Logistics

DLA Pacific Operation Tomodachi

DLA Regional Commands

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The U.S. Defense Department has divided the world into six geographic unified combatant commands – Europe (EUCOM), Africa (AFRICOM), Central (CENTCOM – basically, the Middle East), North America (NORCOM), South …

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Meal, Ready-to-Eat Field Testing

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Six New processing technologies and the coming of ketchup and mustard

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In the final installment of our series on the Meal, Ready to Eat and its 30 years of history we look to the future to see what’s in store in …

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German Soldiers and U.S. Marines Exchange Rations

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Five Wondering what the other guys eat

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In part five of our series on the 30th anniversary of the MRE we come to one of the most intriguing aspects of this very American ration – how it …

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Meals, Ready-to-Eat

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Four MRE entrees – the favorites and the failures

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It turns out that the three previous installments in our series on the 30th anniversary of the “Meal, Ready To Eat” were not enough to get our arms around this …

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First Strike Ration

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Three Field-stripping, First Strike Rations, and the Humanitarian Daily Ration

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Thirty years of history, including employment in at least five conflicts, are behind the “Meal, Ready-to-Eat.” So far we’ve outlined a few of the many challenges that the Combat Feeding …

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Soldier Meal, Ready-to-Eat MRE Evaluation

Ready To Eat! 30 Years of the MRE Part 2 Part 2

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Keeping the MRE current and in-step with warfighter needs and preferences is a constant challenge for the relatively small Combat Feeding Directorate. Based in Natick, Mass., at the U.S. Army’s …

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Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs)

Ready To Eat! 30 Years of the MRE Part 1: A new kind of ration

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For the last three decades, and for at least as many generations of warfighters, the individual combat ration known as the “Meal, Ready-to-Eat” or MRE has been a staple of …

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Defense Logistics Information Service

DLA Business Services

In the half century since the creation of the Defense Logistics Agency (called the Defense Supply Agency from 1961-1977), a great many pre-existing Department of Defense (DoD) services and agencies …

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Operation Desert Shield

Gulf War 20th: Logistics Marvels Made the “Left Hook” Work

When the first paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division hit the ground in Saudi Arabia, the first thing they noticed was the heat, the unrelenting 120-degree heat. There was little …

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A tractor moves a quadcon container at Kin Red Port, Okinawa, Oct. 10, 2009. Quadcons are modular, lightweight, and durable containers used for storage and transportation of equipment and supplies during deployment and in garrison. The gear belongs to 12th Marine Regiment, which departed for Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, Oct. 11, on the high-speed vesssel Westpac Express to conduct an exercise called Fuji Combined Arms Operation.

Shipping Out ISO-based Deployment Systems

As they have with commercial logistics operations across the globe, commercial “shipping containers” have revolutionized military logistics. Today, nearly four decades after the International Standards Organization (ISO) brought size standards …

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