How Does US Military Logistics Work?

by John Konrad (gCaptain) Opposite to widespread perception, Maersk isn’t the world’s largest delivery firm, neither is Delta the world’s largest airline. Nonetheless, each firms have substantial transportation contracts with a corporation that could be a main participant: the Pentagon.

Many within the delivery trade could not absolutely grasp the huge scale of the US Army’s air and ocean logistics and frieght operations. The US Division of Protection stands because the world’s largest ship proprietor, the world’s largest employer, the foremost logistics group, and the topmost shopper of power.

This colossal entity boasts a workforce of almost 3 million, encompassing active-duty troops, civilian staff, US Service provider Mariners, and Nationwide Guard personnel. Serving in numerous areas globally on a rotational foundation, their operations necessitate intensive air and ocean army logistics assist.

The world’s best-funded army is international, so it wants a transportation community that exceeds that of reliable, well-known ocean delivery firms however few individuals perceive how army logistics professionals at organizations like Transcom, Army Sealift Command, Air Mobility Command, and MARAD transfer gear all over the world.

This video by Wendover Productions explains the way it all works.

*NOTE The video does get a couple of small particulars about prepositions ships incorrect. MPSRON One – the prepositioned fleet within the Mediterranean – was deactivated on account of funds cuts in 2012 and the US Marine Corps has its personal prepositioned ships (they’re those painted black), which they’re within the technique of deactivating, aside from the Navy.

The definition of the US Service provider Marine can be not correct however Wendover can’t be blamed for this contemplating even high Nationwide Safety assume tanks routinely conflate the US Service provider Marine, US Service provider Service, Strategic Sealift Officers, and Army Sealift Instructions’ CIVMARS.