Army Logistician articles from March 2007

Army Logistician archives from March 2007

Life cycle management command created for munitions.(Joint Munitions and Lethality Life cycle management command)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The life cycle management command (LCMC) concept was extended to munitions with the activation of the Joint Munitions and Lethality (JM&L) LCMC in November. The JM&L LCMC is the fourth of the Army Materiel Command's (AMC's) LCMCs, joining the...

Army speeds up BCT schedule.(brigade combat teams)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Army announced in December that it will establish two more Active-component brigade combat teams (BCTs) ahead of schedule in order to increase the number of combat and combat support units available for combat and homeland-defense missions....

Handbook offers logistics captains introduction to artillery support.(Field Artillery Logistics: Munitions Support)(United States. Army Logistics Management College)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Army Logistics Management College (ALMC) at Fort Lee, Virginia, has prepared a handbook designed to prepare logistics captains for support positions in field artillery battalions, particularly in forward support companies. The handbook,...

Veteran Army Logistician editor retires.(Janice L. Simmons)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Janice L. Simmons, a staff writer-editor at Army Logistician since 1995, retired on 3 January after 34 years of Federal service. During her 12 years at Army Logistician, Ms. Simmons consistently performed according to the highest standards of...

Distribution-based logistics in operation Iraqi freedom: the lifeline to the Army's combat power is its distribution network and demand-supported, on-hand stocks for all classes of supply.
March 1, 2007... In the summer of 2005, Brigadier General Rebecca Halstead, the Commander of the 3d Corps Support Command (COSCOM), directed our unit, the 3d Corps Distribution Center (CDC), to analyze, optimize, and refine the distribution architecture of the...

Logistics: supply based or distribution based?
March 1, 2007... A mantra that we frequently hear is that the Army has moved to a distribution-based logistics system. But what does this mean? If it connotes a target vision that is off base, this could create problems in logistics system design and career...

Combat logistics patrol methodology.
March 1, 2007... Logisticians on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan must operate using unprecedented and uncharted tactics, techniques, and procedures. They can no longer rely on nonorganic force protection or other emergency response assets when they...

Army reduces tactical supply system footprint: centralizing all of the Army's Corps/Theater Automated Data Processing Service Center operations at one site represents the first step toward consolidating tactical supply systems for the modular Army.
March 1, 2007... The Army's transition to a brigade-centric structure requires a number of changes to its logistics support concepts, organizations, and processes. One of the most significant changes removed the administration, operations, and support of the...

Medical logistics interface tab for FBCB2.(Force XXI Battle Command-Brigade and Below )(Battle Command Sustainment Support System )
March 1, 2007... Medical logisticians in Iraq and Afghanistan are currently operating with the luxury of a mature logistics infrastructure in a forward operating base-centric theater of operations. This maturation has resulted in a significant decrease in...

Midnight run: a last-minute "call forward" message required the 1st Armored Division Support Command staff to develop a creative solution in order to meet the mission deadline.
March 1, 2007... It was a normal Monday morning at the 1st Armored Division Support Command (DISCOM) headquarters near Wiesbaden, Germany, and I had just settled down at my desk when my boss called me into his office. He informed me that the 2d Brigade, 1st...

The active guard/reserve instructor share program.(Army Command and General Staff College)
March 1, 2007... The Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) was established in 1881 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to provide Army majors with a world-class military education. Since then, the CGSC curriculum has evolved steadily and expanded to ensure...

The changing face of fuel management.
March 1, 2007... Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas--not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the...

Polymer advances in the interwar period: the impact of science on World War II.
March 1, 2007... When I asked fellow staff members and students at the Army Command and General Staff College to tell me what came to mind when they heard the words "World War I" by far the two most common answers were "trench warfare" and "attrition." One...

Resources for convoy battle drills.(Website overview)
March 1, 2007... Every unit deployed to Iraq has developed a list of convoy battle drills that worked in its particular situation. Units in Iraq have learned through experience that what worked in the open terrain between Samarra and Tikrit proved to be...

Resourcing the force in the midst of complexity: the need to deflate the 'ppb' in PPBE.(Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Execution)
March 1, 2007... In a 1969 article in Public Administration Review, Frederick C. Mosher, a professor of government at the University of Virginia, offered a compelling critique of the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) that was then being touted...

Leader Development Portfolio now available to civilians.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Army's on-line system for fostering leader self-development, the Leader Development Portfolio, is now open to civilians at and above the GS-11 level. It already was available to Active Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve Soldiers....

Army leadership manual released.
March 1, 2007... The Army issued its keystone manual on leadership, Field Manual (FM) 6-22, Army Leadership: Competent, Confident, and Agile, last October. FM 6-22 establishes leadership doctrine for all Army personnel, military and civilian. It describes...

SDDC Western Regional Training Workshop set for June.(Workshop Theme - On the Horizon for Transportation)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) will host the Western Regional Training Workshop on 4 to 7 June at the Holiday Inn Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. This year's theme, "On the Horizon for Transportation," will...

Army to launch comprehensive self-service personnel system.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Army plans to launch a new secure, self-service Web-based human resources system that will give Soldiers around-the-clock access to their personnel data. The Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System (DIMHRS) is a congressionally...

A Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) delivers supplies to troops in Afghanistan after being dropped from a C-130 Hercules cargo plane.(Joint Precision Airdrop System)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... A Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) delivers supplies to troops in Afghanistan after being dropped from a C-130 Hercules cargo plane. Use of JPADS, which guides its load to its intended destination by a means of a Global Positioning...

Army National Guard tests National Maintenance Work Requirements.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Iowa Army National Guard mechanics at the National Maintenance Training Center (NMTC) at Camp Dodge, Iowa, have teamed with Tankautomotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) equipment specialists to verify the...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
March 1, 2007... The news story on page 55 of the January-February issue of Army Logistician incorrectly lists the number of the Soldiers' Guide for Field Maintenance Operations. It should be DA Pamphlet 750-3. The caption of the top photo on page 9 of the...