Translog articles from May 2002

Translog archives from May 2002

Growth and creativity: an interview with MTMC's commanding general.
May 1, 2002... Q. How has the MTMC Operations Center grown and evolved in the current War on Terrorism? A. It was last year at this time that we decided to centralize MTMC operations at Fort Eustis, to establish the position of Deputy Commanding General,...

Surface shipments sustain troops in Afghanistan.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... MTMC's surface transportation movements to Southwest Asia by railroad and road cross thousands of miles of land and some of the most forbidding territory in the world. Some shipments travel by ocean carrier to Bremerhaven, Germany, and...

MTMC assignment up front: Canadian officer spurs shipments to his mates in Afghanistan.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... For Maj. Serge Pelletier, it was only a short drive from MTMC Headquarters in Alexandria, Va., to Dover Air Force Base, Del. Two hours after he drove away from his job at MTMC's Joint Traffic Management Office to a new assignment at the...

Record LMSR load sails from Charleston.(cargo transport on Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off ship)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... The Military Traffic Management Command has loaded a record amount of cargo on a U.S. Navy Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off ship. MTMC's 841st Transportation Battalion loaded 1,740 individual pieces of equipment, totaling 347,593 square...

Record load ends legendary longshoreman's career.(Military Traffic Management Command operation)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The record-making load on the USNS Dahl closed a chapter in the local lore of longshoremen in the Charleston, S.C., area. Harry Palmer has stowed his last load. "If there were a picture of a longshoreman in the dictionary, it would be...

Good loadout begins with the stow planning. (ICODES).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Some of the most important steps in achieving the record loadout of the USNS Dahl took place before the ship even arrived: Documentation and stow planning. The work began with MTMC's automated stowing system: the Integrated Computer...

Single, worldwide center directs MTMC operations.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The biggest organizational change in the history of Military Traffic Management Command has produced a sweeping change in the work and mission of MTMC Fort Eustis. MTMC's worldwide Operations Center is now functioning from MTMC Fort...

Ops Center commander coordinates mission.(Military Traffic Management Command at Fort Eustis, Virginia)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The creation of MTMC's first worldwide, global headquarters is the most singular organizational event in the command's history. It represents an epic change for a continental United States Army headquarters. Beginning Nov. 7, the new MTMC...

Operations Center meets 21st--century challenges.(Fort Eustis, Virginia)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Translating commanders' intentions into efficient, tailored surface transportation solutions is a critical objective for the MTMC Operations Center. That is the mandate that Col. Dennis Faver, the Director of Deployment Operations at...

Displaced MTMC workers get full command support. (Reorganization).(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... While considerable change has taken place within the Military Traffic Management Command in recent years, impacted employees have benefited from a tremendous organizational support structure in both form and spirit. In fact, only two...

New mobile operations centers boost efficiency.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... There will be an enhanced capability to Military Traffic Management Command's short-term port operations in the future. The first of three MTMC mobile port operation centers is nearing completion. The centers will offer a highly mobile,...

MTMC seeks commercial transportation solution.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Military Traffic Management Command has taken the first step in a dramatic shift in the way it uses automation. The Army command held a presolicitation conference April 30, in Alexandria, Va., in search of a systems integrator to provide a...

DoD needs `innovative logistics,' advises former LMI chief.(Logistics Management Institute)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Adjustment to change is one of the biggest challenges confronting logisticians today, according to retired Army Gen. William G.T. Tuttle, Jr. "It is a leadership problem at all levels--we've got to help people change," said Tuttle, who...

Analyst's hunch boosts cut in customer wait time.(improvements in military transportation efficiency)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Lee Strong looked at the statistics and decided they did not look right. So he recomputed the Strategic Distribution Management Initiative data on surface shipments to the geographic combatant commanders. Strong's hunch was right. The...

MTMC Strategic Plan 2002 turns strategy into action; this is the third of a three-part series on MTMC's 2002 Strategic Plan.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Strategic Plan 2002 is providing the vision and strategy that will direct the movement and direction of the Military Traffic Management Command for the next five years. The plan is in two portions. Section I, discussed in last month's...

After-action reviews: MTMC Intranet offers operational insights.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The 950th Transportation Co. recently saw a lot of transportation activity. Members of MTMC's Bremerhaven, Germany, unit put almost 1,000 pieces of Kosovo peacekeeping cargo on nine different vessels over a 60-day period. Maj. Robert...

PowerTrack use increases for MTMC carrier payments.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... All transportation carriers of domestic military cargoes for the Military Traffic Management Command are now paid by PowerTrack automated software. In a period of three years, MTMC has instituted PowerTrack payments as a requirement for...

MTMC supports Marine LOTS operation in Qatar.(Military Traffic Management Command, Logistics Over-the-Shore)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... For the Military Traffic Management Command, our involvement in Qatar's first Logistics Over-the-Shore operation began with a phone call. The call went out to Capt. John Kotzman, the Commander of the Qatar Detachment, on March 4. The...

Summer surge expected to be slow this season.(household moving by military personnel)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Service members moving in this spring-summer's high personal property move period may be getting a break this year. Military and trade officials say the number of household goods shipments may not be as large as it has been in the last two...

Industry partner improves rails to Sunny Point Terminal.(CSX Transportation)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... When ammunition is shipped by railroad to and from the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, its journey includes a five-mile section connecting the main line with the Army's own tracks. Now, as a result of industry partnership, that...

