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United States Army 15 SEPTEMBER 2011 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 12 ASC HISTORY NEWSLETTER port Directorate was managing This Month in APS, Materiel Management, RE- Field Support military history… The Field Support Directorate, un- called G3, Deputy for Support Op- SET, Theater Provided Equip- der the leadership of the Executive erations, but had the same missions ment, Left Behind Equipment, 1676: Rebels under Nathaniel Director for Field Support, is the as before. However, by 2004 Sup- and a number of other CONUS support operations heartbeat of the port Operations was taking on new and Army wide programs. ASC Bacon burn Jamestown, VA Army Sustainment Command. missions that began to drive the had become the CONUS TSC The command at Rock Island has evolution of the current ASC. First, and more with the Field Support 1777: Battle of Brandywine had some form of support opera- Support Operations took the lead in Directorate responsible for all of 1780: Benedict Arnold gives tions organization for almost a adjusting command missions to the mission areas other than dozen years with the structure support Army transformation and LOGCAP. British Major John Andre the changing significantly over time. the shift to brigade combat team plans to West Point based deployments. Secondly, Sup- Between FY08 and the present, In July 2001 the Deputy Com- port Operations began to look ahead the central role of the Field Sup- 1781: Battle at Eutaw manding General for Support Op- to determine how to posture the port Directorate has continued to Springs, SC erations was created within the US command to become the Army’s grow. In 2008 ASC gained Army Operations Support Com- CONUS based Theater Support workloading authority over the 1813: Captain Perry leads mand. Under the DCGOPS was a Command. In FY05 the command DOLs, giving the command the battle to gain control of Lake new Field Support Directorate re- was becoming not only the CONUS ability to fully manage RESET Erie sponsible for the Logistics Opera- TSC, but the Army’s materiel man- worldwide. Since late 2009 the tions Center, Logistics Assistance ager. Support Operations began to Field Support Directorate has 1847: US soldiers & Marines intensely managed the transfer of Program, LOGCAP, and Theater manage Theater Provided Equip- storm Chapultepec Castle, the DOLs from IMCOM to ASC Desks. The Support Operations ment as the command moved to- Mexico City Directorate was responsible for wards creation of the DMC. FY06 as AMC’s executive agent. Now, Field Support is managing global logistics, situational aware- and FY07 were critical years as the 1862: Antietam: bloodiest day the move to further increase ness, and ensuring the logistics Field Support Directorate gained in American history intelligence was tracked, analyzed, that name, assumed management of ASC’s role by creating the and shared horizontally across APS, and began to fill the materiel process and tools to become AMC. Support Operations management gap created through the Army’s Lead Materiel touched every element of Opera- the disestablishment of division and Integrator. The Field Sup- tions Sustainment Command mis- corps materiel management centers. port Directorate is responsi- sions in order to coordinate and During FY07 the Field Logistics ble for all of ASC’s major manage global operations. Readiness Directorate transferred to missions, other than LOG- ASC providing a direct source of CAP, and is finishing the By FY04 the name of the Support repair for Army RESET operations. transition for ASC to be- Operations Directorate was being Thus, by late 2007 the Field Sup- come the Army’s Logistics Advance on Dunker Church — Storefront. artist unknown month of vicious carnage perpe- 1864: “The Beefsteak Raid” Sioux uprising of 1862 trated by both sides, Little Crow Confederates capture 304 During the Civil War, Rock Island Sioux recognized that the Civil War and his men were defeated on prisoners & 2,000 cattle served as a POW camp for Con- provided an opportune time to re- September 22, 1862. federate prisoners. However, claim lost land as the Regular Army Over 500 Sioux were captured 1885: 1st Naval War College Rock Island was not the only mili- and US Volunteers were diverted to during the battle, with 300 Sioux class convenes tary installation within the Quad fight the Confederate Army. court-martialed. Thirty-eight Cities throughout the Civil War, On the Sioux were hung as a result of 1900: Battle of Mabitac: nor was it the only installation that morning the court-martial proceedings. Americans defeated by served as a Prisoner of War Camp. of August Following the court-martials, Filipinos Just across the river from the Is- 15, 1862, land in Davenport, Camp four Sioux 294 Sioux were sent to Camp 1918: US launches Saint- McClellan was constructed to braves McClellan for imprisonment. Mihiel offensive serve as a training facility for Iowa raided a Camp McClellan was far enough based Union Army Volunteers in settlement away from Minnesota to protect 1940: US imposes the draft August of 1861. While the camp at Acton, the Sioux from lynch mobs and was initially supposed to serve killing 5 1942: Japanese bomb US Little Crow — notorious leader was guarded by 2 companies of only as a training and hospital fa- Ameri- of the Sioux Uprising soldiers. The Sioux prisoners mainland cility, as the Civil War continued cans and remained at Camp McClellan for into 1862 soldiers at Camp prompting Little Crow and the 1950: Omar Bradley is three years until President John- McClellan were ordered to con- Sioux to declare war against the promoted to General of the son ordered their removal to Ne- struct the camp to hold expected U.S. The following day over 200 Army Confederate prisoners of war. Sioux warriors surrounded and braska in 1866. Camp Just as the new prison facility was opened fire on the Lower Sioux In- McClellan was torn down soon 1957: 300 troops escort nine erected at Camp McClellan, a new dian Agency. The United States after the release of the Sioux, black students to Central conflict emerged in Minnesota sent the few soldiers they could where the Dakota Sioux Indians spare, but these could not effec- and private homes were eventu- High School in AR resided along a 150 mile long, 20 tively protect the settlers, who ally built on the site. Today, the mile wide stretch of the Minnesota abandoned their homes rather than Village of East Davenport and 1982: US, Italian, & French River on the border of western face the Sioux attacks. Abraham the neighborhood of McClellan peacekeeping troops Minnesota and northeast South Lincoln directed Gen. John Pope to Heights stand where Camp arrive in Lebanon Dakota. Frustrated by meaningless lead six Minnesota Volunteer Infan- McClellan once looked down on treaties, land grabs by American try Regiments in order to quell the the Mississippi River. 1990: GHW Bush & settlers, and cultural tension, the Sioux uprising. 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