Army Logistician articles from July 2004

Army Logistician archives from July 2004

G-4 says army must change.(ALOG News)
July 1, 2004... "The Army must change now. The old designs won't work on the new battlefield." Lieutenant General C. V. Christianson, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, told an audience at a recent Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Logistics Symposium that the...

Logistics transformation poster series debuts.(ALOG News)
July 1, 2004... Army Logistician is pleased to include in this issue the first of five posters created by the Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, on Army Logistics Transformation. This issue's poster introduces the series. The other posters portray...

Using TRICONs.(Log Notes)
July 1, 2004... I would like to comment on the story in your March-April 2004 issue titled "Improving Equipment Management With Triple Containers." First Lieutenant Nathan D. Williams wrote an excellent story on the use of the TRICON in the 110th Quartermaster...

Analyzing the lessons of OIF distribution.
July 1, 2004... The Army's combat service support (CSS) units performed miracle after miracle during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The greatest of these miracles occurred in distribution, where the pace of keeping up with combat units pushing north would have...

Planning a CSS live-fire exercise in Korea.
July 1, 2004... Conducting a live-fire exercise (LFX) may seem routine for most conventional combat and combat support units, but for combat service support (CSS) units, such an exercise can be challenging. LFXs are not emphasized in CSS units as much as they...

DLA creates J-4: the Defense Logistics Agency has established a new directorate to improve its support to the services. One result will be a stronger partnership with Army logisticians.
July 1, 2004... The "shock and awe" that characterized the race to Baghdad in Operation Iraqi Freedom can be related directly to our Nation's logistics prowess. The unified efforts achieved by Army and Department of Defense (DOD) logisticians in support of...

Frontline support of the first SBCT at war.
July 1, 2004... The Army continues to implement the transformation processes set in motion by General Erik K. Shinseki in October 1999. One of the fruits of that transformation, the first Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT)--the 3d Brigade, or "Arrowhead...

Transforming Army Oil Analysis: the Army Oil Analysis Program is restructuring and incorporating new technology to improve its usefulness as a maintenance diagnostic tool.
July 1, 2004... All of us are aware that the Army is constantly changing. The main catalyst for this change is the rapidly evolving technology exploding across our society today--technology that the Army must continue to exploit as it transforms to the Future...

Moving the Army--Texas style.
July 1, 2004... Few Americans are aware of the volume of cargo that is shipped from ports located along the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas, to Cape Sable, Florida. Some of these ports serve as major Department of Defense transportation nodes for...

The Aviation Support Battalion--workhorse of Army aviation: the authors chronicle the 603d Aviation Support Battalion's move across Iraq in support of the 3d Infantry Division's Aviation Brigade.
July 1, 2004... If you were asked to develop an organization that could support a heavy division's aviation brigade using published doctrine on combat operations, you might come up with something that resembles the current aviation support battalion. But...

A Corps Support Battalion's experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
July 1, 2004... Traditionally, the 87th Corps Support Battalion (CSB) is aligned under the 24th Corps Support Group (CSG) (Forward) in direct support of the 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Its mission is to provide backup support to...

Supporting the fight: the FSB.
July 1, 2004... Field Manual (FM) 3-0, Operations, published in June 2001, documented the Army's shift in its fundamental warfighting doctrine to encompass an evolving operational environment that reflects contemporary threats. The traditional battlefield...

Integrating units in the BSA.
July 1, 2004... When a forward support battalion (FSB) commander has to take command of a brigade support area (BSA), he generally has a problem with integrating all of the units and capabilities in the BSA that have come under his charge. The coordination and...

Eliminating the iron mountain: just-in-time supply distribution has only reduced, and not eliminated, the hoarding of excess repair parts and supplies. The author believes that the Army must overhaul its entire supply system if efficiency in obtaining parts and supplies is to be achieved and hoarding is to stop.(Commentary)
July 1, 2004... The Army's traditional mass-based logistics system involves stocking a large inventory of parts and supplies that may be required to satisfy mission requirements. The intent of maintaining a large inventory is to shorten the length of time...

