2010 Army Sustainment Magazine Archives
November-December 2010
The 3d Expeditionary Sustainment Command Supports Disaster Relief
Cover: The U.S. response to January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti required the 3d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) (ESC) to deploy into an expeditionary environment to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. To execute this no-notice mission, the command’s Soldiers had to adapt to conditions for which their previous deployments to Operation Iraqi Freedom offered few precedents. The articles beginning on pages 4 and 9 describe how the command deployed and operated in Haiti and the numerous “firsts” it had to accomplish in order to succeed. In the cover photo, 3d ESC equipment bound for Haiti is loaded onto a C−17 Globemaster transport at Louisville International Airport in Kentucky on 27 January. (Photo by Kentucky Air National Guard)
September-October 2010
A Logistician’s Legacy Comes to ALU
Cover: Lieutenant General (Ret.) William G. “Gus” Pagonis poses amid the personal archives he donated to the Army Logistics University (ALU) Library on 17 May 2010. General Pagonis was the lead logistician during the Persian Gulf War of 1990 to 1991. His carefully preserved record of his role in that conflict will allow ALU students and researchers to study and benefit from his lessons learned in one of the most complicated logistics operations in Army history. The article beginning on page 32 discusses his donation, which will be the foundation of ALU’s new Senior Sustainer’s Collection. (Photo by Julianne E. Cochran, Army Sustainment)
July-August 2010
Forward Support Company Operations in Haiti
Cover: While combat operations continued in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army, in January, responded to a different type of contingency: humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in Haiti following a catastrophic earthquake. The article beginning on page 6 describes the challenges faced by a forward support company of the 82d Airborne Division in the nonhostile but unstable environment of post-earthquake Haiti. In the cover photo, Soldiers help the crew of a Navy MH–53E Sea Dragon helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson unload food and supplies at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.(Photo by PO2 Daniel Barker, USN)
May-June 2010
Stability Operations in Iraq
Cover: Since the U.S.-Iraq security agreement took effect on 1 January 2009, U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq have transitioned to stability operations. This environment is characterized by a drawdown in U.S. troop levels, partnerships with Iraqi units for both training and joint operations, and support of humanitarian relief and reconstruction efforts. The articles beginning on pages 7 and 10 and the series of articles profiling the 16th Sustainment Brigade beginning on page 18 examine the sustainment of stability operations in Iraq. In the cover photo, a joint U.S. and Iraqi convoy lines up before leaving the staging area at Contingency Operating Base Speicher to deliver Iraqi textbooks to schools around Salah ad Din province.(Photo by SSG Raul Elliott)
March-April 2010
Logistics Training and Advisory Teams in Iraq
Cover: As the Army prepares to reduce its presence in Iraq, one of its most significant tasks is to train the Iraqi Army to manage and maintain its own supply, maintenance, and transportation systems. U.S. logistics training and advisory teams and military transition teams are deployed throughout Iraq to teach Iraqi soldiers how to most effectively complete logistics tasks, like ordering supplies and maintaining equipment. The articles starting on pages 18, 22, 26, and 29 highlight some recent training team missions in Iraq. On the cover, a military transition team Soldier trains a 6th Iraqi Army Division soldier to change out headlight assemblies on a high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle in Kadhimiya, Iraq. (Photo by Petty Officer 2d Class Robert J. Whelan, U.S. Navy)
January-February 2010
Aerial Resupply in Afghanistan
Cover: One of the great challenges of military operations in Afghanistan has been supporting U.S. and coalition units based at remote, often hard-to-reach locations dispersed across the country’s landscape of rugged mountains and trackless deserts. Yet Afghanistan’s lack of modern infrastructure, including its poor or nonexistent roads, and the continual threat of attack by insurgents and terrorists have often made the use of truck convoys—so characteristic of sustainment in Iraq—impractical, if not dangerous. In such a difficult military environment, aerial delivery of supplies has become a major feature of operations. The articles beginning on pages 23, 26, and 29 highlight aerial resupply in Afghanistan. On the cover, a Soldier with one of the logistics units deployed in Afghanistan—the 824th Quartermaster Company (Aerial Delivery)—loads a container delivery system bundle of food onto a C–17 transport. (Photo by SSgt. James L. Harper, Jr., U.S. Air Force.)
