Cover: The Ordnance Corps celebrates its
bicentennial on 24 May. Building on a proud
heritage of 200 years of service to the Nation,
the men and women of today's Ordnance
Corps provide maintenance, ammunition handling,
and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)
support to warfighters around the world. The
articles beginning on pages 4 and 6 look at the
present and the past of the Ordnance Corps.
In the cover photos (clockwise from the upper
left), an Ordnance Soldier uses a forklift to
move munitions at Joint Base Balad, Iraq;
a mechanic reattaches hoses and wires in a
generator after an engine is replaced at Camp
Liberty, Iraq; an EOD Soldier prepares a
controlled detonation of ordnance outside of
Forward Operating Base Clark, Afghanistan;
and an armament
repair specialist
reinstalls lugnuts
on the wheel of a
trailer at Contingency
Operating
Base Speicher,
Iraq. (Photo by SPC Michael Camacho, SGT Phillip Valentine, SPC Tobey White, and SGT David Scott.) Download Current Issue |
