Army Logistician articles from March 2008

Army Logistician archives from March 2008

The Army's new Logistics branch: an interview with CASCOM's commanding general.( Major General Mitchell H. Stevenson)(Interview)
March 1, 2008... In response to a growing need for all logistics officers to be multiskilled logisticians, the Army established the Logistics branch on 1 January 2008. Rather than being singularly focused on one of the existing branches, the new Logistics...

Building an Army for Afghanistan.
March 1, 2008... How do you build an Army? That is the question that the U.S. military continues to grapple with in Afghanistan. The challenges range from the basics of recruiting, training, and equipping Afghan soldiers to establishing the logistics...

Sustainment is our middle name: the Army Sustainment Command Distribution Management Center ensures that soldiers have what they need, when and where they need it.
March 1, 2008... In the past year, the 1st Infantry Division's 3d Brigade at Fort Riley, Kansas, accelerated its transformation to a heavy brigade combat team. At Fort Bliss, Texas, an entirely new 5th Brigade, 1st Armored Division, has been built from the...

Ready, set, redeploy: the Army Force Generation model provides units with a standardized cycle that allows them to reset and train between deployments.
March 1, 2008... In January 2006, the 3d Infantry Division redeployed from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 04-06 and faced the monumental task of having to regenerate its brigade combat teams (BCTs). This article will cover the process that the 3d Infantry...

Logistics force generation for Iraq: many organizations and individuals are involved in employing logistics forces on the battlefield. Requirements must be identified, sourced, and moved to best meet the Army's missions in Iraq.
March 1, 2008... Deployment orders? How did we get deployment orders? But we're the 123d Mess Kit Repair Company. Where are we going, and what will we be doing? How will we get there? If you have ever wondered how your unit got tapped for a deployment,...

Preparing for the big chill.(winter in Afghanistan)
March 1, 2008... A haze of dark, coarse dust hung thickly in the air in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, coating the workers as they labored in the golden glow of the late afternoon sun. They had been digging dirt to fill sandbags since dawn, even though they had...

Low-cost, low-altitude aerial resupply: an Army project to resupply units by airdrop developed from a concept to a valued combat operational capability in the hands of our Soldiers in just 16 months.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Picture your dismounted patrol or small unit navigating an extremely difficult stretch of harsh, mountainous terrain in Afghanistan. Your location cannot be reached by ground transportation, and no airfields or landing strips can be found for...

SAAS-MOD training challenges: despite the problems being faced by those using SAAS-MOD, the system has transformed ammunition management across the Army.(Standard Army Ammunition System-Modernization)
March 1, 2008... During our deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) and units across the entire theater faced some significant challenges in working with the Standard Army Ammunition System-Modernization (SAAS-MOD)....

Supporting the Army's first Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.(Cover story)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Throughout the history of warfare, Soldiers have needed to know who and where the enemy is. In order to address that need in the context of the 21st century threat, the 525th Military Intelligence Brigade transformed...

Ensuring CLP success.(combat logistics patrols)(Report)
March 1, 2008... The 15th Brigade Support Battalion (BSB) conducts nightly combat logistics patrols (CLPs), delivering supplies to the 2d Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 1st Cavalry Division, within the Baghdad area of operations. The battalion conducted an in-depth...

Defeating the threat to sustainment operations.
March 1, 2008... Beyond the present combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, our Nation is engaged in what is likely to be a much longer conflict. For now, we call it the "Global War on Terrorism." Using the experience of the past 5 years as a benchmark, this...

The iron mountains of post-cold war interventions.(SPECTRUM)(Company overview)
March 1, 2008... Two weeks, before the start of Operation Desert Storm s ground war, I was pulled from my battalion's intelligence and operations staff officer position and placed in command of a company in the 530th Supply and Services Battalion, 46th Support...

The battlefield contracting community of practice: a LOGNet forum permits members of the contracting community to share knowledge, expertise, and experience between the institutional and operational forces.
March 1, 2008... In its October 2007 independent assessment, Urgent Reform Required: Army Expeditionary Contracting, the Commission on Army Acquisition and Program Management in Expeditionary Operations (also known as the Gansler Commission) presented the...

Logistics branch becomes reality.(ALOG NEWS)
March 1, 2008... The establishment of the Logistics branch became effective 1 January. The new branch unites commissioned officers in the grades of captain through colonel. According to the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, Lieutenant General Ann E....

New Army Reserve unit will provide AMC-ASAALT-DCMA support to the field.(ALOG NEWS)(Army Materiel Command, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, Defense Contract Management Agency)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... A new Army Reserve unit is being created to provide the expertise available from three Department of Defense organizations to support sustained contingency operations. The Army Reserve Sustainment Command Troop Program Unit (ARSC TPU) will...

Army announces stationing decisions.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... In December, the Army announced stationing and force structure plans geared to meet the President's plan to increase the Army's strength by 74,200 Solders, 65,000 of whom will be active-duty Soldiers, by 2010. Based on the Base Realignment and...

AMC creates a new organization to support chemical demilitarization.(ALOG NEWS)(Army Materiel Command's U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The Army Materiel Command (AMC) has activated a new organization to support the Department of Defense's Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program. The U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives, is structured as an...

New PBUSE guides released.(ALOG NEWS)(Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Revised Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE) Survival Guides have been prepared by students in Warrant Officer Advanced Course 001-2008. The new guides have a new format that provides easier reading, including "Chief's helpful hints" and...

Commander opens ARAP debrief to entire battalion staff.(ALOG NEWS)(Army Readiness Assessment Program)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The commander of the 78th Signal Battalion at Camp Zama, Japan, invited all Soldiers, Department of the Army civilians, contractors, and local national employees to participate in the battalion's Army Readiness Assessment Program (ARAP)...

Research reports.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The Long War Occasional Series Paper 23, The Other End of the Spear: The Tooth-to-Tail Ratio (T3R) in Modern Military Operations, by John J. McGrath. Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: 2007. This paper provides a...

Army safety officials warn soldiers about unexploded ordnance.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Following a recent unexploded ordnance (UXO) accident that claimed the life of a Soldier, the Defense Environmental and Information Exchange has reminded Soldiers to be cautious when encountering unidentified objects, as they could be U.S. or...

New systems increase container ship military cargo capacity.(ALOG NEWS)
March 1, 2008... International Transport Logistics (ITL) Technologies, Inc., of Jacksonville, Florida, has developed two systems--the Sain Beam System (SBS) and CONTRAIL--that will allow the Department of Defense (DOD) to expand its use of American-flag...

Armament Center at Picatinny wins Baldridge Award for Quality.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The Army Materiel Command's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, has become the first Federal Government organization to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The...

Tooele improves support capability by moving munitions to Deseret.(ALOG NEWS)(Tooele Army Depot)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Tooele Army Depot, Utah, is moving low-demand munitions to former chemical storage sites at nearby Deseret Chemical Depot in order to free storage space at Tooele for high-demand training and warfighting materials. Tooele has had the highest...

Recently published doctrine.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Field Manual (FM) 4-90.7, Stryker Brigade Combat Team Logistics (10 September 2007), provides doctrinal guidance for the organization and operation of a Stryker brigade combat team's (SBCT's) brigade support...