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    Hometown Hero: COL Hugh McCallum

    Col. McCallum Promotion

    Photo By Staff Sgt. Connie Jones | Col. Hugh McCallum during his promotion ceremony at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Feb. 2,...... read more read more

    CAMP ARIFJAN, KUWAIT

    07.30.2019

    Story by Sgt. Connie Jones 

    184th Sustainment Command

    Col. Hugh McCallum is deployed with 184th Sustainment Command to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as the support operations officer of 1st Theater Sustainment Command’s Operational Command Post. He leads a staff who coordinate, synchronize, and manage the ordering, movement, and distribution of logistics that sustain U.S. and coalition forces throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. During the deployment, McCallum was promoted to the rank of colonel.

    The 184th Sustainment Command, Mississippi Army National Guard, assumed responsibility of daily sustainment operations throughout the Middle East in December of 2018. The unit serves as the operational command post for the Ft. Knox-based 1st Theater Sustainment Command and manages the day-to-day sustainment operations theater wide. The area of responsibility includes 20 countries, including Iraq and Syria, with four ongoing U.S. military operations, covering 4.5 million square miles, 550 million people, and 22 ethnic groups speaking 18 different languages.

    The 1st TSC supplies everything from food, water and medicine to vehicles and repair parts so warfighters can accomplish their mission. They manage the ports, flights, and customs points needed to keep people and equipment moving 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They also legal support as well as support in the areas of financial management, human resources, humanitarian aid distribution, host-nation engagements, and medical care for troops and civilians within the command.

    The unit is expected to return later this year.

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    NEWS INFO

    Date Taken: 07.30.2019
    Date Posted: 07.31.2019 02:57
    Story ID: 333589
    Location: CAMP ARIFJAN, KW
    Hometown: BRANDON, MS, US

    Web Views: 75
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