Abbeville Agreement

, 26

Abrams’ Doctrine

, 160

Advanced Section (ADSEC)

, 42, 87

Advance headquarters (ADSOS)

, 42

Advise and Assist Brigades (AABs)

, 278

Afghan National Army (ANA)

, 223

Afloat preposition stocks

, 167–169

Air Defense Artillery

, 268

Air Force airlift control elements (ALCE)

, 157

Air Operations Center (AOC)

, 157

Airport of embarkation (APOE)

, 157

Airports of debarkation (APOD)

, 157, 219, 202, 220

Air Terminal Movement Control Team (ATMCT)

, 213, 256

Air transportation

, 155

Air Transport Command (ATC)

, 52

Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH)

, 210

Al Qaeda

, 220

Altair

, 196, 197

Alternate Supply Route (ASR)

, 257

American Comorant

, 196, 197

American Eagle

, 162

American military transportation

Great War

, 16–28

interwar reforms

, 15–16

Spanish–American War

, 11–15

American Railway Association

, 17

Area Transportation Movement Offices (ATMO)

ATMO I

, 165

ATMO II

, 165

ATMO III

, 165

Armored Division

, 214

Army and Aviation Missile Command (AMCOM)

, 242

Army Appropriations Act

, 1916, 17

Army aviation

, 167

Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC)

, 296

Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB)

, 275

Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN)

, 283

Army Forces (ARFOR)

, 194

Army Preposition Stocks (APS)

, 168, 249

Army Service Command (ASCOM)

, 44

Army Transport Service (ATS)

, 15, 27

Army watercraft

, 158–159

Arrival airfield control group (AACG)

, 157

Arrival/Departure Airfield Control Group (A/DACG)

, 176, 207, 220, 222, 313

Asia Pacific Theater, World War II

China Burma India Theater of Operation

, 50–56

Leyte

, 44–46

Luzon

, 46–48

military transportation before war

, 31–36

New Guinea Campaign

, 39–44

retrograde

, 49

Southwest Pacific Area

, 36–38

surrender

, 49

Australia Base Section (ABSEC)

, 47

Automated Manifest System (AMS)

, 208

Automation

, 169–171, 324

“Auto-Zone” concept

, 263

Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD)

, 119

Aviation Corps

, 324

Aviation intermediate maintenance (AVIM)

, 202

Baltimore–Washington International (BWI)

, 226

Barge Amphibious Resupply Cargo (BARC)

, 121

Basic Officer Leadership Course (BOLC)

, 320

“Block-Operators” training

, 113

Brigade combat team (BCT)

, 224

Brigade Special Troops Battalion (BSTB)

, 287

Brigade support battalions (BSBs)

, 225

Camp Able Sentry (CAS)

, 214

CENTCOM Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (CDDOC)

, 225–226

CENTCOM Materiel Retrograde Element (CMRE)

, 243

Central Receiving and Shipping Point (CRSP)

, 322

Chief of Transportation

, 169

Chief regulating officer (CREGO)

, 43

China Burma India Theater of Operation

, 50–56

Chinese Communist Army (CCA)

, 110

Cigarette Camps

, 93

Civic Crusade

, 171

Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF)

, 178, 252

Civil War

, 5, 10, 24

Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC)

, 250, 254

Cold War

, 316

Aerial Tramway

, 122–123

armistice

, 116

Army watercraft

, 120–122

Berlin airlift

, 99–101

COMZ, Europe

, 101–105

DeLong Pier

, 122–123

DEW line

, 122

Europe

, 155, 316

Korean War

, 106–107

Maneuver Campaign

, 1950, 107–112

origins

, 99

Pentomic Division

, 105–106

retrograde

, 116–118

stalemate operations

, 112–115

TC aviation

, 118–120

technological development

, 118

Combat sustainment support battalions (CSSBs)

, 225

Combined Arms Route Clearance Operations (CARCO)

, 244

Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)

, 208, 224, 281, 318

Combined Forces Air Component Command (CFACC)

