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Army announces new logistics branch

Staff report

Posted : Saturday Dec 15, 2007 8:10:11 EST

The Army is creating a new logistics branch in an effort to ensure all logistics officers are multi-skilled logisticians, officials announced Thursday.

The branch will be established Jan. 1, and it will be made up of all logistics officers – ordnance, quartermaster, transportation – in the rank of captain through colonel. It will replace the multifunctional logistician program, also known as Functional Area 90, and is designed to keep up with the Army as it modularizes the force. The new logistics branch will affect logistics officers in the active Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve.

Officers will transition into this new branch after completing the captains’ career course, and they will focus on getting experience in all types of logistics assignments. At the same time, they will alternate into assignments that are specific to their chosen area of expertise.

These officers also will have a new branch insignia that combines all the elements of basic logistics functions. The insignia contains a key to represent the quartermaster branch, a cannon representing ordnance, and a ship’s wheel to represent transportation. A star in the center represents the integration of all these functions. The insignia is available in clothing sales stores.

Army officials said the quartermaster, transportation and ordnance branches will not go away. More than 270,000 soldiers, or about one-third of the Army population, belong to these branches.

For more information on the new branch, visit http://www.cascom.army.mil.

Information also is available at https://forums.bcks.army.mil. This Web site is accessible through Army Knowledge Online.

SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 03:30, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

WEB SITE HIGHLIGHTS ARMY'S FUTURE PLANS (ARMY TIMES)

Web site highlights Army’s future plans

Staff report Posted : Thursday Dec 27, 2007 13:13:57 EST

Soldiers who want to see what the Army’s stationing plan looks like through 2013 can go to a new Web site called Grow the Army, which is also known by its shorter name “GTA.”

The site, launched Friday, days after Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dick Cody announced the plans in a Pentagon press conference.

The site illustrates troop movements and unit stationing changes with an interactive map, and a state-by-state listing of areas that will see a change.

Visitors can also see Cody’s Dec. 19 press conference and the briefing materials that were distributed at the event.

On the map, states are color-coded; users can click on them to see specific stationing changes.

Texas, for example, is scheduled to gain units at Fort Bliss and Fort Hood, owing both to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act and new stationing decisions. A click on Texas gives the visitor additional information.

Fort Bliss expects to gain more than 25,000 soldiers, the 1st Armored Division from Germany, three brigade combat teams, including one from Germany, and a fires brigade. It is marked on the map by green, dark blue and blue stars to represent the types of units they expect and whether it’s a GTA unit or another stationing decision.

Fort Hood is scheduled to gain slightly less than 6,000 soldiers, an air-defense-artillery brigade headquarters and a sustainment brigade.

Downloadable fact sheets also describe the changes for each state, as well as installations overseas.

Grow The Army Website

SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 02:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Army Announces Stationing Decisions

• News Releases
• Army Announces Stationing Decisions
• Dec 19, 2007

• The U.S. Army announced Dec. 19 unit stationing decisions to support the President's plan to grow the Army by 74,200 Soldiers across all three Army components. This growth includes the stationing of six new infantry brigade combat teams, eight support brigades in the active component, and associated growth in smaller combat support and combat service support units required to complement the U.S. Army's overall force-structure growth.

• The foundation for this stationing plan is implementation of Base Realignment and Closure-directed realignments. This plan relocates the 1st Armored Division from Germany to Fort Bliss Texas, and the 1st Infantry Division from Germany to Fort Riley, Kan., and Fort Knox, Ky., by September 2011. The plan extends brigade combat team capabilities in the European command for an additional two years through the activation of two brigade combat teams in Germany in 2008 and 2010. This supports near-term theater security needs, and reduces stress and turbulence on Soldiers and Families by allowing needed time for construction to support transformation, BRAC realignments, and Grow the Army stationing.

