Photo By Master Sgt. Terysa King | CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea— Shower/laundry and clothing repair specialists of the...... read more read more
Like other units, the 348th Quartermaster Company, 194th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 2nd Sustainment Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, brought their equipment out into the field. Unlike other units, the 348th QMC didn’t focus on bringing tactical vehicles to use in battle, they brought a laundry system.
This system, known as a Laundry Advanced System, or LADS, provided clean laundry for soldiers in the field during Warrior Strike IX Dec. 11-15, who did not have the ability to wash clothes.
Pvt. Diana Velasco, a 92S, shower/laundry and clothing repair specialist, said with the LADS, her crew was able to support up to 500 personnel and wash up to 7,500 pounds of laundry a day. In order to wash clothes, she uses an on board microprocessor that controls all functions.
“Everything is on a screen,” Velasco said. “To start it you press ‘laundry operations’ and you can choose from different cycles. There’s two washer and dryer drums that will hold at least 28 bundles of laundry.”
During Warrior Strike IX, the 348th QMC supported the 210th Field Artillery Brigade as well as the 194th CSSB with the LADS.
“It helps boost the morale of the Soldiers,” Velasco said. “For example, if they were actually deployed, they see this and they see they’re actually going to have clean clothes.”
Sgt. Kiernico Reyes, LADS Noncommissioned Officer in Charge, said his crew ran into a challenge with the weather dipping into single digits, but they were able to overcome it by placing their LADS into a motorpool bay.
“This machine can only run in certain temperatures during the winter,” Reyes said. “The reason we put it in this bay is because we can’t run it below 32 degrees. If we put it outside, and we leave water inside, it’s going to expand and bust the pipes.”
In the future, the LADS will be used, along with a 12-head shower system currently undergoing maintenance, to support units during upcoming exercises such as Key Resolve.
“Last Key Resolve, Soldiers had to go back and forth to Warrior Base to do laundry. We’re doing our due diligence here,” Reyes said.
| Date Taken: | 01.10.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 09.06.2018 21:49 |
| Story ID: | 261698 |
| Location: | KR |
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