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The Mountain View - 15 May 2009
Thursday, 14 May 2009
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IA trains to improve maintenance, logistics
FOB HUNTER – One of the biggest challenges the Iraqi Army faces is the shortage of repair parts in its supply system. So Soldiers assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division “Black Dragons” spent the last two months teaching their Iraqi counterparts the process of preventive maintenance and ordering replacement parts here. “The key was to develop a training plan that could convey the importance of operator-level preventive maintenance along with higher levels of repairing vehicles and ordering parts,” said Maj. David McCulley, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment executive officer from Springdale, Ark.
Micro-grant helps start Iraqi vet clinic
FOB DELTA – Economic growth for small businesses is hard enough to accomplish in an established free-market such as the United States, let alone a new democracy getting on its feet. One of the tools available for small business owners in Iraq is the micro-grant, which a local veterinarian in Numaniyah is using to get his clinic up and running.
