Army Logistician articles from May 2006

Army Logistician archives from May 2006

Army in line for budget increases to support major initiatives.(ALOG NEWS)
May 1, 2006... The President's budget for the Army for fiscal year 2007 proposes a healthy increase of 12.7 percent over the amount Congress appropriated for fiscal year 2006. The Army's budget request of $111.8 billion represents 25.4 percent of the...

Modular BSBs in Operation Iraqi Freedom.(brigade support battalions)
May 1, 2006... The modular units now on the ground in Iraq are very different from the support units that helped drive Saddam Hussein from power in 2003. Modular brigade support battalions (BSBs) first deployed to the theater of operations during Operation...

Reshaping the contingency contracting military workforce: the Army's contracting force structure will align with the Army's modular expeditionary force structure to provide streamlined contracting support.(integrated acquisition, logistics, and technology )
May 1, 2006... Faced with limited resources, the Army ,continues to redefine and reshape its forces. Today s Army is now a modular force--a power-projection force that is designed to pull resources of all types from any part of the world, depending on the...

Improving division and brigade logistics in the modular force: the author asks some hard questions about how the Army is implementing modular logistics in the division and brigade and offers some answers.
May 1, 2006... The division of the future is not the division we grew up with. The division headquarters of the future will have no permanently assigned forces--it will be just a headquarters. We are seeing the future already in how the Army is assigning...

Leader professional development in the DISCOM: the commander of the 1st Armored Division Support Command confirmed the author's belief that, in peacetime, Army leaders should get to know the Soldiers on whom their success depends in wartime.
May 1, 2006... I am the commander of C Company, the direct support heavy maintenance company of the 123d Main Support Battalion, 1st Armored Division Support Command (DISCOM), in Dexheim, Germany. For the past 6 months, my first sergeant and I have been...

Reaffirming your command maintenance program.
May 1, 2006... It is 0900 on the first duty day of the week--command maintenance time. The battalion standing operating procedure (SOP) calls this time "motor stables" or "assembly area operations." When Soldiers and junior leaders are asked what the focus of...

SLAMIS nonstandard line item number module: supporting the total Army.(Study Number-Line item Number Automated Management and Integrating System)
May 1, 2006... The Standard Study Number-Line item Number Automated Management and Integrating System (SLAMIS) is a Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA), Web-based data mart with a proven track record of automating and integrating acquisition processes...

Corps Support Group logistics at the Iraq border.
May 1, 2006... In September 2004, a 13th Corps Support Command (COSCOM) fragmentary order tasked the 167th Corps Support Group (CSG) to monitor the supplies being shipped from supply centers in northern Turkey to coalition forces in Iraq. The 167th CSG, a New...

Improved air cargo operations.
May 1, 2006... To reduce the number of coalition vehicles and personnel required to travel Iraqi roads to deliver ground cargo, the Arrays 1st Corps Support Command and the Marine Corps' 1st Marine Expeditionary Force worked together to find a way to increase...

Innovation in redeployment: the 1st Infantry Division returns from Iraq: when the Big Red One left Iraq, it learned that a redeployment is not just a deployment in reverse. Army doctrine needs to reflect this reality.
May 1, 2006... The redeployment of the 1st Infantry Division from north central Iraq to its home station demonstrated the complexity of conducting a deliberate relief-in-place and a redeployment simultaneously. It also highlighted a shortfall in current Army...

A logistician's primer on GCSS-Army (PLM+).(Global Combat Support System)
May 1, 2006... Since the early 1990s, the Army has been undergoing a transformation aimed at responding to a rapidly changing world environment. A significant component of this transformation has been the modernization of the Army's logistics processes. The...

The future of the automated logistical specialist: soldiers with military occupational specialty 92A are responsible for knowing how to operate an increasing number of continually changing logistics systems.
May 1, 2006... Just over a decade ago, after performing preventive maintenance checks and services (PMCS) on his vehicle, a Soldier would walk from the company motor pool to the maintenance section and give the completed Department of the Army Form 2404,...

Theater immersion: protecting precious resources.(military logistics)
May 1, 2006... In the summer of 2004, First Army mobilized a number of Army National Guard units as part of the 278th Regimental Combat Team (RCT) from Tennessee and the 155th Brigade Combat Team (BCT) from Mississippi. Both combat teams were mobilized at...

