Great site and info about Army Benefits at My Army Benefits Link http://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Home.html Everything from retirement to pay,healthcare, education, deployment support, family support, and even the new paternity service benefit.   Due to language in the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act of 2009, Paternity Leave is now authorized for up to 10 days in connection with the birth of a child. Go here for more information.  HOOAH!!  

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Although the media and DOD is rightly focused on Afghanistan, Iraq is now becoming the under the radar conflict, much like Afghanistan was for many years. We have a massive logistics undertaking going on right now with the movement of U.S. forces and equipment out of Iraq by the end of this summer. My unit participated in a ROC (rehearsal of concept) drill this past week in Baghdad where units planned for the movement of their equipment and forces out of Iraq. Many...read more

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Neat article from Bloomberg News about Afghan railway. It is their first rail line and is scheduled to be complete by the end of the calendar year. It is hard to explain how under-developed most of Afghanistan is. I was able to visit where the railway will start on the Uzbek border at the Afghanistan town of Hairiton in March. Will put some photos below. Interesting about potential Iranian line to Herat and that ethnic Uzbeks, Tajiks are not sympathetic...read more

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One thing we are currently working with several partners on is the transportation and coordination of MRAPs - mine resistant vehicles into Afghanistan for our NATO partners such as Georgia, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Jordan. Tom Vanden Brook, an excellent journalist who I met at the Army Worldwide Public Affairs conference last year, has an article out today about this on USA Today. He has been following the production, use, and shipment...read more

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Our next command director has been named. Story and Bio below. It will be a Navy Rear Admiral (lower half) which is equivalent to an Army Brigadier General. He will conduct a TOA (transfer of authority) with my Boss the first week of August. I will be leaving within that timeframe so also will need to transition with the new deputy chief of staff (TBD) "Navy Rear Adm. Thomas C. Traaen has been named the next commander of the U.S. Central Command...read more

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My unit, Central Command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center, recently received the prestigious Joint Meritorious Unit Award (JMUA). It is a "joint" award which is military speak for a unit with all branches of service: Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force. It is a unique experience to work with all services and I have been lucky enough to be in several joint units. The JMUA is a very prestigious award and it is awarded for certain periods of time....read more

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I wanted to re-post this great, article from the Army News Wire on my blog. It is a great, informative article highlighting the many challenges for military logisticians currently in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti as described by the Army Deputy Chief of Staff G4. Link Updated Highlights The Army is also flying supplies into Afghanistan via strategic airfields, Stevenson said. "The airfield in Kandahar has a little over 5,000 takeoffs and...read more

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YAYY!! I am finally able to access this site from my office computer! That makes this so much easier to update. Our base camp went through a bandwidth issue and the admin site for the blog was firewalled. It has now been corrected and I am able to access!! Attached is our command photo from Kuwait and our forward command photos from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. We have what we call LNO's (liaison officers) at those forward locations....read more

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We had what we call a DV visit over the past two days. DV being distinguished visitor. The visitors included three General Officers. Major General Dowd is my boss’s boss and the Director of Logistics for U.S. Central Command. Major General Chambers will be replacing Major General Dowd in about a month. The Central Command Director of Logistics or J4 is stationed at Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The forward headquarters for CENTCOM...read more

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We have an award ceremony for each service-member that departs our unit.  I got to say a few words about my Air Force Staff Sergeant that worked IT issues for our unit.  He always was working on some issue on the job and did a great deal with little supervision.  He bet someone that he would dance a jig at the ceremony and he did it!!   Me trying to make a joke during my speech.   This is my favorite photo of the tent photos - way too much size and time on the bandwidth to add more but...read more

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