Unit Book A15

A15-workmen

Processed on 2024-03-21

Date	Author	Record
2001-07-30	jlw	7 picks and 18 in support reported for work. Kamiran complained of a severe headache all morning. Gave him aspirin. When that didn't help, sent him home. Muhammud Hammud had an abrasion on his shin. Patched it and he returned to work. [Input: L730jlw.j]
2001-07-31	jlw	7 picks and 18 in support from A9, plus four removal personnel from A15 and A16. Had two extra picks on loan from A10 for 3 hours. Ramadan departed after breakfast to take his daughter to the hospital and did not return. [Input: L731jlw.j]
2001-07-25	jlw	6 picks and 18 in support reported for work. In addition, Abd'el Rahman was added from A10, which had finished excavating. Deployed all but 5 to clear the backfill from k5, the most likely place to begin work. The others, under the supervision of Anwar, returned to A9 to finish excavating the floor of k24, which was discovered at the end of the day yesterday, L724. [Input: L811jlw.j]
2001-07-26	jlw	7 picks and 18 in support reported for work. Deployed the majority to preparing k15 for excavation. [Input: L812jlw.j]
2001-07-28	jlw	7 picks and 18 in support reported for work. Ramadan, from A15 detailed to us to help organize overall dirt removal. [Input: L812jlw1.j]
2001-07-29	jlw	7 picks and 17 in support reported for work. Ramadan and two others from A15 assisting in dirt removal. [Input: L812jlw2.j]
2001-08-01	jlw	7 picks and 21 in support reported for work. [Input: L813jlw.j]
2001-08-01	jlw	took 6 workmen who were excavating in k15 and sent them to clean A9 in preparation for final photographs. After breakfast, assigned them to okk. [Input: L813jlw.j]
2001-08-01	jlw	2 picks and 3 in support returned for afternoon work to continue baulk removal. From time to time Adnan and Hussein from A15 north provided extra pick support by working on the north side of the baulk. [Input: L813jlw.j]
2001-08-02	jlw	7 picks and 21 in support reported for work. Assigned 3 picks and 3 support to okk to help with final cleanup on this, the last day of excavation in MZ14. [Input: L813jlw1.j]
2001-08-18	jlw	two picks and 2 in support reported for work. [Input: L823jlw.j]
2001-08-19	jlw	two picks and 2 in support reported for work [Input: L823jlw.j]
2001-08-20	jlw	2 picks and 4 in support reported for work. [Input: L823jlw.j]
2001-08-21	jlw	2 picks and 2 in support reported for work. [Input: L823jlw.j]
2001-08-28	jlw	borrowed one pick and one-half support from A16 [Input: L828jlw1.j]
2003-07-12	ms	have 18 workment including 5 pickmen. [Input: N712MS.j]
2003-07-22	ms	three workmen were taken to work in J1, Ahmad, Jawan and Lorenz. Ibrahim Ismail is now full time administrator. We will work closely with him while he is getting used to the job. He seems to be doing very well. This is also the last day for gh as she is going to work in Damascus tomorrow. [Input: N722MS.j]
2003-07-26	ms	Rashid and Majid K left to work with the Germans so we are down to 18 workmen, including six pickmen. Three of the pickmen are new pickmen, Mas'ud, Nasm and Median. So far they seem to be working well. Castro also came today and we had him start working on the section of the n baulk of k13 to k3. We are bringing back Steff and Yestafa to work on the trench in k15. Will get more dirt removers as we need. [Input: N726MS.j]
2003-07-30	ms	had Jl's workmen for the day as he had no digging in his area. [Input: N730ms.j]
2003-08-03	jw	Muhammad Khir departed to work in J1 as a pickman and was replaced by M'hd Turkey. fab took Muhammad Juma and Muhammad Turkey to work on the joint A15/A17/A18 dirt train. [Input: N803jw1.j]
2003-08-11	jw	Ju'an Ismail excused by gb and departed for home at breakfast due to illness. Safwan Hussein's absence continued and was excused by gb on N808. ms spent most of the day working at home on computer data entry and processing. bm continued to spend the first half of the morning assisting jw and ms. [Input: N811jw.j]
2003-08-12	jw	all assigned workmen reported except Safwan, who remained on absence granted by gb. Yasar departed at 1100 due to illness. fab notified after the fact. [Input: N812jw.j]
2003-08-13	jw	Muhammad Kher and Aldare reported for work from A10. Safwan gave notice that this will be his last day of work. [Input: N813jw.j]
2003-08-14	jw	all assigned and detailed workmen reported. Hamza was excused for one hour before breakfast. [Input: N815jw2.j]
2003-08-16	jw	Masum, Abd el-Karim and Ferhad were detailed to us for the day from A12/A14. [Input: N816jw2.j]
2003-08-17	jw	Ramadan, Runi, and Sadiq excused by gb for various appointments in town after breakfast. In mid-morning we temporarily stopped excavating A17k2 and diverted Sa'ud to work with Muhammad Hair in k14 to speed work there and Muhammad Kher to work in Ramadan's place in k15. [Input: N817jw.j]
2003-08-18	jw	Sultan, Ju'an, Ibrahim, Khalid, Ahmed, Sheikh and Muhammad were detailed to us from A14. They comprise 4 pickmen, one shovel person and two spoils removers. They were put to work in k3 and k2. [Input: N818jw.j]
2003-08-19	jw	two new workmen reported for duty. Muhammad Hair excused at 0600 due to illness. [Input: N819jw.j]
2003-08-20	jw	Muhammad Hair continued out sick. Adil excused by gb due to an eye injury. Faraj reported from A14. Ahmed temporarily detailed from J1 East to assist in looking for more door seal fragments. [Input: N820jw.j]
2003-08-21	jw	all workmen assigned to A15 and those on loan from other units yesterday reported for work. During the day, eight were temporarily deployed to assist in the removal of the iron frames for the wall covers. [Input: N821jw.j]
2003-08-22	jw	of the regularly assigned workmen, Adil and Ju'an did not report. A15 supplied replacements. Muhammad Kher excused by gb at 1200 and departed. Ramadan, Ibrahim and Abd el-Hamid departed at 1200 for prayers and meditation. [Input: N822jw.j]
2003-08-23	jw	all assigned workmen reported as well as a few from the general detail who are cleaning the entire site and removing the backfill for photography. [Input: N823jw.j]
2003-08-24	jw	a variety of extra workmen, in addition to the regularly assigned A15 workforce, reported for duty to carry the extra spoils from an intensive day of excavation. ms and jw hosted a brief second breakfast to thank everyone for the hard work this season. [Input: N824jw.j]