Iraqi Transporters Hit the Road: General Transportation Regiment Graduates Training at Taji
3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary)
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Date: 10.23.2008
Posted: 10.23.2008 02:43
By the 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Public Affairs Office
TAJI, Iraq – As Iraqi army and coalition partners looked on, roughly 600 Iraqi army sustainers of the General Transportation Regiment graduated from training in a ceremony, Oct. 23, 2008.
The GTR graduation was another step in a growing partnership between the regiment's Soldiers and leaders and their mentors from the 1st Sustainment Brigade's 68th Transportation Company. The Mannheim-based 68th Trans. Co. has spent the past two months training and mentoring the new unit.
With a number of dignitaries in attendance, the unit conducted a parade, demonstrated its skills and was inspected by Iraqi Maj. Gen. Kassim, the director of transportation and provision for the ministry of defense.
After graduation, the GTR will assume an important mission leading towards Iraqi army self-sustainment. On the ground since Sept. 1, 2008, the GTR is the first unit of its kind to provide the assets and manpower needed to distribute all classes of supplies to location commands positioned throughout Iraq.
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