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    Marines collaborate with UCSD students to prepare for future battles

    Marines collaborate with UCSD students to prepare for future battles

    Photo By Sgt. Dalton Swanbeck | Participants with the Hybrid Logistics Symposium observe a digital art piece at the...... read more read more

    SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES

    02.28.2018

    Story by Lance Cpl. Megan Roses 

    Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

    Headquarters Marine Corps, Deputy Commandant, Installations and Logistics Department in partnership with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), conducted the first Hybrid Logistics Symposium Feb. 26 – Mar. 1, 2018.

    More than 100 Marines and Sailors, junior enlisted and officers, along with civilian Marines, joined UCSD students to discuss concepts and equipment that will support the Marine logistical community in achieving success into the year 2025 and beyond.

    In a release announcing the conference, Lt. Gen. Michael Dana, Deputy Commandant for Installations said, “Moving toward a Hybrid Logistics model will require a logistics community that questions conventional wisdom, without ignoring the realities of the modern battlefield.”

    Hybrid Logistics incorporates proven logistic tactics with groundbreaking methods of supporting the Marines in combat. The tactics consist of five areas – additive manufacturing, unmanned logistics systems, smart logistics, expeditionary energy, and expeditionary medicine.

    The symposium consisted of multiple briefs, panels, and breakout groups. Top researchers and faculty from UCSD, Microsoft, Satori and DoD labs lead all discussions. Every DoD participant was nominated by their command and selected by the committee.

    Lance Cpl. Eli Dzurino, reserve Marine and mechanical engineering student, was excited to see the innovation happening and how Marine Corps moves forward improve processes.

    “In the near future, I have skills that I can take back to my reserve unit to help to implement some of the things we have talked about here,” said Dzurino, adding that the skills he is exercising can help solve design problems or help identify big-picture planning consideration.

    Based on the Marine Corps’ current trajectory, training like this will help prepare the future, smaller logistics force, to support dispersed operations over potentially hundreds and thousands of miles, said Col. Edward Bligh, Logistics Vision, Strategy and Innovation branch head.

    “It is allowing the Marines to see the art of the possible,” said Bligh. “They are certainly learning a lot from their fellow participants…people who think like they do and are willing to challenge the status quo and question how things can be better,” adding that as an organization the Marine Corps may be able to take what is done here this week, to something that may be applied across the force in the near future.

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    Date Taken: 02.28.2018
    Date Posted: 02.28.2018 18:23
    Story ID: 267629
    Location: SAN DIEGO, CA, US

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