Army Logistician articles from May 2008

Army Logistician archives from May 2008

Sustainment center of excellence lifelong learning portal: gateway to lifelong learning for logisticians.
May 1, 2008... As the Army continues to transform to a leaner, more deployable, and more lethal formation with state-of-the-art equipment for sustaining well-trained Soldiers, Army training is also moving forward with a new look. To help transform how we...

Unit deactivation logistics in review.(Report)
May 1, 2008... A bustle of activity at units undergoing transformation permeated the air in Europe. Quite a few units had already transformed, yet, my search for information on the unit deactivation process yielded little. My unit, the 130th Engineer...

Bomb squads and EOD personnel: interoperability for homeland defense: the Army has long trained civilian law enforcement bomb squads, but a Navy-run school trains military explosive ordinance disposal personnel. This division of labor must be bridged so civilian and military personnel are ready to work as joint teams.(explosive ordinance disposal)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since 1971, Army personnel have trained the technicians of civilian public safety bomb squads (PSBSs) at the Hazardous Devices School (HDS) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. HDS, which is operated by the Army Ordnance...

Collecting information from the field.
May 1, 2008... In a complex organization like the Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) at Fort Lee, Virginia, leaders and decisionmakers must routinely ask at least three critical, overarching questions in order to maintain the relevance of their...

Warrior logisticians: establishing an SSA from the ground up.(supply support activity)
May 1, 2008... The 9-week, 2-day course for the automated logistical specialist (military occupational specialty 92A) teaches Soldiers to be "warrior logisticians." But the true test of these Soldiers' abilities comes when they are called upon to establish an...

Helpful thoughts for junior leaders: a retired lieutenant colonel shares leadership advice for new leaders based on his years of experience as an officer and a manager.(Kenneth Long)
May 1, 2008... Leadership plays a central role in Army doctrine, and properly so. The difference between good units and great units is the quality of their leadership. Leadership ties the warfighting functions together to create the combat power the Army...

Understanding the supply chain operations reference model: applying the Supply Chain Operations Reference model to military logistics can be a powerful tool to improve the Department of Defense's supply chain.
May 1, 2008... The Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain is a multibillion-dollar business. However, like supply chains in the commercial sector, new developments in technology, organization, and processes have not been incorporated into the DOD supply...

BCT logistics in Al Anbar province.(Brigade Combat Team)
May 1, 2008... In June 2005, the 2d Brigade Combat Team. 28th Infantry Division (2-28 BCT), Pennsylvania Army National Guard (ARNG), deployed to A1 Anbar Province, Iraq, and began a year of sustained counterinsurgency operations against A1 Qaeda and various...

Automating property accountability: the current procedures for determining liability for property loss and damage have proven to be insufficient. Applying modern technology to the process will help the Army more effectively deter property loss.
May 1, 2008... From 2005 to 2006, the Army experienced a 17-percent increase in lost, damaged, or destroyed (LDD) equipment. In 2007, this trend continued with an alarming 36-percent increase in LDD equipment. In fact, since the introduction of the Financial...

Is it time to reconsider training for PBUSE? Now that Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced is in general use, it is time to look at the training provided to its operators and determine how that training can be improved.(Commentary)
May 1, 2008... After returning from Afghanistan in 2005, I gave my daughter--then 12 years old--her first iPod. Frankly, I was concerned that she was too young to figure out how to work it. Initially, she was a little uncertain about how to use it or the...

Graduate-level education for logisticians: the author uses her experience as a student to describe the Master of Military Logistics program at North Dakota State University, one of several universities offering a master's degree to Army logisticians.
May 1, 2008... The ability of the United States to fight and win wars rests on the military s ability to deploy and sustain troops in theater. Our logistics networks need to become even more flexible in order to respond to an increasingly unstable...

From just in case to just in time.(SPECTRUM)
May 1, 2008... In Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield, mountains of materiel were sent to the area of operations because no one knew precisely what was needed. Commanders anticipated the worst and ordered supplies accordingly. In his book, Moving...

Weakening the enemy from within.
May 1, 2008... Skillful generals will avoid lengthy campaigns because countries rarely benefit from extended war. Leaders unable to understand all the dangers and opportunities in deploying their armies will not correctly assess the long-term consequences of...

Army budget supports war and transformation.(ALOG NEWS)
May 1, 2008... The President's proposed budget for the Army, submitted to Congress in February, seeks to continue transformation efforts while supporting ongoing combat operations. The President is seeking $140.710 billion for the Army for fiscal year (FY)...

FM 3-0 makes stability operations a part of the army's core mission.(ALOG NEWS)(Field Manual 3 0)
May 1, 2008... The latest version of Field Manual (FM) 3 0, Operations, was released in late February. The revised FM contains several changes to Army operations doctine, the most important of which makes stability operations the third core Army mission,...

Army contracting command created.(ALOG NEWS)(Army Contracting Agency)
May 1, 2008... The Army has announced a major restructuring of the Army Contracting Agency (ACA) in an effort to improve Army contracting management, particularly in expeditionary operations. The ACA, which currently is a field operating agency reporting to...

Urban operations munition approved.(ALOG NEWS)(M1030 12-gauge shotgun breaching cartridge )(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Army has approved the release of a new munition that will be safer and more effective for Soldiers to use in urban environments. The M1030 12-gauge shotgun breaching cartridge will reduce the danger posed by ricocheting fragments when...

Ammunition plants realign.(ALOG NEWS)(Joint Munitions Command )(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Joint Munitions Command (JMC), a component of the Army Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command, Army Materiel Command, is realigning the command structure of its installations effective 1 June. The new organization will...

Government-owned containers prove to be cost effective.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... A Lean Six Sigma analysis resulted in a process for repairing Government-owned containers that is cheaper than leasing commercial containers. The process was used in a collaboration by the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), Army Intermodal and...

Ebooks available for soldier education.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Soldiers and civilians now have access to more than 36,000 books on line. The Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) provides "ebrary," a digital library whose books cover subjects that include logistics, education, military science,...

Army Career Tracker coming.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Army is developing a web-based career management tool, called Army Career Tracker (ACT), that will be used to integrate training, assignment history, and formal and informal education for Army military and civilian personnel. ACT will...

2008 NATO Standardization Conference slated.(UPCOMING EVENTS)(Conference news)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Standardization Conference will be held 15 to 18 September in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. The United States is co-hosting the conference with the NATO Standardization Agency and the...

International Defense Logistics conference planned.(UPCOMING EVENTS)(Conference news)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The International Defence Logistics 2008 conference will be held 3 to 6 June in Brussels, Belgium. The conference will feature over 50 speakers, including senior officers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the NATO Maintenance...