Depot employees assist with FMX in Fort Benning

By Mrs. Jennifer Bacchus (AMC)June 19, 2014

Depot employees assist with FMX in Fort Benning
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ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- Fifteen Anniston Army Depot employees deployed to Fort Benning, Ga., to assist TACOM Life Cycle Management Command with their Fleet Management Expansion program.

The augmentation team worked alongside TACOM maintenance personnel to reduce a backlog with the Heavy Track (M1 Abrams) maintenance operation at the Maneuver Center of Excellence.

On June 12, as the team completed their work, members were presented with certificates and coins from Jim Logan, the Fort Benning FMX director on behalf of the TACOM FMX program.

"I appreciate everything that took place here," said Logan in his remarks to the ANAD employees.

Logan detailed what the depot employees helped TACOM achieve, such as:

• 19 completed services on M1 Abrams tanks

• 210 unscheduled faults worked during the services

• Four full-up power packs repaired or returned to service

• 56 Direct Support Electrical Test System Line Replacement Units repaired at a cost avoidance to the Army of $2,719,056

The team lead, Mike Rogers, was praised by the TACOM FMX leaders for being very professional and working well with the TACOM services supervisors.

The ANAD employees were commended for being an "adaptive and flexible team."

According to the group's award justification, a maintenance backlog, which may have adversely affected training of Soldiers, was averted through ANAD's assistance.

"Their contributions had a direct and significant affect on FMX-Fort Benning's ability to return tanks to the fleet and increase availability of equipment for use in Programs of Instruction," reads the justification.