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REME

Vitez, Bosnia

This British unit repairs everything the Army has that might need fixing. What the American Army would throw away, the Brits fix. Once David Brauchli dropped a Canon lens and bent the outer flange so he couldn't get the broken filter off. We went to REME and a mechanic took us to a corner of the building where he had the most incredible collection of tools in big portable storage boxes...I think the tools had been accumulating for 200 years. He fixed the lens like a real expert...and he was a tank mechanic.

The guy in the photo is fixing a tank tread. Shot taken at British REME facility in Vitez.


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Al 12-Apr-2015 20:39
The Forward Repair and Recovery Group from 4 Armoured Workshop were based there there to during Grapple 2, as well as having Forward Repair Teams at GV and Tuzla. We provided 2nd line support to the PWO REME and did the pack changes and engines and gearbox changes on the vehicles amongst other things. We also did convoy escorts as we were equipped with warriors although a different type than the infantry.
Roy Hunter 17-Nov-2010 09:14
It's the1 PWO BG Echelon on Grapple 2 between the school at Stari Bila and Vitez, early to mid '93.
James Mason14-Oct-2009 22:53
Alun: I'm glad to get corrections to captions. So I'll call it REME from now on. They are an awesome outfit! The photo was taken at the Vitez REME base, which was about a mile from the main post in the school.
Alun Roberts 14-Oct-2009 21:22
Hi. Your pictures are absolutely wonderful, I have really enjoyed looking through them. I am loathe to even mention finding fault, but ( :-) ) it's spelt REME (pronounced ReeMee), not Re.Me. My old regiment, it stands for Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. The guy in the pic is "track-bashing", thats a torque wrench he is using to test the tightness of the track pin bolts. The track itself is off a Warrior IFV (not the Scimitar in the background). Track-bashing is generally done on the vehicle, but a good crew an get the track off anf back on again in about 20 minutes. Note the pallet full of new track sections behind his head.
The local terrain was very hard on the trcks out there.
Whereabouts was the picture taken?