Life-Cycle Management - Army Logistics University - U.S. Army

A truck from HHC, 18th Engineer Brigade, makes
its way through the Bulgarian town of Mokren.
buses, MILVAN (military-owned, demountable container)
and equipment line haul, mobile cell phones, copier
service, and hotel rooms. KBR contracted for labor to
set up the life support area, maintain the life support
area, run the dining facility, and clean the camp.
Bulgaria’s infrastructure adequately supported the
exercise and proved capable of supporting future U.S.
exercises. Sofia and Burgas airports were used without
problems, and a new highway that will reduce travel
time is under construction from Burgas to the Novo
Selo Training Area. The railhead in Zimnitsa was adequate
for this exercise, accommodating wheeled and
tracked vehicles. The Bezmer air base was used as a
maintenance point for repair of UH–60 Black Hawk
helicopters and has potential for future use.
Exercise Operations
The 7th Army Training Command, from Grafenwoehr,
Germany, brought deployable intelligence support
element instrumentation capable of instant,
after-action review playback and observer-controller
support to the exercise. These, along with radiooperated
targetry and sufficient class V (ammunition),
provided an outstanding training event for the 2–130
Infantry Battalion and other units in the task force.
The four lanes (convoy situational training exercise
[STX], live fire, military operations on urbanized terrain
STX, and multipurpose range) provided training
opportunities the battalion needed and were effective
in improving unit readiness. Novo Selo Training Area
could support Abrams tank and Bradley fighting
vehicle qualification and company-level combined
arms live fire exercises. It could support battalion
force-on-force scenarios in future exercises.
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The 37th Transportation Command was at the heart
of the logistics operation. Its Headquarters and Headquarters
Company (HHC) headed Task Force Log and
was instrumental in providing classes II (general supplies),
IIIP (packaged petroleum, oils, and lubricants),
IV (construction and barrier materials), and IX (repair
parts) for the exercise. Each unit attached to Task
Force Log played a vital role in the overall success of
the operation.
Support Operations
Class I (subsistence) and water. KBR provided
food and water. The 21st TSC provided a food-service
technician to oversee the dining facility operation and
ensure that the standards prescribed by Government
regulations were met.
All food was brought in from Kosovo, where Army
veterinarians were available to inspect food before it
was shipped on refrigerated trucks. Many products,
including eggs and yogurt, came from Denmark
because Bulgaria had only three approved subsistence
sources, two for water and one for bread. The Bulgarian
economy is largely agricultural, so fruits and
vegetables are very affordable. Most sell for $0.40 to
$0.80 per kilogram ($0.18 to $0.36 per pound). Fresh
Bulgarian produce could be exported easily into
Kosovo for veterinary inspection, which generated
savings for the Army in buying and shipping the produce
and ensured the quality of produce received.
Class II. HHC, 37th Transportation Command,
provided all units participating in the exercise with 30
days’ worth of general supplies. What could not be
acquired before the exercise was purchased at local
office supply stores, which allowed the unit to test the
local economy and local infrastructure.
Class IV. Lumber was purchased for the 7th Army
Training Command to build a training facility. Hundreds
of pounds of lumber and 15,000 sandbags went
into creating a training facility that provided first-class
training support to the 2–130 Infantry Battalion and
the 634th Forward Support Battalion, another Illinois
Army National Guard Unit.
Class VII (major end items). Class VII items,
including M997 ambulances, M149 water trailers, and
weapons racks, were borrowed from the 200th
Materiel Management Center in Kaiserslautern.
Class IIIP and class IX. HHC, 37th Transportation
Command, and its direct support maintenance support
team from the 5th Maintenance Company, 51st Maintenance
Battalion, 29th Support Group, provided all
necessary class IIIP and IX to support the 86 pieces of
equipment used for the exercise. Each unit brought initial
quantities of its authorized stockage list and prescribed
load list to maintain the fleet that it supported.
To replenish items used or to acquire additional items,
MARCH–APRIL 2005