SYNCHRONIZING THE FORCE


REDEPLOYMENT


Moving people and materiel is a task with many moving parts, and Army G-8 is at the center of it, working to help make sure all players are at the table. Here, U.S. military members board a C-17 Globemaster III during a redeployment mission at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 9, 2012. (Photo by 2LT Clay Lancaster, U.S. Air Force)


improvements or modernization to meet long-term sustainment objectives?


We’ve had a series of conversations about the follow-on for STIR, and we believe that’s going to be the aircraft inspection maintenance and sustainment program. But if we don’t decide quickly, there are issues. You get past ’14, with all the helicopters back, and there’s no enhanced sustainment-level program in place for ’15. We may lose our window of opportunity if we don’t fix them in 2014-15. When will the opportunity present itself to get our helicopters up to the highest standards? And where do we do it? Do we use Corpus Christi [Army Depot, TX], or do we give more work to the local directorates of logistics, which are now operated by AMC, versus the local installation? We’re actively working on this issue, because I think we’re going to lose an opportunity


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if we don’t get a program in place over the next couple of months as we work the 2015 OCO budget and look at transition with the requirements. Te G-4 is heavily involved, AMC, Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command and, of


Tey are critical for any enhancements.


Army AL&T: What are the biggest chal- lenges that G-8 is facing with respect to R4D, and how are you dealing with them?


Skibicki: Tere are actually three different working groups that are dealing with Afghanistan and equipping, when equipment is arriving, leaving and retrograding. Te reset task force was the first, because that was all during Iraq. We also stood up a task force called the EDR2B, the Equipment Deployment- Redeployment Review Board, based on


course, ASA(ALT).


lessons from Iraq. We tried to meter the equipment going into and out of Afghanistan, and built the Teater- Provided Equipment [TPE] sets in Afghanistan to minimize the traffic flow in and out. We just stood up the third one in spring of 2013—the R4D process. In R4D, we focus on how we integrate the retrograde and redeployment with our reset task force work. Te biggest challenge we have with the R4D is making sure we get the right equipment home at the right time to get it back into the hands of the next deployers.


Army AL&T: How does automatic reset induction [ARI] work? What role do tools such as the Lead Materiel Integrator [LMI] Decision Support Tool [DST] and the redistribution property assistance team [RPAT] play?


Army AL&T Magazine


October–December 2013


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