That was pretty awesome!”Īnother highlight of Worley’s deployment to Iraq happened a little more than two months before he left the country. We told him Q-West and they offered to escort us back to base. He had identified us and asked for our destination. We were in radio silence when, from out of nowhere, the commander of one of two Blackhawk helicopters flying nearby called down to us. I feel that praying before every mission had everything to do with our success.” He recalled one memorable mission, “We were coming back from a mission just outside of Mosul. He recalled, “ Each time we traveled ‘outside the wire,’ was a very stressful time. Worley completed 65 missions in a little more than nine months.
During the time period from 2005-2011, a total of 1,526 EFPs killed 196 U.S troops and wounded more than 860. The EFPs were introduced by the insurgents after the Allied forces began using the more heavily armored MRAPs. Most of the recovered vehicles had been disabled by IEDs or EFPs. The recovery teams operated along the main supply route MSR Tampa, in the Northern Province of Iraq. On the visual displays, friendly forces are blue and the enemy forces are r ed. The GPS-enabled system allowed real-time command and control, including mapping software, location displays and the ability to send and receive orders. All vehicles in a convoy were connected to the battalion headquarters by a system of computers and software. Gun trucks were equipped with 50-caliber machine guns.Ĭonvoys used an upgraded system of security and tracking called BFT. A convoy consisted of five gun-trucks with KBR wreckers in between. KBR drove HEMTT wreckers, which included roll-up beds for transporting disabled vehicles. Worley’s security unit drove gun trucks such as MRAPs, Cayman Armored vehicles and Armored Security Vehicles.
KBR’s job was to recover disabled military vehicles. His unit was part of a Combat Recovery Team that provided security for the military contractor, KBR. After two weeks in Kuwait, his unit was sent to Qayyarah, Iraq, located about 30 miles south of Mosul. Worley deployed on active duty to Iraq in 2008. While still employed at Hyundai, Worley is currently on active duty working at the Joint Task Force Headquarters, Alabama National Guard in Montgomery, Alabama. Worley has remained in the National Guard for 34 years while working at several jobs, including 10 years at Shaw Industries and 16 years at Hyundai Motor Company in Montgomery, Alabama. After graduation, he was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for Advanced Individual Training.
Between his junior and senior year of high school Tim joined the Alabama National Guard and completed basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Tim attended Straughn High School where he graduated in 1988. Tim attended Church Street Elementary School and Andalusia Middle School before his family moved to the Harmony Community. His parents were James and Martha Warthen Worley. Timothy Lamar Worley was born August 27, 1968, in Opp, Covington County, Alabama, although his family lived in Andalusia. Through 2021, the National Guard and Reserve forces lost nearly 850 personnel. Many National Guard and Reservist units found themselves activated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His unit was stationed in Kuwait for two weeks before being sent to Iraq. Worley was a member of the Alabama National Guard, 158 th Maintenance Company out of Tallassee, Alabama, that landed at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in November 2008.
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