Army Logistician articles from September 2004

Army Logistician archives from September 2004

Army leaders describe strategic rationale for army change.(ALOG News)
September 1, 2004... The Army's senior leaders have released a paper summarizing the intellectual foundations for the profound changes that the Army is now pursuing. The paper, "Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary...

Joint and expeditionary logistics for a campaign-quality army.
September 1, 2004... The Army must provide regional combatant commanders with a campaign-quality force that has joint and expeditionary capabilities. Such a force requires interdependent, joint logistics capabilities that support the full range of military...

Logistics challenges in support of operation enduring freedom.
September 1, 2004... The fundamental challenge of providing combat service support (CSS) in Afghanistan from late 2003 to mid-2004 was changing the focus from an expeditionary operation to a steady-state operation. Previously, the mission was viewed in the...

The changing face of medical logistics in Afghanistan.
September 1, 2004... With each succeeding rotation to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, troops are assuming more of a support, stability, and nation-building role and less of a combat operation. As a result, processes are in place for organizations sent to...

Names, numbers, and nomenclatures: finding the right name for an item in the supply system is not as easy as it may seem. Here is the author's guide to navigating the names and numbers of Defense cataloging.
September 1, 2004... Has this ever happened to you? You're deployed somewhere as part of a joint task force, and someone quite senior to you--a mean, grouchy, nonlogistician type--points to an object and says, "I want one of those!" Your first inclination is to...

Toward a union of deployment and distribution.(Commentary)
September 1, 2004... Operation Iraqi Freedom once again proved that our current doctrine and automated systems for planning and executing the deployment and sustainment of forces are inadequate to the needs of the Army and the combatant commanders. Our systems...

Moving the force across Europe: EUCOM's Joint Movement Center.(European Command)
September 1, 2004... More than 95 percent of U.S.-based units moving to Iraq and Afghanistan transit the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) area of responsibility (AOR). The organization responsible for managing these movements through Europe, as well as the movement of...

Gaining visibility of excess commercial equipment: IMA's Northwest Region found a way to make commercial, nonstandard items available for extended use before they are reported as excess.
September 1, 2004... Army Installation Management Agency (IMA) was established on 1 October 2002 to provide equitable, effective, and efficient management of Army installations worldwide in support of mission readiness and execution. IMA operates through seven...

Configured loads: a new look at an old concept.
September 1, 2004... Units around the Army have used configured loads for years. Standard packages for barrier materials can be found in the tactical standing operating procedures in just about every division and brigade across the Army. What has not been done...

Development and execution of the TAMP: the author discusses how James A. Huston's 16 "Principles of Logistics" played an important role in the operation of the theater aviation maintenance program during the first Gulf War.(Theater Aviation Maintenance Program)
September 1, 2004... The January-February 2004 issue of Army Logistician contained an article by Craig A. Simonds on The Role of Civilians During the First Gulf War." As a defense contractor who participated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, I was...

Managing soldiers in the theater support command: in the second article of a three-part series, the author examines the foundation of the theater support command--its people--and what the Army needs to do to keep them and make them into an integrated team.
September 1, 2004... As I stated in an earlier article on the theater support command (TSC), "The heart of the TSC organization is its people." Teamwork and continuous improvement become empty concepts if TSC leaders cannot rely on the personal integrity of each...

Fueling the force at the JRTC.(Joint Readiness Training Center )
September 1, 2004... Fueling the force challenges many of the rotational units at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, Louisiana, as they conduct operations on Cortina, the mythical island on which units at the JRTC fight. If not done correctly,...

Single fuel characteristics.(Log Notes)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... Your July-August 2004 issue contains a well-written and very informative article that warrants some clarification. The article "Analyzing the Lessons of OIF Distribution" gave considerable insight on how to apply lessons learned. However, two...

Order logistics transformation posters.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Army logisticians and other interested parties can obtain copies of the five posters on Army Logistics Transformation created by the Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4. To order a particular poster or the entire series of five, call...

Sense-and-respond prototype could transform resupply.(ALOG News)
September 1, 2004... The Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Force Transformation, in partnership with a Washington-based company, Synergy Inc., is testing a prototype resupply system that may help solve the type of resupply problems experienced in the early days...

AMC offers lessons learned system.(ALOG News)(Army Materiel Command)
September 1, 2004... To improve its support to soldiers, Army civilians, and contractors and to the development of new technologies, the Army Materiel Command (AMC) has created an online system for recording the critical observations and comments of personnel in...

CSS VSAT connects logisticians.(ALOG News)(combat service support)(Very Small Aperture Terminal)
September 1, 2004... A prototype satellite communications system promises to give forward-deployed combat service support (CSS) units communications capabilities equal to those used in garrison. The system, CSS Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT), can be...

SDDC improves Web site for transportation calculations.(ALOG News)(Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command)
September 1, 2004... The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) is making several improvements to the Defense Table of Official Distances (DTOD) Web site. The DTOD program provides official distance mileage calculations for Department of...

BDU replacement introduced.(ALOG News)(battledress uniform)
September 1, 2004... After two decades as the Army's standard field clothing, the battledress uniform (BDU) will be replaced. In June, the Army unveiled its successor, the Army combat uniform (ACU), a new design based on input from noncommissioned officers and...

Army modularization schedule set.(ALOG News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... As the Army transforms, it is converting its active divisions to modular, brigade-plus-sized units of action. The first division to complete this conversion was the 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Stewart, Georgia, which grew from...