ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Illinois -- For nearly four 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 abroad.
The following are highlights of some LRC personnel. Throughout the year, ASC Public Affairs will be providing more highlights:
Stephanie Jeffery is the installation transportation officer, Logistics Readiness Center, Fort Irwin, California. She has held that position for the past 14 years and has been at Fort Irwin for 16 years. Jeffery began her career with the Department of Defense in 1981, starting out as a GS-1 clerk-typist where she processed government bills of lading for outbound movements at the nearby Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow. Today, Jeffery's main mission is to handle all transportation requirements for the 10 annual rotations of brigade combat teams that train at Fort Irwin, and to handle all transportation needs for reserve component units, individual Soldiers, and tenant units on the installation.
Bob Bishop is the director of the Logistics Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas. He has held this position for 12 years. Prior to this, Bishop was a contractor for four years following his retirement as an Army colonel. During his last four years as a Soldier, he was the director of the former Directorate of Logistics -- now LRC -- at Fort Hood. His branch was Quartermaster. While Bishop has been "all over the world" thanks to his contractor and military opportunities, he knows Fort Hood quite well with two Soldier assignments there. Bishop said what makes LRC-Hood unique compared to the other LRCs is servicing continuous mobilizing/demobilizing Reserve Component Soldiers, supporting units prepping to train at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, and a very high operations tempo that supports 25 brigades. "We only exist for one reason," he said. "That's for our Soldiers."
James Ramey is the food program manager under the Logistic Readiness Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Food Service-Quality Assurance Office falls under the LRC's Supply and Services Division. Ramey has been in his current position for six years. Before that, he was a food service contractor working as a theater food manager in Afghanistan, with frequent visits to Iraq. He is also a retired chief warrant officer three with nearly 21 years of service. His last tour as a Soldier was at Fort Bragg. His office provides oversight to installation food service contracts and the Subsistence Supply Management Office. This translates into supporting 14 dining facilities -- 10 military operated, four contracted -- feeding 3.4 million customers annually. "We really encourage interaction with the dining facility management and the customers," Ramey said. "That's a good way to get feedback from the customers and find out what they want to see on the menus."
Abdul Cole is a transportation motor specialist/contracting officer representative for Logistic Readiness Center's Transportation Motor Pool at Fort Bragg. He has held this position for the past four years. Cole is an Army retired sergeant major with a logistics background after 28 years of uniformed service. In fact, his last assignment in uniform was at Fort Bragg. Cole said this TMP provides support for all local transportation requirements at Fort Bragg, to include all of North Carolina and 15 in counties Virginia as military personnel from those areas come to train at the installation. The TMP is open 24/7, every day, and has about 1,200 vehicles in its fleet serving about 1,000 customers a month.
Dirk Davis is the rail operations supervisor for the Rail Operations Center and Line Haul Site Operations under the Transportation Division, Movements Branch for the Logistics Readiness Center at Fort Hood. He has been in this position since 2000 and has seen much during operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. "We deploy the units by rail to a training site like the National Training Center or to an overseas deployment through various ports across the country," Davis said. At Fort Hood there are 28 miles of railroad track with outbound shipments comprising of Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Humvees, containers, etc., he said. "We can do close to 200 rail cars in a 24-hour period. There's nobody else that can come close to us," Davis said.
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