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However, DOD and congressional concerns over duplication in military logistics soon led to further reorganizations. After a detailed reexamination of the Defense Transportation System, McNamara designated the Secretary of the Army as the single manager for military traffic, land transportation, and common-user ocean terminals on 19 November 1964.
Mustang is a military slang term used in the United States Armed Forces to refer to a commissioned officer who began their career as an enlisted service member. A mustang officer is not a temporary or brevet promotion but is a commissioned officer who receives more pay according to their rank of O1-E, O2-E, etc., but has no more command responsibilities than those of any commissioned officer ...
Major General Stephen E. Farmen was the 21st Commanding General of the U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), the Army Service Component Command to the U.S. Transportation Command and a Major Subordinate Command to U.S. Army Materiel Command. SDDC provides deployment and distribution capabilities to meet national ...
SFOD-D – Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta (U.S. Army counter-terrorism unit) SGM – Sergeant Major (U.S. Army E-9 – Sometimes referred to as Staff Sergeant Major) SGT – Sergeant (U.S. Army E-5) (U.S. Marines uses Sgt) SHORAD – Short Range Air Defense; SITREP – Situation Report; SJA – Staff Judge Advocate
SDDC assets include 10,000 containers and 1,350 railroad cars. Within the United States, the SDDC works with the Federal Highway Administration to designate the Strategic Highway Network. Joint Operational Support Airlift Center (JOSAC) specializes in the airlift of senior defense officials within the continental United States. JOSAC is located ...
Heidi Jo Hoyle-Cleotelis [1] is a lieutenant general in the United States Army who has served as the deputy chief of staff for logistics of the United States Army since 2023. She was the 22nd commanding general of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command , serving from 23 June 2020 to 20 July 2022.
Major General Kurt J. Ryan is a retired General Officer from the United States Army and was the 20th Commanding General of the United States Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command. Previously, he served as the 39th Chief of Ordnance for the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps and Commandant of the United States Army Ordnance School at Fort Lee ...
The North American A-36 (company designation NA-97, listed in some sources as "Apache" or "Invader", but generally called Mustang) is the ground-attack/dive bomber version of the North American P-51 Mustang, from which it could be distinguished by the presence of rectangular, slatted dive brakes above and below the wings.