Army news service (July 10, 2006): equipment reutilization saves taxpayer dollars.TIKRIT, Iraq -- Supply specialists at Contingency Operating Base Speicher can now supply their soldiers with needed equipment and save taxpayers money at the same time. The Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office opened for business last month near Tikrit. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The DRMO DRMO Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (US DoD) DRMO Defense Reutilization Management Office DRMO Division Resource Management Office redistributes or disposes excess or damaged property and supplies no longer needed by military units. The inventory ranges from air conditioners and vehicles to clothing and computers. The impact on units in and around COB Speicher is already showing. "DRMO has been a great help throughout our deployment," said Capt. Andy Baker, company commander for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Special Troops Battalion A Special Troops Battalion (STB) has companies from different branches of the Army under a Headquarters & Headquarters Company (HHC). In an Infantry Brigade Combat Team, the STB has an HHC, an Military Intelligence, a Signal, and an Engineer Company. , 3rd Brigade Combat Team The brigade combat team (BCT) is the basic deployable unit of maneuver in the US Army. A brigade combat team consists of one combat arms branched maneuver brigade, and its attached support and fire units. , 101st Airborne Division. "Since arriving in Iraq, my company has constantly received the newest and best equipment the Army has to offer, rendering obsolete many of the items that we received from the unit we took over from," Baker said. "DRMO has helped ease the burden of accounting for property that we don't need and allowed us to turn it in a timely fashion." War and contingency operations generate considerable amounts of refuse, damaged property, and hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. . Such items must be handled and disposed of properly. DRMO's purpose is to make sure all efforts are made to reutilize or demilitarize de·mil·i·ta·rize tr.v. de·mil·i·ta·rized, de·mil·i·ta·riz·ing, de·mil·i·ta·riz·es 1. To eliminate the military character of. 2. militarily significant equipment. The current DRMO team is made up of members from all Services as well as civilians. "We established the working plans for running a DRMO yard and a fully functional facility at Speicher by working with the 101st Airborne Division," said Air Force Reserve Capt. Raul Trevino. "The work had long tedious hours, over 100[degrees] weather, and hostile terrain ... but we got it done." Haley writes for the 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, or MPAD, is a type of unit found in the United States Army. Background A Mobile Public Affairs Detachment is a modular, task organizable unit that normally augments a corps public affairs section or a Public Affairs Operations . Sgt. Waine D. Haley, USA |
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