Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq
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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release No. 080619-01
June 19, 2008
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Iraqi Army consolidating spare parts logistics

TAJI, Iraq – During the next few months, the Iraqi Army will merge its two main spare parts depots for military equipment into a new facility at the Taji National Depot.

The new Class IX warehouse building is up and the shelves are scheduled to be installed July 7, but already most of the parts purchased through the Foreign Military Sales program have been moved from their old warehouse. Several hundred shipping containers of materiel purchased with Iraqi Security Forces Funds are scheduled to be moved soon from the Taji Central Warehouse.

“We are still in the early transition stages, setting up the warehouse properly,” said U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Tyrene Covington, support operations NCOIC at TND. “The supplies that are most easily stolen are already inside the buildings and when the shelves are installed, beginning next month, we will start moving everything else in. Eventually all supplies shipping and receiving will be handled right here.”

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