The Voice of Sustainment in CONUS Provider Base 13th Sustainment Command Volume 10, Issue 2 (Expeditionary) Summer 2012 Sustainer Training Commander’s Corner Provider Base C OLONEL CONTENTS Knowles Y. Atchison p. 6 Soldier attends logistics training p. 4 Soldiers participate in ammo Teammates, inspection course The Sustainment Operations Center (SOC) is no longer a concept that some Brigade Commanders wanted to do and some did not. This past April FORSCOM Commander made the decision that every FORSCOM Installation that has a Sustainment will have a SOC. This decision is a huge victory for all Sustainers Army wide, it now allows us to train as we fight from every level of Sustainment ranging from the BSB Commanders, BDE S4s, Division G4s, Corps G4s, MSE Staffs, Sustainment BDEs, AFSBs and ESCs. In addition, it serves as an Agency. We all have worked hard at setting conditions to enable the rapid resetting of our Army and getting back to a contingency based force. This is a huge step forward in that endeavor. In this edition we will look at training from a standpoint of putting Soldiers back to work in Garrison that maintains p. 5 297th ICTC retrains on our core competencies as Sustainers and reduces contract cost to our Army. Leveraging Sustainment Operations CONUS sustainment basics (LSOC) is nothing more than matching training opportunities with support requirements that reduce unnecessary contract p. 12 36th SB hosts EFMB cost. The best example of this is when 4th SB moved the 4th CAB from Fort Hood to Fort Bliss as part of the BRAC p. 8 SOC provides ‘1-stop shop’ realignment. LSOC is also about relationships, not just between the ESCs and the SBs, but also between all Sustainment p. 14 157th QM Co takes post-wide providers (AMC, DLA and SDDC). We have come a long way in the last two years with building the team of teams and operations p. 10 we cannot all a reversal, our Army cannot afford it. Commander, this publication is a place to tell your story and one-way ‘Cost for caring’ to share best business practices, let’s maximize the power of media. Thank you for all you do everyday. p. 17 Wranglers confer on Safety, health issues p. 16 5-4-5 enhances Welcome LSOC’s newest communication between Soldiers, leaders Sustainment Brigade Commanders p. 18 Sustainers earn coveted belt buckle p. 20 CALL answers your call p. 22 Deployment, Supply Excellence Awards 13th ESC Commanding Officer (Provisional) Colonel Colonel Col. Knowles Y. Atchison Charles R. Hamilton 13th ESC CSM (Provisional) Douglas McArthur McBride, Jr. Command Sgt. Maj. Guitaud Leandre PROVIDER BASE is a quarterly magazine authorized for publication by the 13th ESC Public Affairs Office. The contents of PROVIDER 593rd Sustainment Brigade 101st Sustainment Brigade BASE are unofficial and are not to be considered the official views 13th ESC Chief of Public Affairs of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, including the Department Sgt. 1st Class Jason Kucera Fort Lewis, Wa. Fort Campbell, Ky. of Defense.PROVIDER BASE is a command information publica- tion in accordance with Army Regulation 360-1. Question regard- 13th ESC Editor/Designer ing pulication can be directed to Sgt. 1st Class Jason D. Kucera at Sgt. Stephanie Woodson [email protected]. DSN 288-6410. PAGE 2 PAGE 3 Soldiers participate in ammo inspectors course 297th ICTC retrains on sustainment basics By 1st Lt. Bryan P. Langley support, equipment concealment, and might be a time we have to move close By Pfc. Brian LaBombard 297th ICTC UPAR field sanitation. to the front lines and hide along with 13th ESC Public Affairs The 297th Inland Cargo Transfer Although in recent years units combat arms units,” Fruish continued. FORT HOOD, Texas - Ammunition Company, 180th Transportation have enjoyed established dining and In addition, Soldiers practiced specialists across Fort Hood had the Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, hygiene facilities while deployed, setting up a Mobile Kitchen Trailer. opportunity to participate in the Am- 13th Sustainment Command Sgt. Jason P. Fruish, of Seattle, Wash., In the event the 297th is deployed to a munition Inspectors Course hosted by (Expeditionary) went back to stressed the importance of focusing on new theater, the MKT would provide the 664th Ordnance Company, 180th fundamentals for its weekly training basic Soldier skills. “It’s good to go warm meals for the unit’s Soldiers. Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustain- on May 10th by camouflaging a M998 back to your roots so you don’t forget Spc. Diana M. Murphy, a cargo ment Brigade. The course began April Humvee and building a field kitchen. the skills you might need someday.” specialist, found the training not only 2 and will conclude May 11. As a force sustainment unit, the Among those skills is concealment practical, but interesting. The 10 Soldiers in the course were 297th ICTC has a broad array of from enemy air forces, which is not “It was fun to watch how they set it taught at the Fort Hood Ammunition tasks to perfect before any future typically a priority in a counter- up, going from a small, closed up box Supply Point by a mobile training deployment. In addition to normal insurgency campaign. to a full kitchen to serve people,” she team from the Defense Ammunition operations, its Mission Essential Task “We’re driving trucks and Kalmars said. Center in McAlester, Okla. List requires training in food service (container handling equipment). There “They kept a small class because Photo by Pfc. Brian LaBombard we have to keep down the number Staff Sgt. David Bennett assigned to 664th Ordnance Company, 180th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stokes assigned to B Company, Headquarters and Headquar- of people out here for the hands on ters Battalion, III Corps both ammunition specialists, replace a damaged rocket tube at the Ammunition portion of the class. The cardinal Supply Point. Both are members of the first Ammunition Inspectors Course held on Fort Hood. During the rule is ‘minimum people, minimum course, Soldiers learn how to safely inspect ammunition and explosives. The course began April 2 and will conclude May 11. exposure and minimum hazard,’” said Jerra Kemper, a DAC instructor since provides invaluable knowledge to Stokes was quickly able to identify 2006. ammunition specialists,” said Sgt. 1st deficiencies that would usually only be Kemper added, “This class was Class Greg Stokes, an ammunition found by senior QASAS civilians. funded by DAC. This is the first time specialist assigned to B Company, “We’re receiving the training so we the mobile training team has come out Headquarters and Headquarters can actually enforce safety standards to teach this particular class.” Battalion, III Corps. and save the Army money by using Soldiers participating in the course Stokes explained that the most our own assets already in place,” said will gain the knowledge required important thing he has learned from Berrios. The 664th Ord. Co. recently to safely inspect ammunition and the course is the ability to locate took over operations at the ASP with explosives. When the 664th assumed deficiencies that he may not have an estimated savings of $2.4 million full responsibility of operations at the noticed before. yearly. ASP in September of last year, the When Soldiers improperly handle As part of the course, “we are contracts of the civilian contractors ammunition, it must be “turned in conducting on the job training which expired and Soldiers replaced those and demilitarized,” said Kemper. This consists of area inspections and bunker employees, said Sgt. 1st Class Jorge course is invaluable to Soldiers and the inspections,” said Berrios. “We go Berrios, the senior ammunition Army because it helps keep Soldiers out to the ranges and do ammo safety inspector at the 664th Ord. Co. safer while cutting down on wasted inspections and we do arms room Berrios said that “this is a materials and extra costs, she said. inspections as well. We don’t check condensed version of the 18-month- QASAS civilians go through much the weapons (in the arms rooms); we long training that the Quality longer training than Soldiers do and check the ammunition that is stored Assurance Specialists (Ammunition when the ammunition inspection inside those arms rooms.” Surveillance) civilians receive.” There portion of the ammunition specialist “Since the military already has are still five general schedule civilians advanced individual training was noncommissioned officers in place, working at the ASP, three of which are removed years ago, Soldiers lost the the staff sergeants and sergeants 1st QASAS certified. ability to perform an important set of class are going to be the ammunition “This course, which is focused skills, said Stokes. inspectors” and they will enforce the around safety and waste prevention, After attending the course, Army’s standards, said Berrios. Photo by 1st Lt. Bryan P. Langley Soldiers of the 297th Inland Cargo Transfer Company, 180th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) demonstrate how to set up a Mobile Kitchen Trailer. The unit is rebuilding its basic skills in the wake of its return from deployment in 2011. PAGE 4 PAGE 5 same level of advanced operation from the sustainment you the confidence, the knowledge and the doctrinal base to operations side. know where you’re coming from and be able to reach out The TLPP Course is taught so that students will have and not be afraid of getting it done,” she said. a full comprehension of logistical operations at the corps As the TLPP Course moves forward, the instructors are level and above. Throughout the course students are hopeful that commanders will begin to see the potential that constantly tested on the “So what?” factor.