2019 SOLE-DAU Field Award Winners (10 June 2019) COL Johnathon M. Kupka – 2019 SOLE-DAU Life Cycle Logistics Field Award ~ “Improving Army Logistics Readiness with Big Data Analytics” Lt Col Bryon E. McClain – 2019 SOLE-DAU Acquisition Program Management Field Award ~ “Understanding Unintended Consequences” Congratulations! For more information about SOLE’s awards program, contact SOLE HQ at solehq@erols.com
“Cipher’n” By Philip T. Frohne, CPL Does the thought of combining ‘Mean Time Between’ anything frighten you? Confused about how to perform basic logistics calculations? Loggie math skills get’n a little rusty? Fear not, because you are not alone. I, too, am mathematically challenged. Many school teachers told my parents that I should stick to the violin (I play French horn). My book on logistics math began as a desk drawer full of illegible sticky notes. So let’s calm those…
For a bit more than six months I was the logistician (C-4) for Provide Comfort, the Humanitarian and return home mission for the Kurds and Iraqi Shia driven from their homes in Northern Iraq in mid-1991 (by that POS Saddam). Here are some lessons worth remembering. American military logisticians start off well-equipped to handle HR Logistics. Why? Because they already practice (incessantly) to operate in large areas, in large numbers, in dangerous, no, deadly environments, in lousy weather and from swamps to mountain tops. They…
For me, laziness is always the mother of invention. Sometimes the simplest of solutions will solve complex engineering problems. Here is a short story about the manufacturing of toothpaste. More specifically, boxing the product for market. A consultant was hired to find a way to detect empty boxes that accidentally slip through the packaging assembly process. Find out what happened. http://cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.htm