The Marines Test the LCAC Replacement: The Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC)

07/11/2014
2014-07-11 The Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) begins to rotate on the beach, July 9, at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows on Oahu, Hawaii during a Marine Corps Advanced Warfighting Experiment. The AWE is the culmination of a decade of progressive experimentation conducted by the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL)…

The Floating US Army at RIMPAC 2014

07/04/2014
2014-07-04 Logistic Support Vessel 2 – U.S. Army Vessel CW3 Harold A. Clinger, manned by a 163rd Transportation Detachment crew, got underway from its homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on July 2 to conduct the first of eight surface lifts between Kaneohe Bay and Kawaihae Harbor in support of…

Michael W. Wynne: “I Hate Logistics”

06/16/2014
2014-06-16 By Louis Kratz September 9, 2001 was a beautiful fall day at  Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as the newly confirmed Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics), Honorable Michael Wynne prepared to address the Department of Defense Program Manager Community at the Defense Acquisition University. Secretary Rumsfeld…

Captain Hall of the USS America Discusses the New 21st Century Assault Ship

06/13/2014
2014-06-13 The USS America is going to sea mid-July 2014. During a visit to the ship on June 12, 2014, Captain Hall, the CO of LHA-6, discussed the ship and its contribution. [caption id="attachment_66342" align="alignnone" width="207"] Leadership of LHA-6. Credit: Second Line of Defense[/caption] A key way to look at…