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An Airman operates a forklift

Nov. 29, 2022

325th MDSS: Supply and Demand

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Tyndall Air Force Base website — Patient care within the 325th Medical Clinic may seem as simple as administering a vaccine or filling a cavity, but the 325th Medical Support Squadron works diligently behind the scenes to ensure that Team Tyndall’s Airmen can receive treatments long before a patient arrives.

U.S. Marines with 6th Engineer Support Battalion Bulk Fuel Company B, 4th Marine Logistics Group conducting field training with the new Expeditionary Fuel Dispensing System, or EFDS. EFDS is a new program of record that reconfigures capabilities existent in legacy fuel systems, such as the Amphibious Assault Fuel System and the Tactical Airfield Fuel Dispensing System into smaller, more agile expedient capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ryan Schmid)

Nov. 16, 2022

Fueling Future Battlefields: Marine Corps Commands Come Together to Drive Force Modernization Efforts

Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Marine Corps Systems Command website — Marine Corps Systems Command’s Fuel and Water Team recently initiated efforts to develop the Expeditionary Fuel Dispensing System, which provides increased battlefield flexibility to Marines.

A soldier secures a chain attached to a military vehicle.

Oct. 25, 2022

The Surface Deployment and Distribution Command: Operating Within the Larger Sustainment Enterprise

Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the National Defense University Press website — The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command is the global intermodal surface connector. It exists to move, deploy, and sustain the Armed Forces to deliver readiness on time, on target, every time.

Oct. 12, 2022

Department of the Air Force wins 3 federal energy, water management awards

ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Air Force website — The Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program recognized three Department of the Air Force teams and multiple individuals with 2022 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards.

Senior military leaders cut the ribbon at the Navy’s new Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (CoE), located within the State of Virginia’s Center for Manufacturing Advancement on the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research’s campus in Danville, Virginia., Oct. 5.

Oct. 6, 2022

Navy Cuts the Ribbon on its New Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence; Announces New Regional Training Center in Danville, Va.

Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Navy website — The U.S. Navy celebrated the formal opening of its Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) within the State of Virginia’s Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA) on the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) campus in Danville, Virginia.

Aircraft assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing and 168th Wing sit in formation on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Dec. 18, 2020.

Sept. 26, 2022

Request for proposal released for Eielson Air Force Base Micro-Reactor Pilot Program

Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installations, and Environment website — The Department of the Air Force, in partnership with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, released a request for proposal for the Eielson Air Force Base Micro-Reactor Pilot Program today.

old equipment

Sept. 12, 2022

1st TSC removed millions worth of old equipment from books

FORT KNOX, Ky. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 1st Theater Sustainment Command website — Old, unserviceable, outdated, or broken equipment should be removed from property books and turned into the Defense Logistics Agency.

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, drive a tactical vehicle onto the USNS Seay during exercise Native Fury 22 at Yanbu Commercial Port, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Aug. 26, 2022. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enables the U.S. Marine Corps Central Command and U.S. Central Command to receive and employ forces and resources rapidly in the region through a growing network of western geographic access and staging points.

Sept. 8, 2022

Marine Officer Leads MPF Efforts

SAUDI ARABIA — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Marines website — In the small port city of Yanbu on the Red Sea coast of western Saudi Arabia, more than 600 vehicles and pieces of equipment were offloaded via a Maritime Prepositioning Force offload operation during exercise Native Fury 22. But how was Combat Logistics Regiment 1, the exercise's lead unit, able to acquire hundreds of thousands of pounds of equipment in order to meet mission requirements?

(From left to right) Chris Schuppe, general manager of engineering and technology at GE Additive, John Sneden, director of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Propulsion Directorate, Maj. Gen. Jeff King, commander of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, and Geoffrey Camp, director of Oklahoma’s Aerospace and Defense initiative, cut the ribbon at opening of the second Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling lab.

Aug. 25, 2022

OC-ALC Unveils DOD-first in Additive Manufacturing

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Tinker Air Force Base website — The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Propulsion Directorate recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Complex’s second Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling lab that hosts 3D metal printers.

FRCE employees examine forklift

Aug. 25, 2022

FRCE test drives autonomous parts-handling vehicles in warehouse

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Navy website — Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) employees recently attended a demonstration of autonomous material handling equipment. The facility is considering whether self-driving forklifts and parts carts could improve productivity and reduce downtown.