MTMC moves helicopters for stateside upgrades.By truck, barge and ocean carrier, the Military Traffic Management Command A major command of the US Army, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated continental United States land transportation as well as common-user water terminal and traffic management service to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a has moved 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters from Europe to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. for upgrading. The helicopters arrived in Charleston, S.C., on June 25, aboard the Fidelio. From Charleston, the helicopters were transshipped for factory upgrades to the Longbow longbow Leading missile weapon of the English from the 14th century into the 16th century. Probably of Welsh origin, it was usually 6 ft (2 m) tall and shot arrows more than a yard long. avionics system. The shipping coordination and synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. was completed by the 838th Transportation Battalion's Rhine River Rhine River German Rhein River, western Europe. Rising in the Swiss Alps, it flows north and west through western Germany to drain through the delta region of The Netherlands into the North Sea. It is 820 mi (1,319 km) long and navigable for 540 mi (870 km). Detachment, Mannheim, Germany, and the 841st Transportation Battalion, in Charleston, S.C. Our customer was the 6-6 Calvary unit, in Illesheim, Germany. Moving these expensive pieces of equipment back to the United States involved a lot of hard work and coordination. The Apaches were flown from Illesheim to Coleman Barracks bar·rack 1 tr.v. bar·racked, bar·rack·ing, bar·racks To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters. n. 1. A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel. , in Mannheim, for preparation. The Army's contracting office in Stuttgart awarded a contract to Ned Lloyd to move the helicopters down a 10-mile stretch of highway, between Coleman Barracks and the Rhine River, by truck. From there, the helicopters were loaded on a roll-on/roll-off barge and moved to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for ocean shipment. We worked closely with the 293rd Base Support Battalion and the 2/502nd Aviation to make this a seamless move. The 293rd provided traffic control, medical support, military police and fire safety support. The 2/502nd made sure the equipment was properly configured and prepared for an ocean voyage. The unit also provided the contractor with technical assistance on how to handle the aircraft. When the helicopters arrived at Coleman Barracks, they were disassembled and shrink-wrapped. The disassembled pieces of the helicopters were then boxed up and sent to the commercial port in Mannheim for loading. The barge then went to the NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. ramp in Lampertheim, Mannheim, for the loading of the aircraft. The Apaches were loaded May 30 and arrived in Rotterdam the following day. From Rotterdam, the helicopters were transshipped to the United States aboard the Fidelio. |
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