Words matter: the author fears that the Army is not only incorporating business terms into its vocabulary, but also distorting the meanings of words that are defined clearly in doctrine.(COMMENTARY)
May 1, 2006... Even as our Nation's attention is focused on the war in Iraq, I notice the increasing incorporation of commercial or popular management terminology into the profession of military logistics. Frankly, words like "enterprise management,"...

Fuel-oil blenders save time, money, and lives: environmental professionals at the Army Engineer School found a way reduce oil disposal problems in Iraq by using commercial off-the-shelf equipment.
May 1, 2006... Used oil is a major waste stream for a deployed army. The Army generates an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 gallons of used oil per week in Iraq. Although contracts that provide for its disposal are in place, insurgents make the already difficult...

Servant leadership.(COMMENTARY)
May 1, 2006... In my almost 29 years on active duty, I have witnessed two types of leadership. I can sum up these two different types like this: those leaders who saw themselves as, and led as, servants of their Nation and their subordinates, and those who...

What's in a name?(LOG NOTES)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Enjoyed, as always, the latest issue of Army Logistician. Hope you don't mind if a mere engineer, working in an outfit teeming with loggies, offers some technical corrections and comments. The photograph on page 54 of the January February...

LOGNet provides good information.(LOG NOTES)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... The Army has a firm stance on bloggers, with good reason. We must be sure that we don't compromise our missions by discussing the five W's of operational planning. The desire to share, collaborate, and make things better is a basic tenet of any...

Gun truck history.(LOG NOTES)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... The article on gun trucks in the January-February 2006 issue ["Gun Trucks: A Vietnam Innovation Returns," by Major Dean J. Dominique] was most excellent! I appreciated its lessons relearned from the Vietnam-era gun trucks theme and how that...

ALOG provides useful information.(LOG NOTES)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... I would like to commend you and your staff at Army Logistician for sharing logistics expertise. The January-February 2006 issue has been especially helpful to me. The article titled "Joint Force Logistics: Keeping Track of Forces on the Move"...

Quadrennial Defense Review sets vision for future.(ALOG NEWS)
May 1, 2006... The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) released by the Department of Defense (DOD) in February calls for DOD and the armed services to continue the transformation of military capabilities and forces that has been unfolding since 2001. The 2006...

Logistics Information Warehouse fielded.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Army Materiel Command Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) has made significant progress toward creating a single, authoritative source of logistics information for the Army. In January, LOGSA fielded the Logistics Information Warehouse (LIW)...

Two more civil support teams certified.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Department of Defense has certified two additional Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams (WMD-CSTs), bringing the total number of certified teams to 36. In February, the Wisconsin and Nebraska National Guard teams were certified....

Rapid Equipping Force speeds high-tech equipment to troops.(ALOG NEWS)
May 1, 2006... An innovative acquisition concept is proving successful in getting high-tech equipment into the hands of Soldiers much faster than the traditional acquisition process. The Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF) identifies an immediate warfighting...

WIN-T passes first test.(ALOG NEWS; Warfighter Information Network-Tactical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... A key component of the Army's efforts to develop a network-centric, knowledge-based warfare capability, the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), recently completed its first test successfully at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. WIN-T is...

FCS test site announced.(ALOG NEWS; Future Combat Systems )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Army announced in January that Fort Bliss, Texas, will be the location for the Evaluation Brigade Combat Team (EBCT) that will test and evaluate Future Combat Systems (FCS) technology. Fort Bliss was selected because of its proximity to...

Compressed meals will offer quality and portability.(ALOG NEWS)
May 1, 2006... The Natick Soldier Center's Combat Feeding Directorate has developed a lighter, leaner individual ration that can be carried inside Future Combat Systems vehicles. Compressed meals (CMs) are one-third smaller in size and weight than the...

The executive officer of the 840th Distribution Deployment Support Battalion examines a cargo container at Logistics Support Area (LSA) Anaconda in Iraq.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The executive officer of the 840th Distribution Deployment Support Battalion examines a cargo container at Logistics Support Area (LSA) Anaconda in Iraq. The battalion has been tracking down borrowed commercial cargo containers and replacing...