Medical Logistics - Army Logistics University - U.S. Army

At left, a SETAF Maintenance Division
Soldier instructs a group of Botswana
Defense Force soldiers on the proper
procedures for recovering a disabled vehicle
during the hands-on portion of the group’s
training. The training was provided by
a joint contact team that traveled
to Botswana.
Above, a Botswana Defense Force Soldier
receives instruction on equipment used when
preparing a disabled vehicle for removal.
(Photos by SFC Michael Johnson, SETAF
Maintenance Division)
ARMY LOGISTICIAN PROFESSIONAL BULLETIN OF UNITED STATES ARMY LOGISTICS
This was the first maintenance training for many of
the Botswanan soldiers, so the skills that the U.S. Soldiers
presented were very basic. However, the SETAF
team saw potential for more in-depth, hands-on, and
face-to-face training. The team found it interesting to
compare the way a foreign military handles its logistics
to the way U.S. units handle theirs and discovered that it
could learn from the students as well as teach them.
Unsure about what to expect when they arrived
in Botswana, the team was surprised by the wide
mixture of equipment the Botswanan mechanics
had to work on. They found the Botswanan soldiers,
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