Marine motor transport on the move in Mozambique during Shared Accord 2010

Photo By Cpl. Jad Sleiman | Cpl. Daniel Guilliams, a motor transport operator with 4th Landing Support Battalion based in Vienna, Ohio, secures water tanks to a tactical vehicle at the Moamba motor pool. With more than 100 vehicles at their disposal, motor transport Marines sourced from 4th Landing Support Battalion in Vienna, Ohio, and Headquarters and Services Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines in Garden City, NY, have been criss-crossing southern Mozambique delivering service members and supplies since arriving in late July for Exercise SHARED ACCORD 2010. The exercise, which is a U.S. Africa Command sponsored, bi-lateral military event and humanitarian mission, is hosted by a different AFRICOM partner nation each year. SA10 brings together more than 1,000 U.S. service members and Mozambican soldiers for the purpose of increasing Mozambique’s capacity to carry out peace and stability operations.  

MOAMBA, MOZAMBIQUE

08.05.2010

Story by Lance Cpl. Jad Sleiman 

U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa     

MOAMBA, Mozambique — Medicine, water, Marines and ammunition; motor transport Marines here make sure the essential ingredients of Exercise Shared Accord 2010 are in place and on time.

“If no motor-t were here there would be no movement,” said Staff Sgt. Nkrumah Pollard, a maintenance chief with 4th Landing Support Battalion. “We are the corner stone of all transportation here.”

With more than 100 vehicles at their disposal, the reserve Marines, sourced from 4th LSB in Vienna, Ohio, and Headquarters and Services Company 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines in Garden City, N.Y., have been criss-crossing southern Mozambique delivering service members and supplies since their arrival here in late July for SA10, a U.S. Africa Command sponsored, bi-lateral military exercise and humanitarian mission hosted by a different AFRICOM partner nation each year.

Lance Cpl. Adrien Rosamond, a motor transport operator who drives 7-tons and Humvees, has had little rest since arriving in Mozambique July 25.

“Since we’re so short on drivers I’ve had a lot of driving time; it’s good training,” he said. “We’ll be driving all day and about to hit the rack when another convoy comes up.”

From the capital city of Maputo, to remote training areas, villages and everywhere in between, Rosamond follows one rule: “take it slow, take it safe.”

Shared Accord 2010, which is coordinated by U.S. Africa Command’s Marine component, U.S. Marine Forces Africa, brings together more than 1,000 U.S. service members and Mozambican soldiers for the purpose of increasing Mozambique’s capacity to carry out peace and stability operations.

• Date Taken: 08.05.2010
• Date Posted: 08.05.2010 02:29
• Story ID: 53967
• Location: MOAMBA, MZ