10th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Office

Story by Camilla Swain

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – The long wait is finally over, as new safes have arrived for Bravo Detachment, 101st Financial Management Company, out of Fort Campbell, Ky., 208th FM Co., Troops Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade. The new safes are a welcome arrival, as the old safes were not in compliance with current regulations.

"Getting these new safes to the Finance Office was really a team effort," said Cpl. Daniel Valoaga a Junction City, Kan., native, and a certifier for the unit. "We coordinated with the personnel in Official Mail to utilize one of their vehicles to pick up the safes from the Central Receiving and Shipping Point Yard. We put in a work order with the KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) Movement Control Team to acquire a forklift and forklift driver to move the safes on and off the vehicles. We borrowed jacks from the 96th Transportation Company and personnel from the finance detachment at Hammer also helped us move the safes into the Finance Office. Overall, it was a huge team effort."

"Seeing new safes delivered to Camp Taji was exciting for me as a Disbursing Agent," said 2nd Lt. Katherine Palesky of Plano, Texas, the disbursing agent for the detachment. "Our safes must meet the regulations to ensure proper security of the funds. Our current safes have gotten a lot of use as finance detachments have transitioned in and out of Camp Taji, and it's a luxury to have brand new safes here."

Now that the new safes are inside the vault, it allows the flexibility for Palesky to place all the funds according to denominations separated from the Iraqi Dinar. The vault is now complete and sets the incoming unit up for success in the future of finance operations on Camp Taji.

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