US works with Jordan Armed Forces

Photo By Sgt. Christopher Bigelow | Col. Jon Beal, the Support, Operations and Plans Officer in Charge with the 1st Theater Sustainment Command, gives a block of instruction on the principles of sustainment used by the 1st Theater Sustainment Command March 9, 2017, at the Joint Training Center in Amman, Jordan. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Christopher Bigelow)  

AMMAN, JORDAN

03.09.2017

Story by Sgt. Christopher Bigelow 

316th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary)

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – 1st Theater Sustainment Command (TSC) with the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) Logistics Mobile Training Team (MTT), met with senior Jordan Armed Forces leaders March 6, 2017, at the Joint Training Center, Jordan for a week-long course aimed at strengthening our military-to-military partnership through logistics training. Comprised of senior logisticians from the 1st Theater Sustainment Command (TSC), an active duty unit from Fort Bragg, N.C., as well as the 316th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), a U.S. Army Reserve unit from Coraopolis, PA., the MTT was assembled to provide three separate phases of logistics training to the JAF.
The goal of the MTT is to build an understanding as to how the U.S. Army provides the essential supplies, personnel, and equipment required to sustain the U.S. Army Central Command area of operations.
"Whenever you work with another country it's important to understand how they perform their operations so that we can plan accordingly and work with them more efficiently. This will be a great step to our interoperability and team building with the JAF," said Lt. Col. Timothy Reed, the Theater Security Cooperation Program Chief with the 1st TSC.
Phase 1, the executive phase of the training, was developed in a coordinated effort between JAF and U.S. Army logisticians to build a shared understanding of U.S. Army sustainment operations among the JAF logistics community and senior leaders.
"This training was developed to enhance the capacity of the Jordan Armed Forces and assist in the development of their capabilities in the region. The executive stage of the training is where we go over our principles, or the wave tops, of what we are trying to explain to the JAF leadership. It is how we showcase our logistics principles to the JAF soldiers,” said Reed.
Phase 2 of the logistics training is scheduled for July. This will be a classroom environment where up to 40 JAF staff planners chosen by their senior leaders who completed the Phase 1 course receive two weeks of direct instruction on the principles of Army logistics. “We were invited by the JAF to do this training," said Reed. "At this time, we are learning from them how they perform logistics operations so we can help provide them with a streamlined more efficient manner to support and sustain their logistics to their forward troops," added Reed.
In Phase 3 of the training, the 40 JAF logistics staff planners who participated in the Phase 2 portion will execute the skills they have developed in a proof of principle exercise. Under observation from up to 100 observers, the staff planners will implement the tasks necessary to maintain sustaining operations in response to carefully chosen obstacles and problem sets commanders may face during operations.
"Through our continued evolution of support to the JAF our goal is to share our principles of logistics versus technology and allow them to incorporate what works for the JAF," said Reed.
In closing comments at the Phase 1 training, Brig. Gen. Robert Harter, commanding general of the 316th ESC and deputy commanding general of the 1st TSC, stated to the group “amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics.” Harter thanked the group and expressed his continued support in the mil-to-mil relationship.

• Date Taken: 03.09.2017
• Date Posted: 03.13.2017 08:05
• Story ID: 226620
• Location: AMMAN, JO