Barge movements prove critical for move of 1st Infantry Division.(Cover Story) From: Translog | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 U.S. Military Traffic Management Command. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The simultaneous loading of three barge sites proved critical in the movement of 1st Infantry Division equipment from Germany as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Transporters with the Rhine River Detachment loaded equipment in barges at Bamberg, Aschaffenburg and Mannheim during the last two weeks of January.

In all, 45 percent of the equipment of the 1st Infantry Division, or some 4,500 vehicles, moved by barge.

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Rhine rivers proved an efficient transportation means for moving the Wurzburg-based division to the port of embarkation at Antwerp, ...

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