Fuller Tours Expanding Stryker Repair Facility in Qatar

Area Support Group Qatar Public Affairs Office
Photo by Dustin Senger

Date: 04.14.2010
Posted: 04.14.2010 02:17


CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar – U.S. Army Col. Lawrence Fuller was in Qatar, April 14, touring the only Stryker battle damage repair facility in the Middle East. Fuller completed a two-day tour of Army Materiel Command warehouses at Camp As Sayliyah, a week ahead of taking command of 402nd Army Field Support Brigade at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 401st AFSB – a 402nd AFSB subordinate unit – manage AMC facilities in Qatar. In early March, the 1-401st AFSB started receiving Stryker equipment from a forward repair area in Iraq, amid a drawdown of U.S. forces.

General Dynamics Land Systems contractors met with Fuller to explain expanding Stryker repair and retrofit capabilities in Qatar. A shift in theater equipment is introducing several more repair options: wheels and tires; full-up power packs; remote weapons stations; and vehicle electronics. A second warehouse has been claimed for additional storage space.

U.S. Central Command war fighters depend on Strykers to tear through terrain with more than 20 tons of armor, mechanical parts, weaponry systems and life-saving equipment. The light-armored, wheeled vehicles are capable of traversing paved streets and soft off-road regions, while providing protection from enemy fire and roadside explosions.

Strykers with extensive battle damage are repaired at Camp As Sayliyah. GDLS welders and mechanics mend and patch warped and penetrated hulls. Retrofit kits are applied to bring vehicles to current configurations. A series of inspections and road tests ensure vehicles appear and function like those fresh out of production.

More than 200 battle-damaged Strykers have been repaired in Qatar since 2005.


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In the second and last photo in this news article is Bill Sheratt, from Stoke-on-Trent, England and we worked together at the EDC in Germersheim, Germany in 2008. Bill shipped out for the Stryker FRA (forward repair activity) in Balad, Iraq just before I retured home that same year.

We went to Krakow, Poland together in July 2008 along with his wife, who was a co-worker, and a couple of Germans who worked for GDLS as shown in my photo album and gallery on the google picasa website.

Bill is seen standing next to his wife in the following photo from Poland at the infamous Auschwitz prison gate. Shown left to right is Paul Baggett, Heiko Benz, T-Dog, Bill and his wife.
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Shown left to right is Bill, his wife, Paul Baggett, Heiko Benz and T-Dog.
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Bill and Heiko are shown in deep thought in this execution galley photo. It's the spot where the camp commander was hanged by the Nazi SS officers. [photo]

In the following photo Bill and his wife are shown leaving the crematorium.
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We'll see President Barack Obama in the news this weekend attending the funeral of the recently deceased Polish president in Krakow, Poland.

Photos provided courtesy of Philip Atkins of Tacoma, Washington. All rights reserved.


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Fuller Tours Expanding Stryker Repair Facility in Qatar


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