michelle Gigante)

2nd Lt. Raza Alyas, (left) 88th Aerospace Medicine bioenvironmental engineer, and Senior Airman Alex Shuttleworth (right) bioenvironmental engineer, conduct water tests using a M272 Chemical Warfare Agent testing kit, as part of a base exercise scenario revolving around the threat to the base’s critical water and infrastructure, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2017. The testing kit is used to identify toxic agents such as lewisite, nerve, cyanide, and mustard agents. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michelle Gigante)

2nd Lt. Raza Alyas, (left) 88th Aerospace Medicine bioenvironmental engineer, and Senior Airman Alex Shuttleworth (right) bioenvironmental engineer, perform water tests as part of a base exercise scenario revolving around a threat to the base’s critical water and infrastructure, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2017. Individual test samples were used to determine the PH, conductivity, turbidity, free available chlorine and total chlorine of the water. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michelle Gigante)

2nd Lt. Raza Alyas, (left) 88th Aerospace Medicine bioenvironmental engineer, and Senior Airman Alex Shuttleworth (right) bioenvironmental engineer, perform water tests as part of a base exercise scenario revolving around a threat to the base’s critical water and infrastructure, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2017. Individual test samples were used to determine the PH, conductivity, turbidity, free available chlorine and total chlorine of the water. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michelle Gigante)

2nd Lt. Raza Alyas, 88th Aerospace Medicine bioenvironmental engineer, views the results of a test tube sample using a Chlorine DPD octet comparator, as part of a base exercise scenario revolving around a threat to the base’s critical water and infrastructure, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2017. Individual test samples were used to determine the PH, conductivity, turbidity, free available chlorine and total chlorine of the water. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michelle Gigante)