, 219

Combined Joint Task Force-180 (CJTF-180)

, 221

Combined Operations Service Command (COSC)

, 40

Combined Task Force 48 (CTF-48)

, 289

Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP)

, 240

Commercial railroad companies

, 32

Common User Land Transportation (CULT)

, 262, 317

Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM)

, 242

Communication Zone (COMZ)

, 4, 22, 33, 57

Consequences of Haiti

, 296–298

Containers express (CONEX)

, 8

Contingency Response Group

, 219

Corps Support Battalion (CSB)

, 220

Corps Support Command (COSCOM)

, 162, 165, 185, 195, 248

headquarters

, 202

mission essential tasks

, 201

Defense Depot Region East (DDRE)

, 209

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)

, 232, 239, 303

Defense Transportation Tracking System (DTTS)

, 171

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

, 116

Department of the Army Movement Management Systems (DAMMS)

, 170

Department of the Army Movement Management Systems-Redesign (DAMMS-R)

, 170

Deployment/Redeployment Control Cell (DRCC)

, 294

Desert Shield/Desert Storm

, 177–192, 239

Dingidads

, 173

Director General of Transportation (DGT)

, 21

Distribution Deployment Support Team (DDST)

, 282

Division Support Command (DISCOM)

, 161

Doppler Effect

, 170

DUKWs

, 86

Eagle Express

, 213

Eastern Inspection Branch (EIB)

, 201

Eighth US Army (EUSA)

, 164

Elaborate Maze

, 172

Embarkation Service

, 18

Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercises (EDRE)

, 157

Energy formed projectile (EFP)

, 268

Engineer Special Brigades (ESBs)

, 34

European Theater of Operations (ETO)

, 57–95, 84–93

Expeditionary Railway Center

, 238

Explosive Ordnance Demolition (EOD)

, 9

Express Cargo Service

, 44

Field Artillery

, 268

Foreign Excess Personal Property (FEPP)

, 242

Foreign Excess Real Property (FERP)

, 242

Forward Area Armament and Refuel Points (FAARPs)

, 176, 202, 261–262

Forward logistical element (FLE)

, 220

French rail lines

, 22

Functional vs. multifunctional logistics

, 319–323

General Dynamics Mission System (GDMS)

, 231

Global Positioning Satellite

, 256

Global positioning system (GPS)

, 171

G-3 Plans

, 160

Heavy Equipment Transports (HETs)

, 159, 210

Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT)

, 159

High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)

, 199, 200, 264

Hurricane Maria

, 306–309

Hurricane Matthew

, 304–306

Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS)

, 288

Improvised Explosive Device (IED)

, 36, 227

Inland Petroleum Distribution System (IPDS)

, 254

Intermediate Section (INTERSEC)

, 42

Intermediate staging base (ISB)

, 200, 218, 300

Internal combustion engine

, 6

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)

, 221, 275

In-transit visibility

, 221

Intrinsic Action

, 249–251

Iranian Hostage Crisis

, 167

Iraqi Railroad (IRR)

, 261

Iraqi Truck Company (ITC)

, 274

Iraqi Trucking Network (ITN)

, 274

Jingle Air

, 228

Joint Airlift Control (JALCO)

, 110

Joint Contracting Command Iraq/Afghanistan (JCCIA)

, 274

Joint Development System (JDS)

, 156

Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSVs)

, 252

Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO)

, 269

Joint Logistics Command (JLC)

, 222

Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS)

, 195, 251, 281, 291

Joint Movement Center (JMC)

, 201, 206, 219, 248

Joint Movement Control Battalion (JMCB)

, 243

Joint Operating, Planning and Execution System (JOPES)

, 156, 172, 245, 283

Joint Operations Planning System (JOPS)

, 156, 160

Joint Task Force

, 199, 206

Joint Task Force-Port Opening (JTF-PO)

, 237

Korean Communication Zone (KCOMZ)

, 114

Korean War

, 124, 166, 316

Kosovo Liberation Army

, 214

Kurds

, 247

La Comandancia

, 175

Landing Craft Mechanized-3 (LCM-3)

