ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Illinois -- During the past three years, the U.S. Army Sustainment Command and the U.S. Army Materiel Command have integrated installation logistics in AMC's Materiel Enterprise. Hence, these activities are now formally recognized as Logistics Readiness Centers supporting 77 Army and other-than-Army installations.
ASC, as AMC's operational arm, manages the LRCs through its Army Field Support Brigades.
With this transformation and additional capabilities, ASC can access the full might of the Materiel Enterprise to provide the Soldier with the right equipment, on time and in good condition, as well as supply premier support services both at home and in the field.
The following are highlights of some LRC personnel. Throughout the year, ASC Public Affairs will be providing more highlights:
Art Fortin is the chief of Plans and Operations and of Supply at Detroit Arsenal, Michigan's Logistics Readiness Center, 404th Army Field Support Brigade. He has served his 27 years with the government all at Detroit Arsenal. He has held his current position for the last seven years. Originally from the Boston, Massachusetts area, Fortin entered federal service as an equipment specialist in maintenance engineering. He describes Detroit Arsenal as small, very busy, whose mission is very complex. An examples of this includes modifying vehicles to make their weapons systems better and more forceful for Soldiers.
Brent Ross is the chief of the Maintenance Division at Fort Polk, Louisiana's Logistics Readiness Center, 406th Army Field Support Brigade. He's been in the maintenance field for 40 years and the last nine have been in his current position. He grew up 13 miles away from Fort Polk and has worked there since 1981. From 1973 to 1979 he served as a Soldier conducting maintenance. Fort Polk is where the Joint Readiness Training Center is located to train infantry brigade task forces. LRC-Polk provides fully mission capable prepositioned vehicles necessary to conduct this training. This saves the Army money since the training units don't have to bring their own vehicles. Ross said the ultimate mission is to ensure the rotation unit has the highest quality vehicles to train on.
Alan Scafe is the freight weight specialist-lead at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin's Logistics Readiness Center, 404th Army Field Support Brigade. Scafe has worked 38 years federal service -- nearly 25 years in the Navy and 13 years as a civilian employee. He's originally from Sparta, Wisconsin, which is located very close to Fort McCoy. Scafe's duties include arranging shipments of materiels ranging from 1-pound packages to a variety of supplies to tanks. His mode of transporting these items are train, ship, truck and airplane.
Cathy Bernhardt is an accountable officer for the Supply and Service Activity, Supply and Services Division at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin's Logistics Readiness Center, 404th Army Field Support Brigade. Bernhardt has worked at McCoy for 30 years as a federal civilian. The SSA warehouse she works at is responsible for issuing Class IX parts that are used by the U.S. Army Reserve and the installation. These include repair parts for vehicles and weapons. The SSA also serves as a regional turn-in for the Wisconsin and Minnesota National Guard, as well as for the installation.
Jarvis Carr is an accountable officer for the Ammunition Supply Point at Fort Bragg, North Carolina's Logistics Readiness Center, 406th Army Field Support Brigade. Carr has served in this position for 20 years. Prior to this he worked as an ammunition manager in Heidelberg, Germany, for six years. He is also an Army veteran of three years, attaining the rank of captain in the field artillery branch. Carr became a DA civilian by completing an internship at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, from 1984 to 1986. Servicing Soldiers with ammunition at Fort Bragg is unique, Carr said, because of the diversity of units -- infantry, artillery, and armor with the Regular Army, Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve, Special Operations Command and ROTC.
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