I WOULD EXPECT THAT IN OUR NEXT DECADE, WHEN THE DEFENSE BUDGET IS GOING TO BE UNDER ENORMOUS PRESSURE, THAT DLA WILL BE ASKED TO DO EVEN MORE, AND I THINK THAT WE’RE IDEALLY SUITED TO DO THAT.
materiel to Army units, consume it, potentially transfer it to the Iraqi secu- rity forces, and then ultimately, if it’s not needed in any of those areas, it comes to DLA for disposal.
Q. Is this a process that did not exist until the drawing out from Iraq?
A. Well, no, we had this capability around the globe, but certainly the volumes have been much bigger than anything we’ve ever dealt with. At the same time in Iraq, as the forces reduced and repositioned,
ACCOUNTABILITY IN ACTION
SPC Matthew Joy and PFC Justin Long, Order Specialists with the 620th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 96th Sustainment Brigade, work on organizing and accounting for Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs) to get them ready for pickup by another unit. Ensuring that operational rations, including MREs, are handled and delivered appropriately is an ongoing effort of DLA. (Photo by 1LT Erik Oberg.)
we had to make sure that the full range of DLA support was continuing. That was anything from restructuring the sys- tem support to all the facilities, and the operational rations, whether it’s MREs or unit-type rations. We had to basically restructure the fuel stocks to make sure that the support was always there, and maintain the spare parts support and the distribution support, leveraging a large distribution center that we operate in Kuwait for support up into Iraq. Cer- tainly I think the full spectrum of support in Iraq has been a big achievement.
Moving to Afghanistan, [it’s a] slightly different story, because, of course, instead of a drawdown, it’s been predominantly a buildup over the last couple of years and supporting a force that’s at a much greater operating tempo than what we experienced more than three or four years ago. The initial push two-plus years ago was in shipping a massive amount of construction materials into country to build out this expanded operating base network to essentially support the surge force. Then, once that had occurred, at the same time we had to build up
AS
C.ARMY.MI L
65
LOGISTICS
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140
