Army Sgt. Patrick J. McDonald Jr., an avionics mechanic

Army Sgt. Patrick J. McDonald Jr., an avionics mechanic and project manager for the 1107th Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group, 143rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), 1st Theater Sustainment Command, checks the identification tag on an air compressor March 17 at Patton Army Airfield in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. Since November 2013, the 1107th TASMG has sorted, tagged, packed and shipped tens of thousands of items that had accumulated in Kuwait since the outset of U.S. military operations in Iraq in 2003. From tools and bench stock to tractors and heavy machinery, the 1107th TASMG has classified, cleaned and delivered these items to either U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., for redistribution or directly to deployed units that urgently need parts and equipment.