Mr. Hashim Abd Al-Amir Mahdi, owner of the Miran Company and operator of the new Joint Base Balad Container Repair facility shares a light moment with Command Sgt. Maj. Paul Crabtree of the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Crabtree is the IBIZ project manager of the Joint Base Balad Container Repair Facility and has been working with Mr. Hashim, owner of the Miran Company. The facility is yet another project of the burgeoning Iraqi Based Industrial Zones initiate that provides Iraqis with economic growth opportunities on the perimeters of installations of coalition forces.
contributed photo by Staff Sgt. Les Newport /
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