2012 Army Sustainment Magazine Archives
November-December 2012
Logistics Support And Mission Challenges
Cover: MSG Patrick Perez, a noncommissioned officer-in-charge with the 3d Battalion, 401st Army Field Support Brigade, and SGT Joriann Garcia Hernandez, a supply sergeant with the 427th Brigade Support Battalion, discuss cargo placement inside the redistribution property accountability team yard (RPAT) at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. RPAT operations are one part of reverse logistics.
September-October 2012
Logistics Convoy Security
Cover: In the current operating environment, sustainment units often provide their own security escorts. Prior to its deployment to Afghanistan, the 49th Transportation Battalion (Movement Control) prepared its units to perform a convoy security mission. The articles on pages 32 and 40 describe this training. The deployment of the 24th Brigade Support Battalion (BSB), 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, who conducted logistics convoy security in theater, is also highlighted in this issue. The articles beginning on pages 4 through 17 highlight the sustainment operations conducted by the 24th BSB in Afghanistan. On the cover, a gunner with a security platoon from the 24th BSB prepares an M2 .50-caliber machinegun for a 215-mile supply run from Camp Deh Dadi II to Forward Operating Base Griffin, Afghanistan.
July-August 2012
U.S Army Transportation Corps
Cover: On 31 July 2012, the Transportation Corps will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its establishment. To commemorate this milestone, the article on page 3 outlines the corps’ way ahead for the future and the article on page 9 reflects on the corps’ history. The cover of this issue displays a special 70th anniversary poster that includes a larger photo of current Transportation operations in Afghanistan surrounded by smaller photos of Transportation operations of the past. (Photo by Mark Lee Shanks, Army Transportation Museum)
May-June 2012
Ordnance Corps Bicentennial 1812-2012
Cover: The Ordnance Corps celebrates its bicentennial on 14 May. Building on a proud heritage of 200 years of service to the Nation, the men and women of today's Ordnance Corps provide maintenance, ammunition handling, and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) support to warfighters around the world. The articles beginning on pages 4 and 6 look at the present and the past of the Ordnance Corps. In the cover photos (clockwise from the upper left), an Ordnance Soldier uses a forklift to move munitions at Joint Base Balad, Iraq; a mechanic reattaches hoses and wires in a generator after an engine is replaced at Camp Liberty, Iraq; an EOD Soldier prepares a controlled detonation of ordnance outside of Forward Operating Base Clark, Afghanistan; and an armament repair specialist reinstalls lugnuts on the wheel of a trailer at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq. (Photo by SPC Michael Camacho, SGT Phillip Valentine, SPC Tobey White, and SGT David Scott.)
March-April 2012
Commanding An Army Field Support Battalion
Cover: As the Army Materiel Command's operational arm, the Army field support brigade (AFSB) provides Soldiers with acquisition, logistics, and technology support on the battlefield. When required, an AFSB can employ an Army field support battalion (AFSBn) to provide constant support for multiple operations. An AFSBn normally manages Army pre-positioned stocks in peacetime, but it can be assigned additional functions in contingency deployment situations and has tailored capabilities for specific missions. It synchronizes and integrates the activities and capabilities of program managers, life cycle management commands, and sustainment support organizations. The article beginning on page 34 describes one officer's experience commanding an AFSBn in Kuwait. On the cover, a Soldier inventories basic-issue items before signing for a high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle from the 2d Battalion, 401st Army Field Support Brigade, during Exercise Friendship II at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Photo by Galen Putnam, 402d Army Field Support Brigade Public Affairs)
January-February 2012
Joint Task Force–Port Opening
Cover: After Haiti experienced a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that caused extensive destruction and displaced citizens, the Army sent Soldiers to execute a joint task force–port opening (JTF–PO) mission in support of the enormous humanitarian effort. The unit's ability to provide rapid port opening, set up accurate in-transit visibility, and establish a robust distribution network in Haiti provided a proof of concept for the JTF–PO, which is discussed in the article beginning on page 3. On the cover, a logistics support vessel from the 335th Transportation Detachment from Fort Eustis, Virginia, downloads containers of World Food Program rice at Haiti's main port in support of relief operations. (Photo by MSG Adam McKinney)
