9TH Annual Joint Services Environmental Management (JSEM) Conference

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9TH Annual Joint Services Environmental
Management (JSEM) Conference
Integrating Environmental Programs into Core
Business Practices for
A Joint and Expeditionary Army

• MG Larry Lust
• ACSIM, HQ DA
• 17 August 2004

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Train and equip Soldiers and grow leaderso
Provide relevant and ready land power
capabilities to the Combatant Commander and the
Joint Team
Integrating Environmental Programs into Core
Business Practices
ARMY CORE COMPETENCIES
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TRAINING LANDS
Integrating Environmental Programs into Core
Business Practices

• Land management (worldwide) 16 M acres
• - 15.3 M acres are ranges and maneuver areas
• Continue to make wise investments - not just
  meet compliance requirements
• - Sustainable Range Program (SRP)
• - Army Compatible Use Buffer Initiative (ACUB)
  

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ACQUISITION/EQUIPMENT
Integrating Environmental Programs into Core
Business Practices

• Stryker Program Management Office (PMO)
  established an interagency environmental
  management team that focused on
• - Testing studied life-cycle environmental
  impacts and pollution prevention considerations
  and incorporated them into the design
• - Manufacturing developed the first halon-free
  crew explosion protection system that
  eliminates many uses of cadmium and chromium
• - Operations a design that catches spent shell
  casings and that also traps fluids that were
  released to the environment in other combat
  vehicles
• - Disposal reduced hazardous materials use in
  the design, manufacturing, and operations
  processes

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SOLDIERS/LEADERS
Integrating Environmental Programs into Core
Business Practices
Installations must be capable of supporting the
training of Soldiers into the next century and
not limit or jeopardize the ability to meet the
mission in the future

• Soldier/Leader training its about our people
  and it starts when a soldier joins the Army
• Environmental Awareness/Training Army wants
  all of its people to know and understand the
  connectivity of our mission and the environment
  
• Well-Being - Residential Community Initiative
  (RCI)
• - Energy and water management
• - DPW supporting people, readiness, and
  transformation

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Integrating Environmental Programs into Core
Business Practices
By integrating our Environmental Programs into
our Core Business Practices we enable the Armys
Core Competencies for this and future
generations of heroes...
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