, 41

Landing Craft, Tank (LCT)

, 67

Landing Craft Utilities (LCUs)

, 120, 159, 284

Landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP)

, 41

Landing ship dock (LSD)

, 41

Landing ship personnel (LSP)

, 41

Landing Ship, Tank (LST)

, 41, 67

Laundry-Shower-Vitals

, 205

LCU-2000

, 159

Leapfrogging

, 66, 247, 259

Legacy

, 9–10

Leyte

, 44–46

Liberty Truck

, 24

Light Armored Infantry (LAI)

, 173

Light Armored Vehicles (LAV)

, 173

Lighter Air Cushion Vehicle (LACV)-30

, 158

Lighter, Amphibious Resupply Cargo (LARC)

, 7

Lines of communication

, 21, 37

Load Handling Systems (LHS)

, 230

Logistical Support Area (LSA)

, 290

Logistics Application of Automated Marking and Reading Symbols (LOGMARS)

, 170

Logistics branches, US army

, 9–10

Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP)

, 166, 207, 254, 275

Logistics operation

, 3–5, 5

Logistics over the shore (LOTS)

, 104, 313

Logistic Support Vessels (LSV)

, 158

Logistic Task Force (LTF)

, 220

Low Cost, Low Altitude (LCLA)

, 228

Luzon

, 46–48

Luzon Base Section (LUBSEC)

, 47

Main Supply Route (MSR)

, 183, 257, 261

Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF)

, 305

Marine Air Ground Task Force II Deployment Support System II (MDSS II)

, 207

Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF)

, 194

Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)

, 195, 218

Maritime Prepositioning Squadrons (MPS)

MPS-1

, 168

MPS-2

, 168

MPS-3

, 168

Maritime Sealift Command

, 4, 168, 169

M-1117 Armored Support Vehicle

, 273

Materiel handling equipment (MHE)

, 251

Materiel Redistribution Teams (MRTs)

, 243

Maximum on the ground (MOG)

, 289

McKinley, William

, 14

Meals-ready-to-eat (MREs)

, 291

Military Airlift Command (MAC)

, 155

Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU)

, 179

Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW)

Kosovo

, 214–216

Operation Joint Endeavor

, 209–214

Operation Restore Hope

, 194–200

Operation Uphold Democracy

, 200–208

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

, 208–209

Military rail

, 10

Military Region (MR) I

, 165

Military Sealift Command (MSC)

, 155

Military Standard Requisition and Issue Procedures (MILSTRIP)

, 209

Military Standard Transportation and Movement Procedures (MILSTAMP)

, 209

Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service (MTMTS)

, 99

Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC)

, 194, 281

Military transportation

communication

, 2–3

Explosive Ordnance Demolition (EOD)

, 9

legacy vs. function

, 9–10

logistics branches, US army

, 9–10

technology

, 5–8

US Armed Forces

, 1

war and logistics operations levels

, 3–5

Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP)

, 273

Mobile Container Assistance Teams (MCATs)

, 242

Mobile Tracking System (MTS)

, 236, 256

Monrovian Medical Units (MMU)

, 299

Monster Garage

, 265

Motor Transport Branch

, 33

Motor Transport Corps

, 25, 27

Motor Transport Service (MTS)

, 49

Motortruck companies

, 24

Mujahidin

, 220

Multi-National Corps-Iraq

, 265

National Afghan Trucking (NAT) Contract

, 243

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB)

, 196

Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS)

, 20

Navigation System with Timing and Ranging (NAVSTAR)

, 171

New army

, 155–192

New Guinea Base Section (NUBSEC)

, 47

New Guinea Campaign

, 39–44

Nimrod Dancer

, 173

North Africa Theater of Operation

, 58–66

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

, 155

Northern Distribution Network (NDN)

, 233–234, 240

Northern Offshore Discharge Exercise (NODEX)

, 123, 124

North Vietnamese Army

, 155

Office of the Chief of Transportation (OCOT)

