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Navy Supply Corps officers providing support at the "Tip of the Spear".
SCOTTAIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (USTCNS)--As tensions with Iraq continue, Navy Supply Corps officers with U.S. Transportation Command are supporting U.S. Central Command's war preparations by ensuring troops, their equipment, and supplies get where they are needed, when they are needed
USTRANSCOM provides air, land and sea transportation for the Department of Defense, both in time of peace and war.
To help coordinate this vital movement of personnel and material, USTRANSCOM has assigned full-time Liaison Officers (LNOs) at all geographic unified combatantcommand headquarters, including USCENTCOM.
"Our LNOs supported commands, such as USCENTCOM are the commander's (of USTRANSCOM) personal representatives," said Air Force Col. Curtis Ross, deputy director of operations, USTRANSCOM. "Their primary purpose is to facilitate communications and to ensure the war fighter's requirements and priorities are understood. The goal is to provide exquisite support to the war fighter--and our LNOs have a well deserved reputation of making that happen."
"USCENTCOM is unique in its employment of LNOs," said CAPT Tom Welke, the Senior USTRANSCOM LNO at USCENTCOM Rear Headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Fla.
"Because of operational commitments, USCENTCOM Headquarters is currently organized in two locations." Welke explained. "The Forward Headquarters is located in Qatar; the USCENTCOM Rear Headquarters is located at MacDill AFB."
USCENTCOM has also established a Joint Mobility Center (JMC) in Kuwait. In addition to the seven LNOs at USCENTCOM Rear, six at USCENTCOM Forward, and five at the JMC, Welke says USTRANSCOM has an additional LNO assigned to USCENTCOM J-2, (intelligence) at USCENTCOM Forward, for a total of 19 LNOs.
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