MTMC draws praise of Okinawan Mayor.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... When a recent letter from the Mayor of Okinawa was published in "The Stars & Stripes," everyone at the Military Traffic Management Command battalion at Naha reacted with pride. "I would like to specifically address my deepest appreciation...

Faster ocean shipment ...
May 1, 2002... Distribution Analysis Center action officers hosted reporter Chris Gillis, of "American Shipper" magazine, for a story on the Strategic Distribution Management Initiative. The joint U.S. Transportation Command and Defense Logistics Agency...

Tough training challenges 840th for future missions.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... When the trains start arriving in Constanza, Romania, we will be ready. We will soon be at the receiving end of a 10th Mountain Division task force--900 pieces of cargo, returning from a Kosovo peacekeeping mission. For the transporters of...

Korean exercise tests post-discharge process.(Jim Staege at Combined Seaport Coordination Center, Pusan)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Far from his home assignment in Hawaii, strategic planner Jim Staege tests military planning in the distant Republic of Korea. "I need these coastal security updates translated into Hangul (the written Korean language)," said Staege, as his...

Commander starts thousands in race.(Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky celebrity starter in Washington race)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky is used to leading a large Army organization. Recently, he led an entire city. Privratsky served as the celebrity starter for 45,753 runners at the 26th Bloomsday road race in Spokane, Wash. May 5. "U.S....

Vintage cargo ship still carries the freight.(Liberty Ship John W. Brown)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Among the assortment of vessels gathered for the start of the latest leg of the Volvo Ocean Race off Annapolis, Md., was a vintage ship from another era. The Liberty Ship John W. Brown carried more than 400 race and history buffs to the...

Transporters provide hands--on deployment skills. (Army-Reserve Partnership).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... When an Army Reserve unit requested sealift deployment training from MTMC's 599th Transportation Group, it was logical that the request ended up on the desk of Carlos Tibbetts. At the Wheeler Army Air Field, Hawaii, headquarters, and at his...

Drill tests deployment procedures, process.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Future Military Traffic Management Command deployments will operate smoother because of a "rock drill" test of operational procedures. "We're going to work this until we finish," said Col. Dennis Faver, Chief, Deployment Operations...

Back home: MTMC reservist resumes his pre--mobilization life.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Col. David Smith is back home now. Smith, who retired after 32 years of military duty on March 7, is among the first of hundreds of Army Reservists working for Military Traffic Management Command to return to the life he had before Sept. 11...

Col. Smith reflects ... on owning a red Corvette.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... You might be wondering how one gets his wife to buy him a Corvette. Ever Since I was old enough to know about cars, I have always wanted to own a Corvette. I had even gone as far as getting a price quote on one exactly like the one I have now....

Virtual learning helps train hard-charging MTMC unit.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... These days, our lives are so fast-paced with mission requirements, that our learning has to lean on virtual media. I am a prime example. Being newly assigned to the 840th just over six months ago, life here in Izmir, Turkey has been at a...

Industry support ensures success of ship loading.(moving peacekeeping task force home)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Ship's speed was ever so much on our minds in early April as we waited in Rijeka, Croatia, to move the latest peacekeeping task force home from Bosnian duties. At a normal speed, the roll-on/roll-off vessel Saudi Tabuk would arrive late in...

Automation, strategies keep MTMC in contact.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Creative information management strategies and software are assuring the Military Traffic Management Command of the seamless operation of its twin headquarters elements. The distance between the Operations Center staff at Fort Eustis, Va.,...

MTMC begins shipment of Strykers to Army field units.(Military Traffic Management Command)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The first Stryker Interim Armored Vehicles are being shipped to Army units. The Military Traffic Management Command is shipping the new family of combat vehicles by commercial track carriers to receiving units at Fort Lewis, Wash. The...

New MTMC program: service members' POVs eligible for long--term storage.(personal vehicle storage)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Military service members ordered to overseas assignments where they are prohibited from taking a personal vehicle may now take advantage of a new Military Traffic Management-sponsored storage program. Since May 1, MTMC offers long-term...

Maritime Day 2002 honors legacy of Merchant Marine.(Abstract)
May 1, 2002... Capt. John Trimmer was too young to serve in World War II--but that did not stop him from serving as a Merchant Marine sailor in three armed conflicts. "I did not apply myself well at school," said Trimmer. "I went out and found myself a...

Tall ships visit MTMC port.(Transportation Battalion's Naha Military Pier, Japan)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... In what may be MTMC's biggest community relation's event ever, some 40,000 Okinawan citizens visited the 835th Transportation Battalion's Naha Military Pier on May 8-11. Some 42 tall ships from 16 countries participated as part of the World...

MTMC's direct booking initiative expands in scope.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The direct booking of ocean carrier shipments via the Web is fast becoming more and more popular among MTMC customers. The General Service Administration is about to rapidly boost the number of its direct booking ocean shipments. At a...

Soldiers' praise.(Command Sergeant Major's Coin)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Command Sgt. Maj. James Morgan shows off his new Command Sergeant Major's Coin. Morgan presented one of his first coins May 10 to Col. Victoria Leignadier, departing MTMC Headquarters, Alexandria, Va., for assignment as Commander, 598th...