, 34

Offshore Discharge of Container Ship Exercise II (OSDOCII)

, 158

Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm

, 177–191

Operation Drumbeat

, 242–245

Operation Enduring Freedom

CDDOC

, 225–226

distribution

, 231–233

expansion

, 226–231

Expeditionary Railway Center

, 238

modularity

, 223–225

Northern Distribution Network (NDN)

, 233–234

Operation Drumbeat

, 242–245

retrograde

, 238–242

surge

, 234–238

Operation Iraqi Freedom

, 217, 312

deployment

, 251–257

ground offensive

, 257–260

Intrinsic Action

, 249–251

modularity

, 270–272

Operation Scatter

, 248–249

Operations Plan (OPLAN) 1003V

, 248–249

retrograde

, 274–278

surge

, 272–274

sustainment matures

, 260–269

Operation Joint Endeavor

, 209–214

Operation Just Cause

, 171–177

Operation Restore Hope

, 194–200

Operation Scatter

, 248–249

Operations Plan (OPLAN) 1003V

, 248–249

Operation Unified Response

, 282–296

Operation United Assistance

, 298–304

Operation Uphold Democracy

, 200–208

Operation Urgent Fury

, 160–163

Ordnance Corps

, 9, 10

Pakistan Ground Line of Communication (PakGLOC)

, 226, 233, 244

Palletized Load Handling Systems (PLS)

, 211, 220, 230, 250

Pearl Harbor

, 36

Philippine Base Section (PHIBSEC)

, 48

Pollux

, 196, 197

Portable bar code reader (PBCR)

, 170

Port of Debarkation (POD)

, 3

Port of Embarkation (POE)

, 3

Post-Vietnam Army

, 160, 224

Prepositioning of Materiel Configured in Unit Sets (POMCUS)

, 155

Program Executive Office for Tactical Wheeled Vehicles (PEO-TWV)

, 199

Provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs)

, 223

Public Warehousing Company (PWC)

, 255

Quartermaster Corps

, 9, 10, 24, 32, 33, 320

Quartermaster truck regiments

, 33

Radio frequency identification (RFID)

, 208–209, 214

Railway Transportation Corps

, 22

Railway Transportation Officer (RTO)

, 23–24

Rapid Deployment Force (RDF)

, 155

Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF)

, 157

Rapid port opening

consequences of Haiti

, 296–298

Hurricane Maria

, 306–309

Hurricane Matthew

, 304–306

Operation Unified Response

, 282–296

Operation United Assistance

, 298–304

Rapid Port Opening Elements (RPOE)

, 282, 285, 290, 305, 313

Reception, Staging and Onward movement (RSO)

, 4, 313

Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration (RSO&I)

, 4

Red Ball Express

, 91

Redeployment, Europe

, 93–94

Redistribution Property Accountability Team (RPAT)

, 240

Reorganization Objective Army Division (ROAD)

, 106

Republic of Korea Army (ROKA)

, 117

Republic of Korean (ROK) Army

, 107

Retrograde

, 49, 93–94

Return of Forces to Germany (REFORGER)

, 155

Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit (ROWPU)

, 181, 205, 254

Rotary-wing aircraft

, 119

Rough Terrain Cargo Handler (RTCH)

, 162, 196

Royal Australian Navy and Air Force

, 36

Seaport Operations Company (SOC)

, 291

Ship Priority and Destination Board (SPDB)

, 185

Sicily

, 66–72

Skunk Werks

, 265

Software Development Center-Lee (SDCL)

, 170

Southern France

, 79–84

Southwest Pacific Area

, 36–38

Spanish–American War

, 4, 11–15

Special Army Observer Group (SPOBS)

, 57

Special Troops Battalion (STB)

, 225, 271

Standard Army Retail Supply System (SARSS)

, 242

Steam-powered river boats

, 6

Strategic Movement Center (SMC)

, 248

Strategic transportation

, 4

Subsistence Prime Vendor (SPV)

