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- [Voiceover] Mud, muck,

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and unexpected flash flood warnings

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continue to test these Army Reserve soldiers.

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The Army Reserve's 340th Quartermaster Company soldiers

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take on the training grounds of Fort Hood, Texas,

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for their 2016 annual training in August.

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Comprised mostly of 92 Sierras,

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shower, laundry, and clothing support specialists,

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these troops are capable of supporting

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over five thousand soldiers.

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While processing bundle after bundle of laundry,

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specialist Jared Neven explains how it works.

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- So this is the LADS,

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it's the mobile laundry unit,

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and as you can see here,

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we've got our two drums and our cyls right here,

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which can do two loads of laundry.

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We're doing about 40 loads,

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40 bundles of laundry right now.

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And you have your different cycles right through here,

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so it allows us to get a lot of laundry out,

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running two cyls like that,

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we can churn through a lot of laundry loads in a day.

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- [Voiceover] Under normal circumstances,

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the 340th is a morale booster

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for troops in deployed locations.

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But with the less than favorable weather conditions,

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they mean a little bit of comfort and warmth

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in an otherwise cold, wet night.

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Reporting from Fort Hood, Texas,

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I'm Army Reserve Specialist Logan Rath.