MANY POSSIBLE PATHS


worth moving back to the United States,” said COL Glenn Baca, SDDC’s director of operations. “Currently, they’re saying there is about $7 billion in property that’s more economical to either destroy in the- ater or donate to our partners as excess defense items.”


Te vast majority of equipment will be moved out of Afghanistan. No mat- ter what the process—retrograde, reset, redistribution or redeployment—and no matter which service owns it, once the cargo is ready to move, in most cases SDDC is responsible for making that happen.


To ensure the success of the Afghanistan redeployment, SDDC officials said U.S. forces must overcome physical, envi- ronmental, political and operational constraints,


as well as enemy threats


and cost factors. Marisa Bealor, deputy chief of SDDC’s Command Operations Center, said the command also must balance the velocity (speed of moving cargo) that commanders on the ground want with the efficiency (low cost) that the services want and current fiscal constraints demand.


Although challenges exist, SDDC experts have answers. To handle the monumental task of moving equipment out of Afghan- istan, SDDC last year unveiled a new approach to logistics dubbed Velocity Volume Distribution Retrograde (V2DR).


HOMEWARD BOUND The SDDC’s V2DR tool identifies early what cargo, large and small, is being shipped out of Afghanistan and which routes and modes of transportation will expedite moving it. Here, Soldiers with the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (1/1 CAV), redeploying to Fort Hood, TX, after a year in Afghanistan, load bags onto an open trailer May 14 at Camp Marmal, Balkh province, Afghanistan. The bags then went to the flight line for shipment stateside. (Photo by SGT Richard Wrigley, 1/1 CAV Public Affairs)


As Bealor put it, V2DR is designed to balance the volume of cargo against the velocity at which the cargo needs to travel. It does this by identifying early what cargo is being shipped, and which routes and modes of transportation will expe- dite moving the cargo out of Afghanistan. Additionally, V2DR extends the ret- rograde delivery window from 10 to 21 days, which allows for aggregation


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October–December 2013


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