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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WOLVERINE, Afghanistan - Dramatic changes have overcome Forward Operating Base Wolverine as it prepares to be transferred to the Afghan National Army. With a third of the residents gone from the only FOB owned by an aviation task force, Wolverine’s main occupants now are engineers from the 984th Engineer Company, 92nd Engineer Battalion, of Fort Stewart, Ga.
The 984th teamed with the existing soldiers of the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade to scale down the base to a size the ANA can sustain – one of the many retrograding projects that are occurring on FOBs in Zabul province as the 2014 withdrawal edges closer. It’s a long and tedious process because everything outside the newly built inner-perimeter must be torn down.
“What’s next is to finish tearing down everything we have left outside the new perimeter,” said U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Alexander Carlton, 984th Engineer Company, 92nd Engineer Battalion out of Fort Stewart, Ga. “Once that gets torn down we’ll transition to the final footprint of the new perimeter we have now.”
The new perimeter around the inner core of the base is much smaller. Engineers said it’s a big project, but one that will be completed within the coming months.
| Date Taken: | 07.21.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 07.25.2013 06:06 |
| Story ID: | 110773 |
| Location: | ALABAMA, US |
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