Intresting Note
Take Note if your building a base anywhere
1. A 30 vehicle initial convoy was required to make one FOB adequate for living and defendable in Afghanistan; subsequently needed another 20 trucks of supplies, 8 fuel trucks, and 2 trucks carrying a Bobcat and a Small Emplacement Excavator (SEE)
2. “In addition to normal logistics packages, the 411th Engineer Brigade sent more than 300 containers of lumber, concertina wire, and electrical parts to FOB Hammer” (Iraq)
3. A 600 soldier FOB requires a convoy of 22 trucks per day to supply the base with fuel or water and to truck away wastewater and solid waste
Tallil Air Force Base (now transferred back to Iraqi control), for example, was originally built for 3,000 soldiers and had 22 barracks, 32 headquarters buildings, 3 dining facilities, 7 warehouses, 7 maintenance facilities, and 29 other support buildings such as a firehouse, jail, and mosque. Utilities included wastewater treatment plants, water treatment plant, and an electrical generation plant.46 FOB Salerno had a gym, with exercise machines and big screen TVs, laundry, offices, hospital, morgue, and a church.47 Other FOBs had variations of similar facilities and equipment
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