Six shop has your six covered

Courtesy Photo | Spc. Lorelei Canino (left), a Hayward, Calif., native, and an information technology specialist with the 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, and Warrant Officer Michelle Schweitzer, a native of Hicksville, Ohio, and the S6 officer in charge for the 749th CSSB, maintain a Combat Service Support Very Small Aperture Terminal system Aug. 15 at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. (Photo by 1st Lt. Sheila R. Babot)  

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, IRAQ

08.21.2011

Courtesy Story

4th Sustainment Brigade

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq – The logistics world is a diverse and dynamic environment with its own language and culture. At the battalion level, the Sustainment Automation Support Management Office, or Combat Service Support Automated Information Systems Interface, is known as the “6 Shop.”

On COB Adder, the S6 is the backbone for all logistics automation systems for more than 1,000 people throughout the 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command.

“The SASMO section is the busiest section I oversee,” said Warrant Officer 1 Michelle Schweitzer, a native of Hicksville, Ohio, and the S6 officer in charge for 749th CSSB. “It is made up of two personnel that support five units and a total of 44 pieces of automation equipment. The vast knowledge these two soldiers have helps to make this section and the logistics mission very successful.”

Within the SASMO are several information logistics systems, two in particular are known as Combat Service Support Very Small Aperture Terminal and Combat Service Support Automated Information Systems Interface, more commonly known as the VSAT and the CAISI.

The combination of the VSAT and CAISI increases soldier readiness by providing information-sensitive reports and information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and it has the ability to conduct tasks virtually. This greatly reduces the risk of being ambushed during a convoy to achieve the same task, and it eliminates the issue of hand-delivering data containing detailed logistics orders to other locations.

• Date Taken: 08.21.2011
• Date Posted: 08.21.2011 03:10
• Story ID: 75676
• Location: CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, IQ