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prepared to fight COVID-19 because of the work it conducted to prepare for a near-peer threat.
Post-COVID-19 response, the 49th MCB will
further build relationships with
Surface Deployment and Distribution Command’s 833rd and 834th Transporta- tion Battalions with seaports on the West Coast, the 841st Transportation Battalion on the East Coast and the 842nd Trans- portation Battalion in Texas. By 2021, the 49th also plans to mirror its Fort Hood partnerships with the Army field support battalions at other large posts containing III Corps subordinate units: Fort Bliss, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Carson, Colo- rado. Integrating dispersed MCTs directly into the work at Army field support battal- ions will both build the capability of the corps and act as a force multiplier for the corps’ subordinate divisions.
FINAL PREPARATIONS
Members of the 259th MCT support 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood during the Speed of War Exercise 2019. (Photo by Spc. Jonathan Haygood)
Corps and National Guard units. In addi- tion, the 49th MCB deployed four small teams to Poland to support Defender- Europe 20 units and planned to send another two in April 2020, before the unexpected halt of the exercise because of the spread of COVID-19.
CONCLUSION Te work of building relationships, train- ing Soldiers and incorporating branch movement control teams into the deploy- ment process to fill in gaps and assist deploying units is having positive effects today. As of April 2020, the 49th MCB headquarters is deployed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where it is serving as the movement control lead for the 377th Teater Support Command over three
expeditionary sustainment commands. Te 49th MCB will soon have six to eight MCTs apportioned to them, to control the movement of doctors, nurses, hospital support personnel and associated supplies to points of need.
By training Soldiers in MCTs to work at installation support nodes before the spread of COVID-19 and training the headquarters staff to track and direct the work of the MCTs at deployment sites, the 49th has ensured that cities get what they need when they need it. Te battal- ion will deploy branch movement control teams to cities across the U.S. to work at makeshift convoy rally points and at commercial airports. While different than the expected mission, the 49th MCB is
For more information, contact the 49th Movement Control Battalion at 254-287- 1664 or see Army Technical Publication 4-16, Movement Control.
MAJ. STEPHEN W. HUGHES is the battalion S-3, 49th Movement Control Battalion at Fort Hood. He holds an MBA from the University of Utah and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Utah State University.
MAJ. CARL S. MILLER is the battalion executive officer for the 49th Movement Control Battalion at Fort Hood. A grad- uate of the Advanced Military Studies Program, he holds an M.S. in psychology from the University of Phoenix, an M.A. in military operations from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and a B.A. in history from Stephen F. Austin State University.
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