Petroleum products are slippery fluids – in more ways than one – and it’s tough always to know if you’re getting what …
Logistics
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Power Up
Body Armor for Women…At Last
Driving Around…In Style
You thought Army uniforms were green? In Friday’s contract solicitations, the Army proves that’s not always the case. Its chauffeur uniforms, for example, must come in grey.
Chauffeur uniforms?
$776,000,000
For Want of An ROE…
Army Major Bryan Bowlsbey spent much of 2006 and 2007 in Iraq as a logistics officer with a unit from the Illinois Army National Guard unit. He became frustrated with the hidebound nature of a military force at war.
Bowlsbey spoke about his deployment in this recently-posted May interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort …
Dust Wars
Army Major Casey Holler served as a company commander in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2005-2006, and spent 2009-2010 in Afghanistan as a logistics planner at Forward Operating Base Salerno in southeastern Afghanistan.
Logistics – git thar fustest with the mostest, in the apocryphal words of Confederate Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest …
Pothole Repair
Why Building Stuff in Afghanistan Costs So Much
Here’s part of the reason we’re spending so much money in Afghanistan. Just take a look at some of the pieces of a solicitation seeking a Swiss-Army-Knife complex to house a Ministry of Interior Supply Point, Fire Department, and Uniformed Police District Headquarters, in Nimroz province in the southwestern corner of the …
82-86%
“Yesterday morning we had a large video conference with Afghanistan to discusses our ongoing efforts to develop a natural gas and power project in the north of Afghanistan, which we almost had to cancel because of lack of power in Washington, D.C.”
Magic Words Re-Open Pakistan Supply Routes: “We’re Sorry”
The good news is Pakistan has finally re-opened its overland supply routes to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The bad news is that it took eight months – and $2.1 billion – to get Islamabad to agree. Plus, a U.S. apology. The two …