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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.
Gavin A. Lawrence (born c. 1973) is a United States Army major general who served as the commanding general of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command. [2] He now serves as the deputy chief of staff for logistics and operations of the United States Army Materiel Command .
John Reiley Guthrie (20 December 1921 – 25 May 2009) was a United States Army four-star general who served as commanding general, United States Army Development and Research Command (DARCOM) from 1977 to 1981. In the 1980s, DARCOM was renamed United States Army Materiel Command.
The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) is the Army Service Component Command of the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) and is a major subordinate command to Army Materiel Command (AMC). [1] This relationship links USTRANSCOM's Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise and AMC's Materiel Enterprise.
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Besson was the first Commander of the Army Materiel Command, formed in 1962 during a major army reorganization. During his command, the mammoth logistical organization, with an annual budget exceeding $14 billion and an inventory of $21 billion, employed more than 160,000 civilian personnel, in addition to its military complement of 14,000.
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The brigade traces its history back to the activation of the Combat Equipment Group - Southwest Asia, in October 1997. The command was formed as a result of the Chief of Staff's decision to expand the United States Army Materiel Command's responsibility for war reserve stocks to include the Persian Gulf region.