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Established on 1 January 2008, all Active, Reserve, and National Guard Ordnance, Quartermaster and Transportation Corps officers who had completed the Logistics Captains Career Course (LOG C3) or earlier versions of an advanced logistics officers course were transferred to the new branch. This move changed the Functional Area 90 ...
Megacorpstate is a form of market structure that designs new strategies to systematize the cartel power in the world. [1] This particular market framework consists of oligopolistic interdependent nations-states and multinational corporations, which have established alliance to own majority of the market power.
Megacorporation, mega-corporation, or megacorp, a term originally coined by Alfred Eichner in his book The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics [1] but popularized by William Gibson, [2] [3] derives from the combination of the prefix mega-with the word corporation. It has become widespread in cyberpunk literature.
AMC was established on 8 May 1962 and was activated on 1 August of that year as a major field command of the U.S. Army. Lieutenant General Frank S. Besson, Jr., who directed the implementation of the Department of Army study that recommended creation of a "materiel development and logistics command", served as its first commander.
Unlike business logistics, the objective of military logistics is not cost effectiveness of the supply chain, but maximum sustained combat effectiveness. [56] At the tactical level, effectiveness is the overriding consideration, whereas at the strategic level efficiency is the dominant concern.
"Combat service support" as a classification was replaced by "sustainment" with the publication of FM 3–0, Operations in February 2008. [2] In the US Army Sustainment is defined as "the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion".
The logistics combat element (LCE), organized into battalions, regiments, and groups, has its own headquarters element for command and control (management and planning for manpower, intelligence, operations and training, and logistics functions) of its subordinate units and contains the majority of the combat service support units for the MAGTF ...
The 4th Supply Battalion is a battalion of the United States Marine Corps Reserve that specializes in distributing and warehousing military goods and equipment. Headquartered in Newport News , Virginia, they fall under the command of the 4th Marine Logistics Group and Marine Forces Reserve .