Zenon Evans
Ohio State University campus police (OSU PD) recently acquired what appears to be a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicle to add to their fleet. Several attempts to contact the university have garnered little information about why a vehicle, which was specifically designed for asymmetric warfare, is needed on campus....
All that Ohio State needs now in it's personnel department is a Brigade Combat Team Configuration.
Part 3 of Sense and Respond Series
Sense and Respond Logistics at the Unit Level
by Major Michael F. Hammond
This article, (click here) the final in a series of three on sense and respond logistics, looks at the brigade combat team’s existing capabilities and practices that follow the sense and respond approach....
Before examining how the BSB operates within the sense and respond framework, one must understand the composition of the battalion and the assets it carries. The BSB performs several basic functions on the battlefield.
First, the battalion’s distribution company distributes food and water, paper supplies, petroleum and lubricants, construction and engineering materials, ammunition, personal demand items, complete assemblies like weapon systems and vehicles, medical supplies, and repair parts. The distribution company’s transportation section carries these sustainment stocks for the brigade.
Second, the battalion’s maintenance company performs field maintenance and vehicle recovery.
Third, the battalion’s medical company provides health services in the form of medical dispensary, pharmacy, mental health, and physician’s assistant services. In a deployed environment, the medical company has surgeons on staff to stabilize combat casualties for transportation.
Fourth, logistics planners in the battalion’s support operations office plan and coordinate the fulfillment of the brigade combat team’s sustainment requirements....
I'd like to see that job description.
May 25, 2012
Army.mil/News|
by Kris Osborn, ASA(ALT)
Some of the MRAPS will be placed in brigade combat team configurations for as-needed troop transport and route clearance missions; some will be put in storage facilities and others will be kept for training purposes, according to Department of the Army G-8 officials.
"The MRAPs were a very successful program," said Col. Mark Barbosa, chief, Focused Logistics Division, Director of Material, G-8. "The $45-billion investment had Office of the Secretary of Defense, or OSD, oversight, with very strong support in Congress. The platform was rushed to theater to protect our Soldiers and it did very well. In order to meet the timelines we needed to meet, we had to go to multiple vendors and we had to go to very large quantities."...
Ohio States has an ROTC program (click here) that is an elective. It does provide some scholarships. This is what the programs CLAIMS it will do for their students.
- Build your confidence
- Teach you how to be a member of a team
- Teach you new skills
- Help you make life long friends
- Challenger your fitness level
- Show you what pride is all about
- Above all you will become a...LEADER
Now, if that vehicle is suppose to serve a purpose with students it needs to leave campus and be returned to it's military installation. If it part of the ROTC program it is nothing but hubris and needs to leave campus and be returned to it's military unit.
The American people are not suppose to be exposed to a militarized infrastructure. There is deploying the military directly and then there is deploying the 'military like' law enforcement that is a huge overreach of government. This is outrageous and it give incentive to idiots with military style weapons to purchase and arm themselves with more of the same.
A 92 year old man died in his bedroom because no one bothered to give a damn and this is societies answer. Enough.