, 231

Subsistence Total Ordering and Receipt Electronic System (STORES)

, 232

Sunnis

, 247

Supply over the beach (SOB)

, 104

Supply Support Activity (SSA)

, 263

Supply Unit Northeastern Command (SUNEC)

, 122

Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC)

, 15, 223, 239, 269, 281, 313

Surrender

, 49

Sustainment brigades (SBs)

, 225

Sustainment operations

, 5

Table of distribution and allowances (TDA)

, 164

Tables of organization and equipment (TOE)

, 164

Tactical Assembly Area (TAA)

, 211

Taliban

, 220, 227, 230

Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM)

, 242

Task Force Support Command (JTFSC)

, 195

Technology

, 5–8

Temporary truck units

, 113

Terminal Supervisory Team (TST)

, 294

Theater Army Area Command (TAACOM)

, 210

Theater Army Control Agency (TAMCA)

, 166

Theater Permanent Equipment (TPE)

, 226

Theater Support Command (TSC)

, 247

Theater Support Vessel (TSV)-X1

, 252

Time Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD)

, 171, 174, 181, 195, 249

Total Army Allocation

, 238

Total Army Analysis (TAA)

, 325

Traffic Control Branch

, 33

Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)

, 167, 224, 296

Transportation Battalion

, 249

Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)

, 248

Transportation Coordinators Automated Command and Control Information System (TC-ACCIS)

, 170

Transportation Corps

, 9, 10

Transportation Corps Regiment

, 169

Transportation Major Port (TMP)

, 122

Transportation Military Railway Service (TMRS)

, 108

Transportation Movement Control Agency (TMCA)

, 165

Transportation movement requests (TMR)

, 303

Transportation Service

, 22, 23, 33, 91

Transportation Terminal Group, Europe (TTGE)

, 156

Transportation Theater Opening Element (TTOE)

, 225, 237, 271, 281

Transport Movement Control (TMC)

, 110

“Trigger pullers,” 14

“Truck Bank.”

, 114

United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)

, 210

United Nations Somalia (UNISOM)

, 194

United States Atlantic Command (USLANTCOM)

, 200

United States Railway Administration (USRA)

, 17–18

United Task Force (UNITAF)

, 194

Unit Movement Officers (UMOs)

, 207

Unmanned aerial drones

, 324

US Armed Forces

, 155, 312

US Army Air Corps

, 36

US Army Aviation Logistics School (USAALS)

, 167

US Army Europe (USAREUR)

, 155, 170

US Army Forces, British Isles (USAFBI)

, 58

US Army Forces – Far East (USAFFE)

, 36–37

US Army Services of Supply (USASOS)

, 37

US Army South (USARSO)

, 173

US Army Transportation Command Europe (USATCE)

, 165

US Central Air Force (CENTAF)

, 248

US Central Command (CENTCOM)

, 177, 218, 219

US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A)

, 239

US Forces Command (FORSCOM)

, 177, 313

US Marine Corps

, 41

US Navy to the Army Quartermaster Department

, 10

US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)

, 172, 283

US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

, 163–164

US Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)

, 163, 178, 285

V Corps

, 252, 259, 279

Vietnam

, 155, 162, 247, 314

advisor phase

, 126–127

convoy security

, 145–149

expediting sea cargo

, 143–144

Government Operational Experimental Research (GOER)

, 142–143

JLOTS

, 149–150

LAPES

, 149–150

lesson

, 152–153

onward movement

, 133–136

reception

, 133–136

retrograde

, 151–152

Riverine

, 149–150

second increment

, 137–142

strategic deployment

, 131–133

strategic transportation

, 127–131

sustainment

, 136–137

third buildup

, 144–145

Water Transportation Branch

, 33

Wheeled vehicle fleet

, 159–160

World Food Program (WFP)

, 294

World War I

, 20, 160, 316

World War II

, 8, 160, 312, 324

World Wide Command and Control System (WWMCS)

, 195

Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS)

, 171

XVIII Airborne Corps

, 174, 175, 179, 190, 287, 295