Round shaped, pewter colored coin, 2 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • 371st Transportion Battalion
  • Joint Robotic Repair Detachment
Location
Coin Location: Panel 4 X
Homebase: Fort Sheridan, Illinois
Deployment: Baghdad, Iraq
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 16 May 2010
Donated by: MSG William Nusbaum
Copies: 1 of 1

C002189

Location: Panel 4 X Height: 2

Coin: Command - Deployment

Reserve » U.S. Army » Logistics - Transportation

Narrative

Round shaped, pewter colored coin, 2 inches in diameter.

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Journal - Page 48 - Line 35

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- A few Soldiers, Marines and civilians work with equipment right out of the pages of yesterday's science fiction when they keep a fleet of robots in the fight at the Joint Robotics Repair Detachment, or JRRD, located at Victory Base Complex in Baghdad, Iraq. The robots are not the lumbering hulks of old movies, nor are they the sleek, almost human creations of more recent films. They range in size from a few pounds to over 6 tons and offer Soldiers a way to gain situational awareness and search for improvised explosive devices and explosive-force projectiles from safe distances.

The team returns well over 90 percent of the equipment within the four hour time-frame. If JRRD can't fix the equipment within four hours, a one-for-one exchange is done and the damaged equipment is either repaired in JRRD's workshop or transferred to a facility with greater capability.