There are also mechanics, budget folks, payroll clerks, plumbers and draftsmen. On a typical day, ANC is just like any small enterprise where it's business as usual. Tree maintenance worker and leader Fisher and Lenwood Underhill, tractor operator, tend to a diseased sycamore tree threatening to fall on gravestones. I do what I do because I love trees, and I want to beautify Arlington. Tony McGill, a mechanic, works on one of Arlington's six backhoes.
Backhoes are the primary grave-digging tool at Arlington.
McGill said he is one of a large team of employees who make up Arlington National Cemetery. Ed Chavez, welder, puts the finishing touches on a stand for Robert F. Kennedy's gravesite. Cemetery personnel hope the signage will discourage visitors from throwing coins into the reflecting pool. Chavez plans, designs and creates ramps, barricades and gates for the cemetery. George F. Jones and Donald A. Carter, cemetery caretakers, prepare a grave for burial.