You Can Lead, But Can You Plan? Time to Change the Way We Develop Junior Leaders - Modern War...

LTC (Join to see) - the death of the DISCOM and the birth of the FSC A-men brother! They are trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again with reflagging the Sustainment Brigades in 2015/2016, but it Is cosmetic unless we are going to put the rest of the structure right again. Two level maintenance needs to go. When they respread the peanut butter on the forcestructure toast they seemed to leave an evac level of maintenance without track maintainers....but people still want to evac tracked vehicles. To where? The port? Next stop Lima Ohio or Sierra Army Depot? An immature theater won't have an AMC forward repair capability in the theater opening when combat power building is still bumping uglies with sustainment and risk.

LTC (Join to see) - having inadequate software modeling tools is also a hell yeah from me. If you could model based on your existing property book and the Maneuver property book; use mean time to failure data based on a BOM explosion of your key systems; take what OPLOG Planner and the LEW dynasty gave us without having hours of pooka punching raw info in; and have that mesh with a Maneuver and fires COA, now you are cooking with Crisco.

You could articulate tangible risk. You could send the demands of your supported formations to your next higher log HQ to charge the pipeline in advance. You could really plan sustainment pushes in time and dynamically reshuffle a sync matrix as things change. You could turn that into tactical'orders to CSS formations and plan pushes in a meaningful way.

While I'm at it, plugging my pet rock of having a sensor based LOGSTAT reporting systemto taking infallible people and reports that move at half the speed of smell out of the picture.

LTC Jason Mackay I never saw one officer use LEW or OPLOG Planner. They all attempted to use their experience in Iraq or AfG which was FOBLOG at best. We don't have expeditionary logistics training in the school house.

LTC (Join to see) - I used them as planning tools, then bounced off LOGSTATS once we started the operation.

In FOBLOG world, I just used Logstats. I had my SPO shop trained to look for stale logstats. It usually indicated "that Guy" was on leave and a log f*ckup was about to happen. I was getting LOGSTATs by FOB (x50) and calculating pushes from those and what the FSC was able to push if they weren't busy patrolling battlespace.