'Scorpions' build new stock control and transportation office

Courtesy Photo | The outside of the "Scorpion" ammunition supply point building. The building will be used to manage the transportation of their ammunition assets, and plan the location of ammunition throughout the ASP.  

QAYYARAH, IRAQ

06.15.2009

Courtesy Story

3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE Q-WEST, Iraq — Soldiers from the 351st Ordnance Company and the 30th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, along with the Department of Public Works here, built a new stock control and transportation office at the "Scorpion" ammunition supply point.

The aim for this new building is to provide the 351st Ord. Co., with a stock control and transportation office they we can effectively move and track ammunition throughout their area of operations providing coalition forces with the ammunition to help secure Iraqi communities throughout the theater.

During the construction process, the Soldiers from the 30th CSSB and 351st Ord. Co., project managers coordinated all the different tasks associated with building the new stock control and transportation office. The project managers coordinated with the 30th CSSB supply section to gather the supplies needed. The battalion's Soldiers request and/or managed work orders for the new building, ensuring all mandatory inspections were completed, and the building was built to fire code.

DPW workers provided the labor needed to build the new building as they handled all of the construction, the woodworking, the doors, air conditioning and flooring installation.

• Date Taken: 06.15.2009
• Date Posted: 06.15.2009 13:43
• Story ID: 35091
• Location: QAYYARAH, IQ