Washington Welder

Tad Wendler, from Olympia, Wash., checks his welds for holes inside the Stryker battle damage repair facility at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, April 27, 2010. The Qatar base contains the only Stryker repair facility capable of complete structural overhauls in Southwest Asia. Wendler is completing his seventh battle-damaged Stryker. During the past 10 months, he has replaced punctured and warped plates, removed cracks and studied a 300-page configuration manual. (Official Army Photo/ Dustin Senger)