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In 1944, LTG Somervell wrote a timeless piece about logistics. He said, "No one has ever painted an inspiring picture of a general brandishing a requisition . . . and . . . the prancing charger is longer remembered than the pack mule." Well, this morning I'm going to talk about the requisition and the pack mule, and the men and women who fill those requisitions and pack those mules. And in parts of Afghanistan today, they do in fact still pack mules, and pack everything else that rolls, flies, or walks, but hardly anyone ever talks about it. We have 250,000 Soldiers in 80 countries, and we've been at war for seven years, with 140,000 Soldiers in theater today. And nobody ever asks, who feeds those guys? Our logisticians are victims of their own success. Their work is so good it is invisible-it's a given. Wherever our Army goes, whatever our Soldiers need, whenever they need it, they get it.