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By Anthony Hooker
215th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
CONTINGENCY OPERATION BASE Q-WEST, IRAQ – The 3rd Sustainment Brigade, serving under the 3d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), completed a 15-month tour of duty at Contingency Operating Base Q-West, Aug. 9, 2008, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Led by Col. Darrell K. Williams, the 3d SB successfully provided sustainment and distributional support to over 70,000 service members, contractors, and Department of Defense civilians located at Multi-National Division – North.
Beginning in June 2007, the 4,025 Soldiers with the 3d SB provided sustainment in support of counter-insurgency operations, provided logistical training and advisory teams to improve the Iraq army's logistical resources and developed a non-lethal engagement strategy to assist the transition to a stable and self-reliant Iraq.
With 169 units at 25 locations spread across an area the size of Pennsylvania, the 3rd SB compiled the following statistics during OIF 07-09:
• Drove 7.85 million miles while conducting 3,780 combat logistical patrols
• Issued nearly 134 million gallons of fuel throughout MND-North
• Issued over 7.2 million cases of water and over 126,000 Meals Ready to Eat
• Repaired over 16,000 pieces of equipment
• Delivered 26.9 million pounds of mail
Reinforcing their non-lethal engagement strategy, the 3rd SB employed 497 Iraqis on COB Q-West (including eight Iraqi business and four contracting groups), conducted 14 job-training sessions and joined forces with local Iraqi army units to two civil-medical engagements. Units under the 3rd SB also conducted Adopt-A-Highway clean up events and distributed over 2,000 sundry and school packs.
Finally, the 3rd SB secured funding for over 85 base projects, including improving the dental and troop medical clinic, expansion of the ammunition supply point, and the relocation of the postal hub from Forward Operating Base Marez.
The cost for the projects totaled 148 million dollars. Col. Darrell K. Williams, commander of the 3rd SB, said during his farewell speech that his Soldiers were worth every bit of the money spent.
"During this deployment," Williams said, "the Warriors of the 3rd Sustainment Brigade taught me if you take care of Soldiers, the mission will happen."
| Date Taken: | 08.26.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 08.26.2008 16:56 |
| Story ID: | 22899 |
| Location: | QAYYARAH, IQ |
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