Pier 8 conducts military equipment retrograde from Foal Eagle

Photo By Pfc. Sung Eun Kim | A Marine cargo specialist of the 837th Transportation Battalion preps a M1128 Mobile Gun System to be uploaded onto the Military Vessel Green Ridge during a combined Stryker Upload and Army Material Command Retrograde Operations May 17 at Pier 8, Busan. These operations are part of the inaugural uploading of the Stryker combat system from the Republic of Korea back to Hawaii May 17 to May 18 at Pier 8, Busan after their support for Foal Eagle 2012, an annual U.S. forces Korea warfighter exercise.  

BUSAN, DAEGU GWANG'YEOGSI [TAEGU-KWANGYOKSHI], SOUTH KOREA

06.05.2012

Story by Pfc. Sung Eun Kim 

19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command

BUSAN, South Korea — The 25th Transportation Battalion, 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, assisted the 837th Transportation Battalion in discharging 136 pieces of cargo and uploading 200 pieces onto Military Vessel Green Ridge May 17 at Pier 8.

The uploaded cargo included 36 Strykers from this year’s Foal Eagle exercise, as well 48 M1A1s, and 58 Bradley tracked vehicles.

They will be retrograded back to the United States May 17-19.

• Date Taken: 06.05.2012
• Date Posted: 06.05.2012 04:06
• Story ID: 89430
• Location: BUSAN, DAEGU GWANG'YEOGSI [TAEGU-KWANGYOKSHI], KR