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AG and SEL visit MATES at Fort Pickett

Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Long, Jr., the Adjutant General of Virginia, and Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Green, the Virginia Guard Senior Enlisted Leader, visit the Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site Oct. 9 at Fort Pickett. More than 120 personnel assigned to MATES provide maintenance support on more than 500 combat vehicles and other equipment positioned at Fort Pickett including M1A1 tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, howitzers and a variety of other tracked and wheeled vehicles. In addition to Virginia National Guard vehicles, MATES personnel maintain equipment assigned to the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Army National Guard that is drawn when units from those states come to Fort Pickett for training. In addition to vehicle maintenance shops, MATES also contains supply areas and a variety of repair shops including vehicle painting, body work, communications equipment and small arms. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)

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Uploaded on October 11, 2012
Taken on October 10, 2012