2009 Army Sustainment Magazine Archives
November-December 2009
Support Starts Here: The Sustainment Center of Excellence
Cover: This issue focuses on a major development in the history of Army sustainment—the establishment of the Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE) at Fort Lee, Virginia. The creation of the SCoE, which was mandated by the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission, has involved significant expenditures of funds, execution of major construction projects, and intricate synchronization of moves and reorganizations among many parties—all carefully coordinated to ensure that development of the SCoE is achieved without interrupting or reducing the training required by the Army’s sustainment Soldiers and civilians. The cover photo is an aerial view of the heart of Fort Lee, with the new SCoE headquarters building in the foreground. Directly behind it is Mifflin Hall, which was for many years the home of the Quartermaster Center and School. The huge new Ordnance School campus can be seen under construction in the upper left corner. This is the home of Army sustainment; support does indeed start here.
September-October 2009
Introducing the Army’s bulletin for Sustainers Commemorating 40 Years of Army Logistician
Cover: One look at the cover will tell you that this magazine has undergone a significant change: Army Logistician is now Army Sustainment. This is not just a name change. While the magazine will continue to cover all areas of logistics, it also will include more articles on other sustainment functions. So, for this first issue with the Army Sustainment name, we feature articles, contributed by the Soldier Support Institute at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, that discuss various aspects of personnel services; they begin on pages 9, 12, 15, and 19 The change to Army Sustainment also coincides with the publication’s 40th anniversary, and articles beginning on pages 2, 3, 5, 6, and 30 commemorate the milestone. For the cover, we turned for inspiration to our 10th anniversary issue in 1979 and reproduced covers of past issues to show how the magazine’s appearance has evolved over four decades.
July-August 2009
Modular Sustainment in Iraq
Cover: A shower, laundry, and clothing repair (SCLR) specialist with the 549th Quartermaster Company, 68th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, from Fort Carson, Colorado, folds clothes at Patrol Base Murray, Iraq. Before a SLCR team arrived at the patrol base, Soldiers had to wash their laundry by hand or send it on a convoy to Forward Operating Base Falcon and then wait 3 to 4 days to get it back. With the SCLR team deployed, Soldiers had to wait only 24 hours to get their laundry back. The article beginning on page 32 describes how SCLR teams provided clean clothes, hot showers, and textile repairs to Soldiers in the field. Articles beginning on pages 24 , 27 , 36 , 38 and 42 discuss other support provided by units under the 1st Sustainment Brigade in Iraq. (Photo by SPC Andrea Merritt)
May-June 2009
Convoy Security
Cover: The common operating environment has proven that all Soldiers, not just those in maneuver units, need to be equipped to protect themselves from enemy attack. While transporting supplies, logistics convoys are escorted by security teams to defend themselves from attack. The articles beginning on pages 28 , 32 and 35 explore the use of convoy security teams in Operation Iraqi Freedom. On the cover, Soldiers from the 626th Brigade Support Battalion, 3d Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), perform precombat checks on their gun trucks before a convoy. (Photo by SPC Luke Thornbury, 55th Signal Company)
March-April 2009
Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore: Pacific Strike
Cover: Since World War II, the Army often has faced the challenge of deploying troops and materiel onto undeveloped shores or to areas without usable port facilities. The solution has been joint logistics over-the-shore (JLOTS) operations, in which the Army and the Navy work together to move a ground force directly from ship to shore. The articles beginning on pages 20 and 24 describe the largest JLOTS exercise ever held in peacetime, the U.S. Transportation Command’s Pacific Strike 2008 in California. A JLOTS operation requires much specialized equipment, including the Army’s floating causeway trident pier shown on the cover. The trident pier allows Army and some Navy watercraft to unload rolling stock across the surf zone onto a beach.
January-February 2009
The 3d Sustainment Brigade: A Modular Unit in Iraq
Cover: In the current operating environment, Army logistics units are often required to fill force protection roles in addition to their traditional missions. On the cover, the 104th Transportation Company, 927th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB), conducts a convoy security operation near Contingency Operating Base Speicher in northern Iraq. The 927th CSSB was attached to the 3d Sustainment Brigade in support of Multi-National Division-North. The articles on pages 8 through 35 highlight the 3d Sustainment Brigade's diverse missions while it was deployed to Iraq as a completely modular sustainment brigade.
