The Dirt Logistician

21-09 BSB CDR Discussion

In episode nine of The Dirt Logistician, Lieutenant Colonel Stacy Moore (Goldminer 07, Senior Sustainment Trainer) discusses rotation 21-09 with Lieutenant Colonel Brent Irish, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

 

Key topics include:

• Sustainment architecture used by the brigade
• How the sustainment architecture shifted over time for the brigade
• Focus for training plans to hone in on lessons learned
• Shift in the sustainment rehearsal format used by the brigade

21-09 BSB CSM Discussion

In episode eight of The Dirt Logistician, Command Sergeant Major Krista Keune (Goldminer 40, BSB Senior NCO Trainer) discusses rotation 21-09 with Command Sergeant Major Johnny Blanshard, Command Sergeant Major of the 2nd Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

 

Key topics include:

• Training focus prior to the National Training Center
• Field trains command post integration
• Noncommissioned officer involvement
• Brigade support area defense

21-08.5 FSC CDR Discussion

In episode seven of The Dirt Logistician, Captain Joseph Tereniak (Tarantula 17, Light Infantry/Airborne Task Force Forward Support Company Trainer) discusses rotation 21-08.5 with Captain Vernon Long, Commander of the Forward Support Company, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma National Guard.

 

Key topics include:

• Developing innovative logistics solutions when challenged with personnel and capacity constraints
• Integrating and synchronizing logistics capabilities with the supported unit
• Lessons-learned and deliberate planning of the field trains command post composition
• Training focus areas for forward support companies in the National Guard

CASEVAC and MEDEVAC Employment Considerations, Series 1 of 3

In episode six of The Dirt Logistician, Sergeant First Class Linda Franco (Goldminer 8B, Ammunition Transfer Point Trainer) and Staff Sergeant Byron, Fuentes (Goldminer 10B, Mortuary Affairs Trainer) discuss casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) with Master Sergeant Christian Cuyno (Goldminer 24A, Senior Medical NCO Trainer) and Sergeant First Class Steven Ricks (Goldminer 24C, Evacuation Platoon Trainer).

Key topics of discussion:

• Definitions and differences between medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) and CASEVAC
• Less discussed methods of evacuation
• Command team responsibilities
• Vehicle and personnel requirements for CASEVAC
• Unit stand operating procedures and rehearsals/training

21-08 BSB SPO Discussion

In episode five of The Dirt Logistician, Major Jerod Farkas (Goldminer 05, BSB SPO Trainer) discusses rotation 21-08 with Major Sean Maily, the Support Operations Officer for 106th Brigade Support Battalion, 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi National Guard. 

Key topics include:

• Deploying and assembling
• Brigade collective training 
• Personnel management
• Field trains establishment
• CL IX management without shop stock
• Logistics synchronization and distribution

GM07‘s the National Training Center and Fort Irwin Experience

In episode four of The Dirt Logistician, Major Jerod Farkas (Goldminer 05, BSB SPO Trainer) interviews LTC William "Joe" Parker before he departs Fort Irwin to capture his insights after serving three years at the National Training Center as the Commander of the Regimental Support Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and as the Senior Sustainment Trainer, Operations Group, National Training Center. 

Key topics include:

• Being stationed at Fort Irwin
• Getting left of the rotation
• Brigade support battalion commander engagement during expeditionary - reception, staging, onward movement, and integration
• Brigade support battalion concurrent planning
• Field trains integration

E-RSOI Concept at the NTC

In episode three of The Dirt Logistician, Major Jerod Farkas (Goldminer 05, BSB SPO Trainer) discusses the expeditionary - reception, staging, onward movement, and integration (E-RSOI) concept with Major Adam Bolliger, the Support Operations Officer for 916th Support Brigade.

Key topics include:

• Changes to the way units flow into the NTC
• Torch and ADVON responsibilities and life support
• Completing E-RSOI tasks from TAAs
• Force flow considerations to receive combat equipment with logistics assets layered in for initial life support
• Early CL V draw with accelerated LFAST and calibration timelines
• Differing options of how to approach combat power build

FTCP and CTCP doctrine and employment considerations

In episode two of The Dirt Logistician, Major Jerod Farkas (Goldminer 05, BSB SPT Trainer) discusses FTCP and CTCP doctrine and employment considerations with LTC William “Joe” Parker, Goldminer 07, the NTC Senior Sustainment Trainer, and LTC Gabriel “Gabe” Pryor the G-4 of the 1st Armor Division and former commander of 47th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat, 1st Armor Division.

Key topics include:

• Differences between maneuver and sustainment doctrine when referring to FTCP and CTCP solutions
• The debate about who should OIC the FTCP and CTCP
• Divide in support concepts: support areas brigade and above, and trains battalion and below
• The 1st Armor Division approached this problem set with a division brigade trains standard

21-06 BSB SPO Discussion

In episode one of The Dirt Logistician, Major Jerod Farkas (Goldminer 05, BSB SPO Trainer) discusses rotation 21-06 with Major William "Will" Cunningham, the Support Operations Officer of the 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.

Key topics include:

• Execution of the new MATP concept
• Effective FTCP incorporation into the SPO section
• Exercising a split BSA concept and reorganization of the A/BSB
• LOGCOP management and distribution
• Running estimates and logistical mission tracking
• Sustainment integration training at home station
• SSA training, employment, and displacement
• Leveraging aviation assets to support the sustainment fight

Ask a Goldminer: The Maintenance Tech

Today on Ask a Goldminer, MAJ Jorge Aponte, Goldminer 05 spends a few minutes with a Brigade Maintenance Tech about his experience regenerating combat power at the National Training Center and some lessons that he learned.