Quartermaster Company replaces another; undergoes Humvee rollover training

Courtesy Photo | Spc. Joseph McCauley, storage section specialist with the 565th Quartermaster Company, 110th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 224th Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), and a Los Angeles native, unwraps a multipack box in the receiving section of the supply support activity Oct. 25 at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by 2nd Lt. Patryk Korzeniewski)  

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, IRAQ

10.25.2010

Courtesy Story

224th Sustainment Brigade

2nd Lt. Patryk Korzeniewski
224th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq— The 565th Quartermaster Company, 110th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 224th Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), arrived from Fort Hood, Texas, to replace the 40th Quartermaster Company out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, recently at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq.

Prior to setting foot in Iraq, the 565th Quartermaster Company arrived in Kuwait, and went through five days of mandatory training. The training consisted of counter-insurgency, Humvee and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle rollover training.

During the MRAP training, Spc. Lee Nelson, storage clerk with the 565th Quartermaster Company, and a Gainesville, Fla., native, found that exiting an overturned MRAP was challenging. “The MRAP training was fun, but falling on my head kind of hurt,” he said.

Following their training, the 565th Quartermaster Company went to the airfield to finish their move to COB Adder.

Once a container truck arrived, gear was loaded and the 565th Quartermaster Company continued on to the airbase, loaded onto the aircraft, and headed to COB Adder to begin the relief-in-place process with the 40th Quartermaster Company.

Since arriving in theater in October, the 565th Quartermaster Company has been working closely with their counterparts in the 40th Quartermaster Company.

“The takeover process was very streamlined,” said 1st Lt. Grant Workman, platoon leader with the 565th Quartermaster Company, and a Chicago native. “The 40th QM gave us pretty much everything we needed.”

During the changeover, a massive inventory of the supply support activity took place, encompassing some 11,000 different lines of stock and taking five days to complete. With the inventory complete, the 565 Quartermaster Company is poised to take over supply support operations. Along with the SSA mission, the 565th Quartermaster Company is running food supply, a hazardous materials yard, and the empty container collection point.

• Date Taken: 10.25.2010
• Date Posted: 11.22.2010 06:43
• Story ID: 60631
• Location: CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, IQ