2011 Army Sustainment Magazine Archives
November-December 2011
Theater Postal Support
Cover: Since the Revolutionary War, receiving mail from home has lifted the morale of U.S. Soldiers in the field. Even in this era of email and social media, Soldiers still look forward to receiving letters and packages. Postal operations can be an overlooked aspect of sustainment that supports deployed personnel. The articles beginning on pages 26, 30, and 37 describe postal support provided by the 43d Sustainment Brigade in Afghanistan and the 1st Sustainment Brigade in Kuwait, including the role of the human resources operations branch and the establishment of satellite Army post offices. In the cover photo, a Soldier with the 328th Human Resources Company, 43d Sustainment Brigade, helps a Sailor sort mail at the Kandahar Airfield post office for delivery to military personnel in Afghanistan.
September-October 2011
Finding The MRAP's Future Role
Cover: The MRAP—the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle—might turn out to be the iconic image of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Department of Defense acquired MRAPs to meet an urgent requirement: protecting troops on the move against improvised explosive devices. But the rapid fielding of this solution to a specific challenge has created issues of doctrine, training, sustainment, and integration into the Army's force structure and raised questions about how the MRAP will fit into the Army's future plans. In the articles beginning on pages 24, 26, 28, and 30, four officers examine how the MRAP should be used. In the cover photo, Soldiers check returning MRAPs after a combat patrol at Camp Spann in Afghanistan.
July-August 2011
The 1st Sustainment Brigage and ARFORGEN
Cover: All sustainment brigades face the challenge of identifying their role in a garrison environment during the train-ready and reset phases of the Army Force Generation cycle. The 1st Sustainment Brigade developed a sustainment operations center to improve its home-station support between deployments. The article beginning on page 6 describes how the brigade developed the sustainment operations center using the Army Enterprise Governance Model and how the center operated when the brigade deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom 10–11. A related article beginning on page 34 looks at one aspect of that deployment: the use of airdrop to supply Soldiers widely dispersed across Afghanistan. The cover photo shows container delivery system bundles being dropped over Afghanistan.
May-June 2011
Sustainment Brigade Medical Operations
Cover: Health service support and force health protection have become important aspects of sustainment. The articles beginning on pages 6, 10, 13, and 36 look at the activities of brigade support medical companies, a sustainment brigade’s brigade surgeon section, and the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center, Korea. Force health protection seeks to improve Soldier health, casualty prevention, and casualty care. Often the first care that wounded Soldiers receive is from fellow Soldiers on the battlefield who have received combat lifesaver training. In the cover photo, Soldiers from the 1st Sustainment Brigade provide medical aid during the hands-on portion of the Combat Lifesaver Course. (Photo by SSG Matthew Veasley)
March-April 2011
A Vision of Army Logisitcs with 20/20 Hindsight
Cover: The identification of the need for a “Revolution in Military Logistics” in the late 1990s led to major improvements in force sustainment, force projection, and technology application and acquisition agility. In the article beginning on page 3, the Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff, G−4, Lieutenant General Mitchell H. Stevenson, looks back over the last decade and evaluates how far the Army has come and what still needs to be done to achieve the envisioned revolution. Technological advances such as the very small aperture terminal (VSAT) have played a major role in implementing logistics transformation. In the cover photo, a sergeant with the 311th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) performs a maintenance check on a VSAT in Southwest Asia.
January-February 2011
Natural Fire 10: U.S. Army Africa's First Major Exercise
Cover: Natural Fire 10 was the first major exercise for U.S. Army Africa (USARAF), the Army service component command of the U.S. Africa Command, and it was the largest deployment of U.S. forces in Africa since World War II. Africa presents physical, administrative, and cultural challenges to deploying U.S. forces. As described in the article beginning on page 34 USARAF overcame these challenges by using the adaptive logistics network concept, which maximized the use of existing systems on the continent. In the cover photo, a CH–47 Chinook helicopter approaches Kitgum, Uganda. Kitgum is the headquarters of the 401st Brigade of the Ugandan Peoples Defense Force and the site of the exercise. (Photo by SSG Horace Murray)