Thinking joint--integrating Army Logistics.(Commentary)
July 1, 2004... When Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., addressed the House Armed Services Committee last October on lessons learned thus far from Operation Iraqi Freedom, he described the new approach to warfare demonstrated in Iraq as "overmatching power."...

The theater support command at war: the theater support command integrates Active and Reserve component soldiers. How did this multicomponent organization perform in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and what changes may be needed to ensure its continued relevance?
July 1, 2004... Lessons learned in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and later in the Balkans have fostered significant changes in Army logistics. One of the most important was the conversion of the old theater Army area command (TAACOM) to a...

Multifunctional medium heavy transportation company: the author presents a case for creating a transportation company that combines the elements of three separate companies within a support battalion.(Commentary)
July 1, 2004... I am assigned to the 68th Corps Support Battalion, 43d Area Support Group, at Fort Carson, Colorado. The battalion's transportation assets consist of three transportation companies: a palletized load system (PLS) company, a bulk petroleum...

ALMC: 50 years of excellence.
July 1, 2004... The Army Logistics Management College (ALMC) at Fort Lee, Virginia, celebrates its 50th anniversary in July. The college began as the 12-week Army Supply Management Course, which was established on 1 July 1954. The first class was made up of 14...

Secretary of Defense reports on excess installation capacity.(ALOG News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process for 2005 took a significant step forward in March when Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a force structure plan and infrastructure inventory to Congress. Based on this report, the...

DDOC enjoys early success.(ALOG News)
July 1, 2004... The U.S. Transportation Command's (TRANSCOM's) Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (DDOC), which was established and deployed to Kuwait under the tactical command of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) earlier this year, is helping to...

Army to recognize Professional Logistician Certification.(ALOG News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Effective 15 April 2004, Army officers and warrant officers who have been awarded the Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) designation by SOLE--The International Society of Logistics are authorized to add their CPL certification to their...

Army plan adds and enhances SBCTs.(ALOG News)
July 1, 2004... Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has authorized the Army to acquisition and field Stryker Brigade Combat Teams (SBCTs) 5 and 6 and retrofit brigades 1 through 4 with newer technology as it becomes available. Under the approved plan,...

AUSA panel addresses need to better connect logisticians.(ALOG News)
July 1, 2004... "Connect Logisticians," which is one of the focus areas of Army Logistics Transformation, was the subject of a panel chaired by Major General Mitchell H. Stevenson, the Army Materiel Command's Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and Operations,...

HSV deck landings could increase future transportation capabilities.(ALOG News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Two Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters landed on board the high-speed vessel (HSV) USAV Joint Venture X1 on 25 March, marking the first time in more than 30 years that an Army helicopter has landed on an Army ship. After offloading passengers...

SDDC moves Caribbean port to Jacksonville, Florida.(ALOG News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In May, the 832d Transportation Battalion completed its relocation from Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, to Jacksonville, Florida. The move followed the move of U.S. Army South from Puerto Rico to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The Port of Jacksonville is...

Soldiers help with weapons destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina.(ALOG News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Soldiers of the Stabilization Force (SFOR) Multinational Brigade (North) helped deliver approximately 1,000 weapons and 3,000 rifle magazines to the Zenica Steel Factory in Bosnia-Herzegovina for destruction earlier this year. In 2003, more...

CAS3 merged with Officer Advanced Courses.(ALOG News)
July 1, 2004... The last class of the 5-week Combined Arms and Services Staff School (CAS3) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, graduated in May, and the responsibility for staff officer skills training was transferred to the branch proponent schools. The branch...

'AKO Lite' available.(ALOG News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Army Knowledge Online (AKO) is now available in a lighter version that permits quicker downloading. The new version of AKO, called AKO Lite, is AKO's response to concerns expressed by deployed soldiers that AKO took too long to access and use....