ROUND-THE-CLOCK SHIPPING


Personnel assigned to SDDC’s COC plan, direct, synchronize, coordinate and monitor global surface movements and port operations through subordinate operational commands and strategic seaports. The COC maintains operational oversight of all SDDC operations 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. (U.S. Army photo by Mark Diamond, SDDC Public Affairs)


To handle the numerous issues involved with transporting the enormous volume of equipment across dozens of countries using multiple modes of transportation, personnel assigned to SDDC’s 595th and 598th Transportation Brigades are located throughout Afghanistan and various locations along the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) to closely manage customs issues along with con- tract and cargo operations.


Te 595th Transportation Brigade provides transportation expertise at major forward operating bases (FOBs) and redistribution property assistance team (RPAT) yards in Afghanistan, as well as several U.S. embassies and multimodal sites within that theater of operations. Once cargo crosses the Afghanistan border into the NDN,


brigade personnel hand off operations to the 598th Transportation Brigade.


When it comes to moving equipment out of Afghanistan, a common expres- sion around SDDC is, “Everyone knows Iraq and Afghanistan are dif- ferent, but they still want Iraq results.” But Scott Wadyko, lead traffic manage- ment specialist and movement execution supervisor with the COC,


said com-


paring the redeployment operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is like comparing apples and oranges.


“Tey’re both fruit, but that’s where it ends,” he said. “In Iraq, we had Kuwait. In Iraq, if I moved something to an RPAT yard and there wasn’t room, I could move it to the next RPAT yard, and if there still wasn’t room, I could


move it into Kuwait; and I could put U.S. military eyes on the cargo throughout the entire process. We don’t have those luxuries in Afghanistan.”


Another issue with moving cargo out of Afghanistan is the number and types of


transportation experts call “ground lines


of communication”


supply routes, or what U.S. Army (GLOCs).


While most of the cargo travels out of Afghanistan through Pakistan—called the Pakistan GLOC (PAKGLOC)— cargo also moves out of Afghanistan to the north, through the NDN. SDDC officials said the NDN stretches from the Baltic ports in the northern part of eastern Europe to Afghanistan, traversing Russia and more than a dozen other countries. Additionally, some


cargo leaves Afghanistan via


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