Shu’aibah Port, Kuwait, Jan. 28, 2004: Spc. Devel Brook of the 771st Maintenance Company directs a Humvee onto the Northern Lights, a civilian ship docked in Kuwait. The port was running 24-hour operations as the equipment of units ending their deployments headed home, and the gear of incoming units arrived. Between 975,000 and 1.3 million pieces of equipment arrived at the port in 2004 during deployments to Iraq, exceeding the number from 2003, the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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