AGILE WARFIGHTER SUSTAINMENT

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AGILE WARFIGHTER SUSTAINMENT

• Presented By
• LTG (Ret.) Roy Beauchamp, U.S. Army
• September 17, 2007

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Who Am I?

• Lieutenant General Retired, U.S. Army
• Career Logistician 37 years
• Vietnam, Desert Shield, Desert Storm
• Commanded Logistics Operations
• Company
• Installation
• Battalion
• Corps
• DLA
• AMC
• Managed Logistics Operations
• Battalion
• Corps Support Command
• FORSCOM
• DA
• CENTCOM
• AMC

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Strategic Context

• We are a Nation at War.
• It will be a Prolonged Conflict.
• We MUST have the Capability to Move Quickly,
  Aggressively Decisively.
• The Requirement
• Sufficient forces
• Logistics capability in depth

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The Challenges

• How do we Sustain?
• How do we Reset, Repair, Return?
• How do we Deploy/Retrograde?

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What We Must Have
A Responsive Supply System

• A Fully-Integrated Distribution System
• Fully-integrated information systems
• Fully-integrated transportation links
• Fully-integrated transportation agencies
  servers, DLA, TRANSCOM, industry, security

• A Fully-Transparent Distribution System
• Timely, accurate information to all users
• Answers the key questions Wheres my stuff?
  When will I get it?

• A Highly Efficient Effective System
• Reduces time
• Reduces costs

• An Agile System that Serves Users, Depots,
  Installations, SRAs, Contractors

Its NOT just TRANSPORTATION!
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The Sustainment Challenge

• Nearly 200,000 Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, Sailors
  Deployed.
• They Are Not Training . . . They Are Fighting!
• Everything They Require Except Adrenaline
  Must Be Provided By Someone Else.
• About 2,000 5T Truck Loads Every Day.
• Bumper-to-Bumper Almost 23 Miles
• Daily Pipeline Value Tens of Millions . . .
  Every Day Counts!

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The RESET Challenge

• Approximately 40 of the Force Deployed.
• Harsh, Unforgiving Operating Conditions.
• 1 Year Combat Use 7 Years Normal Use.
• Much Equipment was Old when it Went Over.
• Equipment Must Be
• Returned quickly
• Repaired quickly
• Reissued quickly

IF WE DONT DO THIS BETTER THAN WEVE EVER DONE
IT BEFORE, WE RUN THE RISK OF NOT HAVING AN
EFFECTIVE ARMY IN VERY FEW YEARS.
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The Retrograde Challenge

• Sooner or Later . . . We Will Leave.
• We Must Move the Equivalent of the City of
  Charleston.
• It Must Be Done
• Efficiently to enable quick effective
  re-constitution of units
• Quickly to maintain the military capacity of
  the Nation
• Transparently so units know what is coming,
  where it is when it will arrive
• Includes
• Vehicles end items tens of thousands
• Unit equipment
• Containers
• Consumable supplies

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Success Will Require

• DOD Component Partnerships
• DOD/Industry Partnerships
• Inter-Industry Partnerships

We MUST do it BETTER than we have EVER done it
before!
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Conclusion

• LOGISTICS SETS THE CAMPAIGNS OPERATIONAL LIMITS.