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1919 "Trans-Continental Motor Truck" [1] The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy was a long distance convoy (described as a Motor Truck Trip with a "Truck Train" [1]) carried out by the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps that drove over 3,000 mi (4,800 km) on the historic Lincoln Highway from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California and then by ferry over to end in San Francisco.
It is one of relatively few books covering combat logistics in Afghanistan (compared to the number of books covering other types of combat operations). The Marine Corps Times called the book "a rare look into the world of the Marines whose job it was to ferry supplies to the fighting forces in Afghanistan by way of vehicle convoys".
The Soviet Army: Operations and Tactics: Image title: via Federation of American Scientists: Author: U.S. Army Field Manual 100-2-1, 16 July 1984: Software used: Hewlett Packard MFP: Conversion program: Adobe Acrobat 9.4 Paper Capture Plug-in: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) 792 x 612 pts (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.6
Born in Kansas and raised in Oklahoma, Richard Killblane graduated from Ponca City High School in 1973. [4] He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1973 and became an Intelligence Analyst in the 1st Special Forces Group on Okinawa, Japan and was cross-trained onto a team as a demolitions man for one mission before his unit was inactivated. [5]
Depending on their size or utility, the installations were called: camp, forward operating bases (FOBs), contingency operating bases (COBs), contingency operating sites (COSs), combat outposts (COPs), patrol base (PBs), logistic based (log bases), fire bases (FBs), convoy support centers (CSCs), logistic support areas (LSAs), and joint security ...
The 1976 edition of FM100-5 was the inaugural publication of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command. [6] [7] AirLand Battle was first promulgated in the 1982 version of FM 100-5, [8] and revised the FM 100-5 version of 1986. [9] [10] By 1993 the Army had seen off the Soviet threat and moved on. [11] [12]
U.S. Army convoy from Detroit to an "Atlantic Coast port" [13] 6-2-1918 U.S. Army School for Truck Drivers "just opened" [14] [15] c. 1918: Chicago-to-New York City convoy sets Army distance record [16] 11-11-1918 Germans sign Armistice (cease fire) agreement, ending WWI: 12-1-1918 During World War I 90,727 trucks produced for the Army and Navy ...
The first large convoy of the war was the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) convoy. On 18 October 1914, the Japanese battlecruiser Ibuki left the port of Wellington, New Zealand, with 10 troopships. They joined 28 Australian ships and the Australian light cruisers HMAS Sydney and Melbourne at Albany, Western Australia.