It was kind of a long day, as good as the US Army is about communication, it is hard to link up with another unit that isn't in your area of operations. We had to find the one Staff Sargeant on FOB Striker (huge place) that had the keys to the storage vans where the Humanitarian Assistance was kept. It took us about 2 hours to find the guy and get all of the pieces together - - keys, forklifts, forklift operators, another forklift with a different kind of fork, yet another forklift because the first one broke, etc. - -but it all worked out in the end.
The fine soldiers of the 639th CSSC (Combat Service and Support Company, I think) from the Montana National Guard out of Kalispell, Montana helped us out a lot. Not only did they load up the goods for us, they also spotted the Iraqi shurta lunch and as much gatorade as they could all stuff in their trucks. 
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