• The Army currently has 42 Active Component brigade combat teams. Complying with the Record of Decision for the Army's Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, the Army will grow six infantry brigade combat teams for a total of 48 by: retaining one infantry brigade combat team at Fort Carson, Colo., as the 43rd Brigade Combat Team (Fiscal Year 2008); activating the 44th Brigade Combat Team at Fort Bliss, Texas, in Fiscal Year 2009; converting one heavy brigade combat team to an infantry brigade combat team at Fort Stewart, Ga. in Fiscal Year 2010; and growing three infantry brigade combat teams in Fiscal Year 2011, one each at Fort Stewart, Ga.(46th BCT), Fort Carson, Colo. (47th BCT), and Fort Bliss, Texas (48th BCT). The two brigade combat teams stationed in Germany for two years will relocate in Fiscal Year 2012 and 2013 respectively. These units tentatively are to go to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

• The Army will also activate eight active component support brigades and restation two others as part of rebalancing the force at the following locations: In Fiscal Year 08, an air defense artillery brigade headquarters activates at Fort Hood, Texas, and an engineer brigade headquarters activates at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; in Fiscal Year 2009, a maneuver enhancement brigade activates at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo; in Fiscal Year 2010 a fires brigade activates at Fort Bliss, Texas, and a maneuver enhancement brigade will be restationed to Fort Richardson, Alaska, pending completion of supplemental environmental analysis in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act; in Fiscal Year 2011, an expeditionary sustainment command headquarters activates at Fort Lewis, Wash., and a sustainment brigade activates at Fort Hood, Texas; in Fiscal Year 2013, a military police brigade will be retained at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, a battlefield surveillance brigade activates at Fort Polk, La., and a maneuver enhancement brigade will be restationed to Fort Drum, N.Y.

• To support these six infantry brigade combat teams and eight support brigades, the Army simultaneously is announcing the stationing of approximately 30,000 Soldiers in combat support and combat service support units throughout the United States as well as various overseas locations. The details are contained in a report directed by the Fiscal Year 2007 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations' Act requiring the Secretary of Defense to submit a stationing plan to support Army Growth.

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• For more information please call Maj. Thomas McCuin, Office of Public Affairs, Media Relations Division, 703-614-2459.

SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 19:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Army Knowledge Online tests new wiki capability

• Army Knowledge Online tests new wiki capability

• Aug 19, 2008
• BY Sheldon Smith and Dana Hinesly

A new feature on the Army's enterprise portal will make collaboration significantly more effective. The Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online Project Office today officially launched a pilot program for wiki - a feature facilitating the perpetual, collective work of many authors within the AKO community.

Wiki is a collaborative web environment allowing AKO/DKO users on the unclassified portal to post information of interest to other users while capturing change history for posted topics. The site is similar to a blog in structure and logic, however -- unlike blogs -- the wiki will allow others to edit originally posted materials.

"With AKO/DKO wiki, users can post, track and capture edits, enabling them with the ability to assure the authenticity of their topical information," said Col. Earl Noble, AKO/DKO project manager.

AKO core users -- Army users with common access cards -- will have access during the evaluation period to a collaborative web environment featuring editable pages with versioning and access controls, the ability to link chains of documents together, document storage and sharing capabilities, the ability to capture change data, cross-linking on the fly, enhanced security and governance, and more.

"This represents the capabilities AKO/DKO offers in a secure environment that enable collaborative knowledge sharing to the Warfighter and support structures," said Noble.

The term wiki, which comes from the Hawaiian language, means "fast," and refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site. Wiki adds to the collaborative tools already present on AKO, and draws on the wealth of information held by its users.

"This is another example of AKO/DKO's commitment to provide users with relevant capabilities to meet tomorrow's information needs," said Noble.

"One of the challenges faced by AKO users is locating the right document. Wiki brings with it the capability to search document text, rather than just meta data," said Noble. "This further assures the user will be able to find the right document with the right information."

During limited user testing, the Clearspace software platform will be evaluated on the Army's unclassified portal. A similar solution, Intelepedia, will be tested on the smaller classified network.

• Source: ARMY.MIL/NEWS

SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 15:53, 23 August 2008 (UTC)