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A Warfighting Theater Sustainment t h g i n s a B e n o r y T G S S / y m r A . S . U Above, the 21st Theater Sustainment Command (TSC) uses the Humvee Egress Assis- tance Trainer to teach soldiers how to better react to vehicle rollovers. The 21st TSC pro- “A warfighting vides theater sustainment throughout EUCOM and AFRICOM areas of responsibility. theater sustainment command providing expeditionary sustainment within a theater of operations while sustaining force projection and the I I I z sustainment base. e h c n a S k A team of warriors as n a r F T G S flexible and agile as / y m r A . S the units we support. U A 5th Quartermaster Company (QM) paratrooper receives hands-on instruction from a A war-focused outfit!” French paratrooper about the functions and capabilities of the French parachute. The 5th QM Co. participates in about 60 airborne operations a year across the European theater with foreign militaries and other U.S. military units. 30 ARMY I June 2009 By MG Yves J. Fontaine and MAJ Grant Morris Soldiers on the night shift at the 21st TSC’s Combined Operations and In- telligence Center (COIC) prepare for an operations briefing during a recent exercise. The COIC is the nerve sys- tem of the 21st TSC—where sustain- ment operations in EUCOM and AFRICOM are managed and tracked. U.S. Army/Michael Bowers n September 2005, U.S. Army Europe (US- Since 2007, the 21st TSC has undergone a transfor- AREUR) operationalized the USAREUR mation—adding several enabling functions, such as plan supporting Army modularization and human resources, finance and operational contracting, global rebasing, directing the downsizing and developing an expeditionary mind-set focused on and transformation of almost every Army five lines of operation that guide the command as we activity in Europe. In July 2007, USAREUR support the day-to-day activities of USAREUR: officially transformed the legacy three-tiered eche- I Support the war on terrorism and theater opera- lons-above-brigade logistics infrastructure to a sin- tions. gle command, the 21st Theater Sustainment Com- I Transform the 21st Theater Sustainment Com- mand (TSC)—the only forward stationed, active mand into an expeditionary force. component theater sustainment command providing I Sustain the theater base. day-to-day operational sustainment to two combat- I Soldier and family welfare. ant commands. I Build the bench. June 2009 I ARMY 31 The 21st TSC staff work diligently in- side the forward command post (FCP) during a training exercise. The FCP is a 21st TSC early-entry as- set that deploys to support theater opening and distri- bution as well as reception, staging, onward movement and integration functions across the European and African theaters of operation. /SPC Jason Nolte y Arm U.S. Support the War on Terrorism diers from around Germany received individual readiness And Theater Operations training in preparation for deployment. Over the past As the requirement to provide trained and ready forces year, we have prepared more than 4,000 soldiers for duty to the war on terrorism remains our first priority, we have in Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Free- developed several systems to increase our ability to edu- dom (OIF). cate and train both deploying units and individual aug- In addition to our capability to train warriors, the sup- mentees. In fiscal year (FY) 2009, the 21st TSC deployed port we provide to units deploying for the war on terrorism six units, redeployed 14, and currently has 33 units and 25 and contingency operations is top notch. Through the De- individual augmentees deployed in support of operations ployment Processing Center at Rhine Ordnance Barracks, in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. Setting the stage for suc- Germany, in FY 2008, we supported the deployment of cessful deployment, we have developed a training model 17,900 soldiers and 760 short tons of equipment. We pro- focusing on individual and collective competencies which vide robust fort-to-port and transload capabilities in sup- culminates in a unit-level certification exercise. Similarly, port of unit rotations to Kosovo, Joint Task Force East, OEF the 21st TSC has developed an individual augmentee and OIF. We provide sustainment stocks and monitor the training support package designed to quickly ready sol- distribution network to the U.S. Central Command area of diers to join already deployed units. In coordination with operations, including the new northern distribution net- the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command, in work to OEF. At the same time, the 21st TSC provides February the 21st TSC conducted a pilot program at reach-back maintenance capability to Army Central Com- Panzer Kaserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany, where 41 sol- mand as needed. With one of the highest operational tempos in the Army, MG Yves J. Fontaine currently serves as commanding general, European-based forces are constantly shifting between the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Army