Army Logistician articles from May 2003

Army Logistician archives from May 2003

MTMC to get new transportation management system. (ALOG News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) has awarded a $67 million contract to Accenture for development of the Surface Transportation Management System (STMS). Under the 9-year award-term contract, Accenture LLP of Reston, Virginia,...

Design specialist retires. (ALOG News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Joyce W. Pawlowski, a member of the Army Logistician staff for 16 years, retired on 3 April after 35 years of Government service. Ms. Pawlowski played a critical role in moving Army Logistician into the digital age of magazine production. This...

Log notes. (ALOG News).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... Dear Editor: My compliments to Major Kenneth E. Hickins and Army Logistician for the November-December 2002 article, "Strategic Mobility: The U.S. Military's Weakest Link." Major Hickins' analysis continues and advances many of the...

Transforming strategic mobility.
May 1, 2003... The author proposes a force planning option that uses available or easily acquired assets to solve the strategic mobility dilemma he identified in his November-December 2002 article. Over the past two decades, the security environment of...

The army test and evaluation command.
May 1, 2003... The Army is transforming rapidly to an Objective Force that will be able to deploy a unit anywhere in the world in 96 hours. The Army Vision Statement calls for a force that is lethal, survivable, and sustainable. This transformation requires...

Force projection information center: a new repository provides authoritative information on all aspects of force projection and deployment.
May 1, 2003... On 11 September 2002, the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, and the Chief of Transportation launched the Force Projection Information Center on Army Knowledge Online--The Army Portal. Known by the acronym "FPIC," this dynamic repository provides...

Managing materiel distribution in the 21st TSC.
May 1, 2003... The old saying, "Change is constant," is a common thread that runs through every facet of the Army, and logistics support in the European theater is no exception. The transformation of the 21st Theater Army Area Command (TAACOM) in...

Restructuring the division support command.
May 1, 2003... Today's Army and the Army of the future must operate on the premise that, because it is based in the continental United States (CONUS), the Army must be able to deploy faster with a reduced logistics tail. As Joint Vision 2020 states, "The...

CSS: a collection of teams: the author believes that the Army can manage combat service support units best if it sees them as they really are: a collection of mission-focused teams.
May 1, 2003... While we may consider combat service support (CSS) to be a unit-based capability, I believe that, in reality, the Army's CSS capability is provided by a collection of diverse CSS teams that are "cared for" by a unit structure. You might ask,...

Ground assault convoys at the JRTC.
May 1, 2003... You are stuck at an intermediate staging base in Cortina. Your brigade is getting ready to move into its area of operations, and you have been tasked to organize the "GACs." First, you wonder what a GAC is. You learn that GAC stands for "ground...

The NATO Movement and Transport Working Group: this group's experts constantly review and update transportation doctrine and search for new and innovative transportation practices.
May 1, 2003... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Movement and Transport (M&T) Working Group brings together transportation doctrine experts to face a huge logistics challenge: standardizing and simplifying NATO transportation doctrine. This is not...

Modularity: reducing the logistics footprint.
May 1, 2003... The force deployment standard that requires a brigade combat team to be on the ground in 96 hours, a warfighting division in 120 hours, and five divisions in 30 days presents specific challenges to combat service support (CSS) units. Although...

Performance-oriented packaging.
May 1, 2003... When you hear "POP," do you think of the latest hit single from a trendy boy band? A carbonated beverage? One third of a trio that also includes snap and crackle? Well, in the Department of Defense (DOD), POP stands for...

Logistics problems on Attu.
May 1, 2003... The world war II attack on Attu in the Aleutian Islands would have been easier if logistics planners had anticipated the effects of weather and terrain. "The battle of Alaska has ended, and it may be reasonably contended that the Japanese...

Army announces major realignment.
May 1, 2003... Under a realignment announced by the Army in January, five major Army commands will report directly to Department of the Army staff principals-- * The Army Criminal Investigation Command will report directly to a new staff officer on the...

Joint crew trains for HSV'S first operational deployment. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Army's Australian-built high-speed vessel (HSV-X1) Joint Venture (below) and its crew of approximately 50 soldiers and sailors departed Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, on 25 January for its first operational deployment in...

Officer education system to be revamped. (News).
May 1, 2003... Three initiatives approved by General Eric K. Shinseki, Chief of Staff of the Army, in January will transform the Officer Education System. The changes, recommended by the Army Training and Leader Development Panel officer study, will focus on...

LOGSA establishes single manager for containers. (News).
May 1, 2003... The Army Materiel Command's (AMC's) Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) will stand up an activity in June to act as the single manager for all Army-owned intermodal containers, flatracks, and container roll-in-roll-out platforms (CROPs). Known...

President's army budget seeks more funds in 2004. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The President's Army budget for fiscal year 2004 calls for spending $93.903 billion, an increase of about $3 billion, or 3.3 percent, over fiscal year 2003. The budget also projects Army spending of $98.376 billion in fiscal year 2005. The...

Airdrop of fuel supports combat operations in Afghanistan. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Parachute riggers from the 82d Airborne Division in February conducted the first airdrop of fuel to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The riggers, from Company E, 782d Main Support Battalion, dropped 38,088 gallons of fuel to a...

Containerized chapels support multidenominational worship. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The first completely containerized chapel, built at the Army Soldier Systems Center at Natick, Massachusetts, was deployed last July to a Force Provider base camp at Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan. Two more chapels are set to deploy in...

Deployment excellence awards expand. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Army's Deployment Excellence Award Program has added a new category for short-notice operational deployments. These deployments involve short lead times; support operational missions such as war on terrorism, peacekeeping, and humanitarian...

Joint munitions command replaces operations support command. (News).
May 1, 2003... The Army Materiel Command provisionally established a new major subordinate command, the Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC), to succeed the Army Operations Support Command (OSC) in January. JMC's formal establishment will take place on 1...

Army creates new chemical materials agency. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... In February, the Army created the Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) (Provisional), combining the safe storage and elimination of the Nation's aging chemical weapons under a single director. Previously, the Army Materiel Command's Army Soldier and...

The MV Cape Texas, one of the Military Sealift Command's 33 roll-on-roll-off ships, battles choppy seas in the Mediterranean Sea. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... * The MV Cape Texas, one of the Military Sealift Command's 33 roll-on-roll-off ships, battles choppy seas in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship sailed in February from Corpus Christi, Texas, for the Middle East in support of possible operations...

Culinary excellence awards presented. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The 2003 Philip A. Connelly Awards for culinary excellence in dining facilities and field kitchens were presented 13 April in Dallas, Texas. The Army Center of Excellence-Subsistence at Fort Lee, Virginia, and the International Food Service...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2003... In the article, "Transforming USTRANSCOM: Is USSOCOM a Model?" in the March-April 2003 issue, the captions on the photos of ships on pages 35 and 37 were inadvertently switched. We apologize to our readers and to the author.

U.S. Army Vessel (USAV) theater support vessel (TSV-1X) Spearhead departs from a port in the U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility on 15 January. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... * U.S. Army Vessel (USAV) theater support vessel (TSV-1X) Spearhead departs from a port in the U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility on 15 January. The Spearhead is currently forward deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom....