Ismael Shaker, owner and founder of Al Harith, a contracting company in Basrah Province, Iraq, explains the maintenance schedule for the power station near Living Support Area Viking on Contingency Operatin Base Basra. The manufacturer-recommended schedule is every 400 hours, Shaker said, but when the entire base switched to using only JP8 diesel, they went to 250 hours. ?It is a dry fuel, this one,? he said. ?Definitely it will destroy the injection pumps.? (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Benjamin R. Kibbey, 367th MPAD)
Mundir Muhammad, chief engineer for the power station at Living Support Area Viking on Contingency Operating Base Basra, explains the control room for the power station. Now that they have the generators set up and functioning, plans are in the works to power additional parts of the COB from the one station, said Muhammad. ?We now have steady power, and we made the calculations, and I think we will achieve it,? he said. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Benjamin R. Kibbey, 367th MPAD)
Staff Sgt. Kris Lemm, contracting office representative, Contingency operating Base Basra mayor?s cell, from Browerville, Minn., laughs with Ismael Shaker, owner and founder of AlHarith, a contracting company in Basrah Province, Iraq, as the two discuss the immense workload Al Harith is responsible for on the base. ?This was a very dark COB, now he takes care of putting light everywhere; this was a very unorganized and unsafe COB, and they go every single place and rewire all the unsafe things,? Lemm said. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Benjamin R. Kibbey, 367th MPAD)
Ismael Shaker, owner and founder of AlHarith, a contracting company in Basrah Province, Iraq, stops for a moment of contemplation at the power station his company operates for the U.S. Army on Contingency Operating Base Basra. The manifold running parallel to the generators are an addition he made to ensure air bubbles in the fuel don?t interfere with the operation of the plant. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Benjamin R. Kibbey, 367th MPAD)
