429th BSB Soldiers use new system to deliver water
Soldiers from the South Boston-based Company A, 429th Brigade Support Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deliver potable water in the Load Handling System Compatible Water Tank Rack, also known as the Hippo, June 14, 2013, during 116th IBCT annual training at Fort Pickett, Va. Soldiers from Company A use the Tactical Water Purification System to create potable water from a lake at Fort Pickett, and the water is then pumped into the Hippo for transport to units in the field. The battalion has eight Hippos are on loan from the North Carolina National Guard for annual training, and they provide a dramatic increase in water storage and transport capabilities over the traditional M-149 400-gallon water trailer better known as the water buffalo. The Hippo consists of a 2,000-gallon potable water tank with an integrated pump, engine, alternator, filling stand and 70-foot hose reel with bulk suction and discharge hoses. It is fully functional, mounted or dismounted, and is air transportable and ground transportable when full, partially full or empty, and is compatible with the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck-Load Handling System, or HEMTT-LHS, and the Palletized Load System or PLS. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
429th BSB Soldiers use new system to deliver water
Soldiers from the South Boston-based Company A, 429th Brigade Support Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deliver potable water in the Load Handling System Compatible Water Tank Rack, also known as the Hippo, June 14, 2013, during 116th IBCT annual training at Fort Pickett, Va. Soldiers from Company A use the Tactical Water Purification System to create potable water from a lake at Fort Pickett, and the water is then pumped into the Hippo for transport to units in the field. The battalion has eight Hippos are on loan from the North Carolina National Guard for annual training, and they provide a dramatic increase in water storage and transport capabilities over the traditional M-149 400-gallon water trailer better known as the water buffalo. The Hippo consists of a 2,000-gallon potable water tank with an integrated pump, engine, alternator, filling stand and 70-foot hose reel with bulk suction and discharge hoses. It is fully functional, mounted or dismounted, and is air transportable and ground transportable when full, partially full or empty, and is compatible with the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck-Load Handling System, or HEMTT-LHS, and the Palletized Load System or PLS. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)