JOHN MACDONALD

JOHN MACDONALD

JOHN MACDONALD

@JOHNMACCW5

Apr 27

Continuing my Story. #SFOR10 Stabilization Force Mission, Bosnia-Herzgovenia #FortPolk, Louisiana #OperationIraqiFreedom (OIF) OIFI, and OIF II Early 2003 CW3(P) Troop Line and Maintenance Test Pilot Nomad Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment OH-58D MTP, MTFE Lets' eat this elephant one-piece-at-a-time. Let's first acknowledge that whoever is in the Mission Planning Cell(s), or on the Logistics Coordination Team(s) for any tactical unit, sitting/standing at/on a desk with a phone in each hand, and on the computer or in the meetings and eating donuts and drinking coffee or smoking cigarettes and keeping the lights on all night doing said coordination, is just as critical as any other forward facing, front line lethal entity. They coordinated for shipping vessel(s), defined the Port locations, reserved the transient spaces for aircraft parking/holding, scheduled the flatbed rail cars, the right number of them, the on and off loading locations, the commercial air reservations, the number of seats, the Customs clearance, transportation to and from each of these locations for Soldier movement, the required number of seats, the safety operations, equipment posturing .. Surface-scratching here. Thank you, Planners V/r, Executor I'm going to snapshot our way back to the Desert - we had a large railhead on Fort Polk. We loaded equipment by rail from Fort Polk to Beaumont, Texas and flew our aircraft to staging fields outside the Port of Beaumont. Vessels loaded fairly quickly, but long hours - time is money in that industry. Our unit moved via Alexandria International Airport, LA (AEX) on Commercial Air, through Shannon, Ireland, to Kuwait. I'm in the #Army and this is the third of four times I will have been to, Kuwait. One might say I'm even a resident, of Kuwait. But that's another story.

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