Vilseck, Germany, Feb. 9, 2005: One of the 41st Transportation Company’s Palletized Load System trucks drops off some supplies to be sent with a trainload of the vehicles on their journey to Iraq at the Vilseck military railhead. The specialized cargo trucks can load and unload their own containers in less than a minute. 

Though the approximately 140 soldiers of the 41st won’t leave Germany for several more weeks, the unit needed to get its 10-wheeled cargo trucks on the way so it can pick them up in Kuwait in March.

Once in the region, the unit will spend another year shuttling supplies around Iraq in a mission troops said they are more prepared to execute safely the second time around.

Read more from the 2005 article here.