2008 Annual Report - West Virginia Army National Guard - U.S. Army

West Virginia National Guard Annual Report 2008
Surface Maintenance Office
The Surface Maintenance Office directs
and administers surface maintenance programs
for the West Virginia Army National Guard and
executes maintenance operations through a fulltime
staff of 104 soldiers and 100 West Virginia
Military Authority employees working in 10
maintenance facilities.
Offices for the Surface Maintenance
Manager and staff are located at the Eleanor
Maintenance complex. Other maintenance
shops supporting Army Guard units are located
in Kingwood, Moundsville, Parkersburg,
Buckhannon, Glen Jean, Point Pleasant, and
Kenova.
The Special Forces Equipment Pool,
commonly referred to as the Parachute Rigger
Shop, supports airborne operations by Special
Forces units in West Virginia, as well as those
from Ohio, Maryland, Rhode Island, and other
units in the northeastern region of the U.S.
Communications and Electronics
Command (CECOM) brought a long-term
generator “reset” program to the Eleanor
Complex, which employs 15 people through the
State Cooperative Agreement. This program
provides a service for military units for the 54
states and territories that have returned from
service in Iraq or Afghanistan and need power
generation equipment repaired.
In 2008 U.S. Army Tank-Automotive
Armaments Command (TACOM) contracted
with the Army Guard to provide Basic Issue
Items (BII) for the M113 Armored Personnel
Carrier, the M109A6 Paladin, the M992A2 Field
Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle (FAASV)
and the M88 Tracked Recovery Vehicle.
New for 2008 is the Military Authority
Unit Reset Program. This program employs
11 people with a mission to restore WVARNG
equipment that has returned from deployment
to Army standards. The program resides in
Eleanor.
The WVNG continued refurbishing
M998 Humvees at the former Point Pleasant
Combined Support Maintenance Shop (CSMS),
which has now been redesignated as a Readiness
Sustainment Maintenance Site. This $10.6
million project employs 64 employees with
the mission of returning like-new Humvees
to National Guard units throughout the U.S.
Combined, the reset/rebuild programs will
employ nearly 100 federally reimbursed
employees with a payroll exceeding $5 million
and an additional $4 million for supplies and
services returned to West Virginia businesses to
support military operations.
The State Surface Maintenance Office
and the subordinate shops were certified to ISO
9001:2000 standards in August 2008. West
Virginia has the distinction as the only state
with its maintenance activities internationally
certified. With the ISO certification the
WVARNG can partner with Army Material
Command to support the logistics war fight
while creating great jobs in West Virginia.
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