Logistics

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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Afghan villagers gather at a dirt road near MaxxPro Dash mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles belonging to U.S. Marines assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, at Garmsir District in the province of Helmand, Afghanistan, Feb. 17, 2010. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Joshua T. Greenfield

MRAP and M-ATV Logistics and Support Answering Unique Challenges

While not quite meeting the full criteria for classification as “unintended consequences,” the urgency and alacrity surrounding the acquisition and fielding of the U.S. military’s joint Mine Resistant Ambush Protected …

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