New equipment training is a vital element of fielding the latest OCIE and PPE; PM SPIE’s Logistics Management Directorate supports about 200,000 deployed and deploying Soldiers a year. Here, a sniper team with 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment from Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA, wearing OCIE and PPE in the OEF Camouflage Pattern scans the area Jan. 30 from a rooftop in Spin Boldak District, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. (Photo by SSG Shane Hamann, 102nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)