Not Your Father's AMC

Headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Va., U.S. Army Materiel Command has a presence in 49 states and 127 countries worldwide. Manning these organizations is a workforce of more than 67,000 dedicated military and civilian employees, many with highly developed specialties in weapons development, manufacturi...

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Main Author: Pillsbury, James H
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ARMY EQUIPMENT
ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND
ARMY PERSONNEL
INDUSTRIES
LOGISTICS
MANUFACTURING
MATERIEL
Military Forces and Organizations
MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS
MILITARY VEHICLES
REPRINTS
WEAPONS
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Summary:Headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Va., U.S. Army Materiel Command has a presence in 49 states and 127 countries worldwide. Manning these organizations is a workforce of more than 67,000 dedicated military and civilian employees, many with highly developed specialties in weapons development, manufacturing, and logistics. AMC develops, delivers, and sustains materiel to ensure a dominant joint force for the U.S. and our allies. In layman's terms, if a soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, communicates with it, or eats it, AMC provides it. Army Lt. Gen. James H. Pillsbury assumed the duties as AMC's deputy commanding general on Dec. 8, 2008. Retired Army colonel Jim Oman, director of the DAU Senior Service College Fellowship Program and former commander, Army Forces Central Command-Saudi Arabia, met with Pillsbury in July to talk about how transformation has affected AMC, and how the command is tackling the challenges associated with the massive reset efforts under way. The Army has aggressively reset and repaired more than 500,000 pieces of equipment in our industrial base over the last six years, a workload three times greater than during the Vietnam War. In 2009 alone, AMC reset 180,000 pieces of equipment, including more than 400 aircraft, 2,700 tracked vehicles, and 150,000 weapons. As Pillsbury likes to remind people, the transformed AMC is not your father's AMC. Published in Defense AT&L, p2-8 Nov-Dec 2010.