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Article: Road trip: SDDC Southwest Asia works up front at Iraqi port of Umm Qasr.(Surface Deployment and Distribution Command)
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- Translog
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- September 22, 2004
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In the future, the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on the Khor Abdullah Waterway bordering the Persian Gulf, is an ultimate transportation solution.
The deepwater port has container cranes and a direct rail link to Baghdad.
Although sometimes interrupted by hostile insurgent action along its rail line, the port is an important link for SDDC sustainment cargoes to Coalition forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
These days, however, danger may lurk.
This was evident on a recent trip to the port city escorted by Capt. Donald Hannah, Detachment Officer-in-Charge, 831st Transportation Battalion, Bahrain.
I was privileged to be among five SDDC ...