Army Logistician articles from March 2003

Army Logistician archives from March 2003

Distribution management picks up where velocity management leaves off. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Army's Velocity Management Program transformed to the Army Distribution Management Program (ADM) on 1 January. After a long history of success in logistics process reengineering, the program now will alter direction and work hand-in-hand...

Stryker excels in operational baptism. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Army's new Stryker wheeled armored vehicle met key transformation goals during its first "battle" at the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, California. Sixteen Stryker infantry carrier vehicles participated in Army Transformation...

Munitions survivability software. (Log Notes).
March 1, 2003... Information on how to obtain the Munitions Survivability Software described in the November-December issue of Army Logistician is available to anyone who will call (973) 724-2262 or DSN 880-2262, send a fax to (973) 724-5459, or send an email...

Officer development. (Log News).
March 1, 2003... The article, "Designing a Lieutenant Professional Development Training Program," which appeared in your November-December 2002 issue, was a good update on an important aspect of officer professional development (OPD)--unit-level or operational...

A letter from the G-4 on DS+.
March 1, 2003... Dear Editor: I am writing in reference to the commentary in the September-October issue of Army Logistician entitled "Direct Support Plus in Korea." The article detailed how the 2d Infantry Division uses the Direct Support Plus (DS+)...

AMC's new G staff structure: a Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, or G-3, is part of the recently reorganized Army Materiel Command.
March 1, 2003... On 1 May 2002, the Army Materiel Command (AMC) headquarters structure was reorganized under the "G staff" model to improve AMC's responsiveness, effectiveness, and integration and to better align the command with the Department of the Army...

Hazardous materials and supporting troops.
March 1, 2003... Production of hazardous materials is an unavoidable consequence of modern military operations. The products that sustain the Army each day---such as motor oils, paints, cleaning compounds, and aircraft fluids--generate hazardous materials that...

Conducting an MSB external evaluation.
March 1, 2003... Picture this: a main support battalion (MSB), the logistics backbone of an armored division, moving 30 miles down a construction-ridden autobahn in a lengthy convoy carrying hundreds of soldiers and huge quantities of equipment. That is exactly...

Transporter partnership averts logistics crisis.
March 1, 2003... In late August 2002, a labor dispute shut down ports on the west coast of the United States for 2 weeks. Talks between longshoremen and shipping lines had ended when the union rejected the latest contract proposal. With no agreement in sight,...

Managing the munitions stockpile.
March 1, 2003... The Ammunition Surveillance Information System Munitions History Program (ASIS MHP) is an Internet-accessible data system developed to determine the status of the munitions stockpile maintained by the Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition...

Ammunition training in the 2d Infantry Division: the 2d Infantry Division Ammunition Office initiated two new training programs designed to reduce ammuntion management problems caused by the high turnover of personnel in Korea.
March 1, 2003... The 2d Infantry Division Support Command (DISCOM) "Wagonmasters" are using their own resources to help the division's ammunition managers alleviate the chaos caused by distance, dispersion, turbulence, and congestion in the Republic of Korea....

Creativity: the sustainer's field of dreams.
March 1, 2003... What follows are some thoughts on the creative art of sustaining the world's premier land force in times of heightened terrorist activity at home and abroad, frequent world crises, protracted conflict, and transformation. The creative nature of...

Contract support for Operation Enduring Freedom.
March 1, 2003... Local and international contractors are supporting soldiers from many countries as they fight in the war on terrorism around the world. A look at contingency contracting in Operation Enduring Freedom demonstrates how well local and...

Training with a tactical focus.
March 1, 2003... It is 0630 hours in the country of Mojavia. A Company of the 202d Forward Support Battalion, 3d Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 52d Mechanized Division, is preparing to move forward on the battlefield to support combat operations against the...

Proprietary packaged petroleum: a growing logistics concern: the use of proprietary petroleum products by the Government continues despite directives to curtail their procurement. (Commentary).
March 1, 2003... The ability of the U.S. military to control and reduce its use of proprietary petroleum products could play an important role in the Army's transformation to the Objective Force. "Proprietary petroleum products" are those packaged petroleum,...

