Nonstandard Logistics Sustainment Support in the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams

摘要

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson won congressional approval for a mission of epic proportions. Two former Infantry captains, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, would lead a group of soldiers, called the "Corps of Discovery," on what became a 2-year adventure to find navigable river routes to the Pacific. Two hundred years later, the same glacial prairies of the Pacific Northwest that Lewis and Clark crossed to reach the ocean would again challenge men, and now women, of the U.S. Army-this time with technology so advanced it would change the face of the modern battlefield. Under the daunting shadow of Mount Rainer came the final word: Fort Lewis, Washington (named after Meriwether Lewis), would host the initial fielding phase of the Army's first Stryker brigade combat teams (SBCTs): the 3d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, and the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Light). [The Army plans to establish six SBCTs. The other four units planned for conversion to SBCTs are the 172d Infantry Brigade at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, the 2d Cavalry Regiment at Fort Lewis, the 2d Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Light), at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and the 56th Brigade, 28th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Pennsylvania Army National Guard.]