Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 04.05.2017
(Left) Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Lee, executive officer, MCLB Barstow, gazes at the inner workings of a 777 light howitzer as Bryan H. Wood, assistant deputy commandant, Installations and Logistics, has Doug Van Dyke, supervisor of the 777 light howitzer project at Production Plant Barstow, explain the pullback test they are about to perform on the artillery piece. William Beckley, production......
Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 04.05.2017
Bryan H. Wood, assistant deputy commandant, Installations and Logistics, sounds the whistle while backing up the U.S. Army locomotive used to move trains around the rail operations yard on the Yermo Annex of Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, April 4. The base boasts the largest railhead in the entire Department of Defense and is vital to moving equipment to and from the base as well as to......
Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 04.04.2017
Corey Sierra, a firefighter with the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow Fire Department, positions a ladder on a firetruck as he prepares to climb on to the roof of building 573 at Production Plant Barstow, Marine Depot Maintenance Command, aboard the Yermo Annex of MCLB Barstow. Sierra, a native of Las Vegas, was participating in a “stand off drill” to carefully position the truck and......
Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 03.24.2017
(Left) Sandra Murray takes pictures of the food donated to the charitable groups Blessings and Military Blessings in the parking lot of Bethany Christian Fellowship Church on Armory Road as volunteers prepare to hand out the foodstuffs to the crowd gathered along the fence, March 24. Murray founded the charities and is the wife of an active duty Army Soldier stationed at Marine Corps Logistics......
Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 03.24.2017
(Left) Ashley Shokorzadeh volunteers her time handing out food to more than 300 families from Barstow and surrounding communities March 24. The event was staged on the grounds of Bethany Christian Fellowhip Church on Armory Road....
Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 03.24.2017
Andrew Hecker and his 2-year-old son Ezekiel unload pallets of food in preparation for stacking in the parking lot of the Bethany Christian Fellowship Church on Amory Road March 24. Hecker donates his time to the food handout organized by the charitable groups Blessings and Military Blessings. The forklift is donated by Silver Valley Propane, Hecker’s employer....
Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 02.14.2017
Charles Allen is a heavy mobile equipment mechanic working on the LVSR AMKR line at Production Plant Barstow, Marine Depot Maintenance Command. Allen checks the operability of the lifting boom of the cargo model of the AMKR18, Feb. 14. The truck can haul up to a 20-foot cargo container, a troop carrier or a flatbed for transporting vehicles. It can also pull stuck vehicles out of situations....
Photo by Keith Hayes | Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow | 02.14.2017
All wheels on the cab portion of the LVSR AMKR line of vehicles are steerable. That feature coupled with the Caterpillar Inc., built 600 horsepower, in line 6 twin turbo engine and power to all wheels on the vehicle means this 22-ton truck can go off-roading with ease....