Another look at property accountability: regardless of all the good things a commander does while in command, the last question his senior rater is likely to ask is, "How did the inventory go?".
March 1, 2003... I recently read an article on property accountability that discussed only the change-of-command inventory. I did a little research and found that most of the information available on property accountability deals only with the change-of-command...

Transforming USTRANSCOM: is USSOCOM a model?
March 1, 2003... Efforts to enhance the mobility of U.S. military forces are focused largely on platforms: how many are needed, and how should they be used? However, platforms are only a small part of the answer to the challenge of transforming our military...

Universal MEL 4 training to be offered. (News).
March 1, 2003... In March, the Army Logistics Management College (ALMC) at Fort Lee, Virginia, and other campuses yet to be named are scheduled to begin offering Military Education Level (MEL) 4-equivalent Intermediate Level Education (ILE) for majors and...

CSS Commanders' Conference scheduled. (News).
March 1, 2003... Major General Terry E. Juskowiak, Commander of the Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM), will host the 2003 Combat Service Support (CSS) Commanders' Conference on 24 and 25 April, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Richmond,...

Army appropriations bill features procurement and personnel hikes. (News).
March 1, 2003... With President George W. Bush's signature on the Defense and military construction appropriations bills last October, the Army budget is set for fiscal year 2003. The appropriations total $91.941 billion, which is $3.441 billion (or 3.9...

Army accepts theater support vessel. (News).
March 1, 2003... The 98-meter-long theater support vessel (TSV) USAV TSV-1XSpearhead has been built to Army requirements at the Incat shipyard in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and delivered to owner Bollinger/Incat USA for charter to the Army Tank-automotive and...

DLA continues competitions for depot management. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has completed the first nine public-private competitions for management of its Defense distribution depots. In the most recently completed competition, operation of Defense Distribution Depot San Diego,...

DLA system provides hazardous materials information. (News).
March 1, 2003... Military and civilian personnel now have easy access to hazardous materials information on the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA's) Hazardous Materials Information Resource System (HMIRS). HMIRS is a comprehensive online repository of material...

Hoseline system ensures steady fuel supplies in Uzbekistan. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Joint Logistics Command at Camp Stronghold Freedom in Uzbekistan has created an alternative way to transfer petroleum products from an old Uzbekistan Ministry of Defense (MOD) fuel farm to a U.S. contingency fuel farm. This alternative...

USTRANSCOM creates a Web-based transportation intelligence tool. (News).
March 1, 2003... Transporters in the Department of Defense will benefit from more timely and accurate transportation intelligence through a new Web-based program developed by the U.S. Transportation Command's (USTRANSCOM's) Joint Intelligence Center (JICTRANS)....

Force Projection Symposium scheduled. (News).
March 1, 2003... "Deploying the Objective Force" is the theme of the fourth annual Force Projection Symposium, to be held in Tacoma, Washington, 6 to 8 May. The symposium will be sponsored by the Program Executive Office for Combat Support and Combat Service...

Support operations course now a better bargain. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Army Logistics Management College's (ALMC's) Support Operations Course (SOC) now is available more often and costs the unit less. In December, ALMC opened a new SOC training facility that will offer as many as 10 SOC classes per...

Soft-landing airdrop systems being studied. (News).
March 1, 2003... Engineers at the Army Soldier Systems Center (Natick) are testing two retraction soft-landing systems that slow the fall of airdropped vehicles and supplies dramatically. The first new system, the pneumatic muscle actuator, is a silicone...

MTMC stores service members' POVS. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) has contracted for a long-term privately owned vehicle (POV) storage program for service members assigned to areas where taking a vehicle is not an option. One vehicle may be stored at no cost for...

New 80-passenger systems replace old "cattle cars" for moving troops. (News).
March 1, 2003... New 80-passenger vans will replace the decades-old "cattle cars" used to transport soldiers in basic combat training at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Called a personnel carrier van, the new...

'Welcome to AKO--you have mail'. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM) has replaced all soldier email addresses in its database with Army Knowledge Online (AKO) addresses. Documents such as officer record briefs now contain the "us.army.mil" address instead of the address...

Call establishes interactive Web site. (News).
March 1, 2003... The Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) has established a "threaded discussion" area on its Web site at http://call.army.mil/callthreads.htm for issues and topics pertaining to the Stryker Brigade Combat Team and the Army Transformation....