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| - 165th QM (ADS) “BE SURE” The 165th QM Aerial Delivery Support Company (ADS) started in Georgia November 2007 as an AA entity, with the Headquarters platoon in Atlanta and platoons in Indiana and Nebraska. The Company was attached to the 560th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade to provide support in airborne operations for the 3-108th CAV (R&S) Squadron and to perform aerial delivery support for the Brigade. The Company can pack 910 parachutes over a 45 day period, rig 120 stons daily, provide field food service for 250 service members once daily and provide transportation for the rigging and field feeding sections as well as perform maintenance on all equipment. On 03 January 2008, the first three members of the 165th conducted drill at Charlie Brown Airfield. The company outgrew its space at CBAF and relocated to Hanger 1, Dobbins Air Reserve Base in October 2008 to accommodate the 42 soldiers actively drilling with the unit. The Company relocated again in May 2009 to provide more space and a better training area to accommodate approximately 75 soldiers. The 165th participated in its first airborne operation in November 2008 with five soldiers conducting a night jump from a C23 SHERPA. By February, the riggers had built two containerized delivery system (CDS) bundles to be used as training aids in the fielding of the new C27J fixed wing aircraft. The State Readiness Exercise took place in March 2009 and the 165th was called on to create and implement an air load plan to aid the National Guard Reaction Force as it prepared to transport soldiers and equipment from CBAF on to two C23’s to the CRTC in Savannah, GA for a mock terrorist attack. In May, the company built, transported, loaded and successfully conducted its first airdrop by pushing four door bundles, consisting of six cases of MRE’s each, out of a UH-60 in order to provide rations to LRS teams preparing to conduct missions. The 165th rounded out the training year by graduating six new Pathfinders and supporting the 3-108th’s airborne operation at FT Stewart with four day and four night bundle drops. The unit was called upon in May 2010 to assist the Navy in recovering a downed Sabreliner that crashed in the north Georgia Mountains by slingloading debris from the crash site to an open field in order to be transported to NCIS. In August 2010, the 165th QM was asked to support the 266th QM Company in conducting a sling load inspector certification course with a follow on mission of conducting live sling load operations at FT Stewart, GA.
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