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SASC Member Urges DoD Leaders To Invest More In Logistics

SASC Member Urges DoD Leaders To Invest More In Logistics
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 252, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group stage tactical vehicles before a convoy at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Oct. 27, 2019. Marines from CLB-252 staged and maintained vehicles in preparation for MAGTF Warfighting Exercise 1-20.

The Defense Department should place a greater emphasis on funding and developing transportation and logistics capabilities to support its lethal assets in a future conflict, and explicitly prioritize it in future national defense strategies, a Senate Armed Services Committee member and retired military officer said Dec. 5. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a member of the SASC readiness and management support subcommittee and retired Army Reservist, critiqued senior department leaders for “blind spots” related to logistics and transportation capabilities within the…

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