BACK TO THE BASICS IN LOGISTICS


A NEW GENERATION


With time-honored technical logistics skills residing in a cadre of leaders who are approaching retirement, senior leaders need to coach, teach, and mentor subordinates on the basics of the profession as they rise in


the ranks. Here, the 113th Sustainment Brigade hosts an NCO induction ceremony at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, June 7 for 63 new sergeants. (U.S. Army photo by MAJ Matthew Devivo, 113th Sustainment Brigade)


defect” area. Underwrite your junior leaders and technicians, making them informal leaders among their peers.


 Take responsibility for your footprint. Too often we find excess in somebody’s footprint that they claim is not theirs. If it happens in your battlespace, it is your responsibility, even with logistics.


 Take control of Global Combat Support System – Army fielding for your organi- zation. Do not leave this to the product manager.


 Own your logistics data, because it is one of the Army’s most critical logistics assets.


 Use the Standard Army Management Information System the way it was designed to be used. If you are unsure about its operation, break out the user’s manual or ask a senior technician.


 Find out what you need to do to make


the Army audit-ready by 2017.


 Check on the Soldiers who are spend- ing the Army’s money. They need your guidance.


 Reestablish maintenance “shootouts” as we enter the unit-maintained equipment program. Running these forums is a lost art in the greater Army. The lack of a materiel management command at the division, corps, and theater levels will make this hard, but it is worth it.


 Consider making motor stables a regimented process. It may sound old- fashioned, but it has worked in the past.


 Do your best to work field service representatives out of a job. They won’t be around forever.


 And finally, get ready for unit- maintained equipment. It’s coming.


Tis commentary first appeared in the November-December 2012 edition of Army Sustainment


(http://www.alu.army. mil/alog). It is reprinted with permission.


BG STEVEN A. SHAPIRO is Deputy Com- manding General, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, Operation Enduring Free- dom (OEF), Afghanistan. He has a B.A. in political science from George Washington University, an M.S. in management logis- tics from the Florida Institute of Technology, and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. He is a graduate of the Ordnance Officer Basic and Advanced Courses and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Shapiro has commanded Soldiers in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Desert Storm as well as OEF.


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