Europe combat zones and their garrisons, leaving rear detach- (USAREUR) and Seventh Army. Previously, he served as ments to shoulder the burdens of day-to-day garrison op- deputy chief of staff, G-4, USAREUR, and commanding gen- erations. One of the primary missions of the Sustainment eral, 1st Corps Support Command, XVIII Airborne Corps, Command is to relieve the rear detachments of their vehi- Fort Bragg, N.C., and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq. He cle and equipment maintenance requirements; this is done holds master’s degrees in advanced military studies from the through the left-behind equipment (LBE) program. The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and in busi- LBE program takes the maintenance burden from rear de- ness from Webster University. MAJ Grant Morris serves as tachments by inventorying and removing nondeploying a plans officer for the 21st Theater Sustainment Command. equipment from the unit’s property book, maintaining that He is a graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies equipment to the Army’s 10/20 standards, and storing the and has master’s degrees in logistics management and in mili- equipment until the unit returns. tary operational art and science. Since the inception of the LBE program in FY 2007, the 32 ARMY I June 2009 A truck loads a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter onto a barge. Barges are one of many methods used by the 21st TSC to transport equipment and supplies across the European theater. TSC has continually refined the pro- cess of equipment induction to stream- line equipment handover and account- ability. In the initial program, unit equipment was consolidated in unit motor pools and contractors were hired to maintain the equipment at seven different sites around Germany. Be- cause this initial method of maintain- ing LBE proved cumbersome and dif- ficult to manage, in FY 2008, USAR- EUR adopted the Army Materiel Command (AMC) model of consoli- dating equipment into two sites, thus reducing the need to oversee multiple storage sites. In FY 2009, we will fur- ther consolidate LBE under the mega- hub concept at the Theater Logistics Support Center-Europe (TLSC-E) in Kaiserslautern with a smaller, tracked vehicle repair facil- maintenance costs. Over the past two years we have ag- ity in Livorno, Italy. This new model maximizes our resi- gressively worked to close six of 10 operating sites, and by dent local-national workforce and reduces storage and FY 2010 the remaining sites will close. Soldiers from the 18th Military Police Brigade, 21st TSC, form a four-man stack outside a doorway as they attempt to clear a mock Iraqi village at the newly con- structed forward operating base on Panzer Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany. one Basnight yr T /SSG y Arm U.S. 34 ARMY I June 2009 /Jennifer King y Arm U.S. Transform the 21st TSC into an Expeditionary Force opening infrastructure to provide unity of command while Over the past two years, the 21st TSC has transformed a single logistics headquarters synchronizes and clarifies through a combination of organizational, cultural, physical support requirements across the services. and training conversions, enabling us to provide sustain- The initial test of our main command post COIC and for- ment in support of multiple operations over long distances ward deployed command post came in May 2008 when the in the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and U.S. Africa 21st TSC participated in Exercise Austere Challenge 2008, a Command (AFRICOM) areas of responsibility. We stream- EUCOM-directed exercise designed to train and certify a lined the staff processes and the commander’s decision cy- joint task force to conduct joint operations in response to a cle by implementing the combined operations and intelli- crisis affecting the EUCOM area of responsibility. During gence center (COIC) within our main command post. This the exercise, the 21st TSC successfully forward deployed a shift—which broke down traditional barriers to staff col- command post and sustained the land component in major laboration—along with the integration of several auto- combat operations while simultaneously maintaining EU- mated systems and strategic partners, has improved the COM-wide sustainment from our main command post in quality and timeliness of information available to 21st TSC Kaiserslautern. senior leaders. The Austere Challenge series of exercises allows the 21st To accompany the development of our COIC, we have TSC forward command post and COIC the ability to syn- also built a tailorable command post that can be deployed chronize sustainment by linking to a joint force land com- on short notice to synchronize sustainment. This capability ponent command (JFLCC), joint task force and other ser- provides the USAREUR commander with a forward logis- vice components through boards, bureaus, centers, cells tics command-and-control node anywhere in the EUCOM and working groups.
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