Stand-To!- SDDC now a Major Subordinate Command to Army Materiel Command - January 22, 2007 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mon Jan 22 09:56:53 EST 2007

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SENIOR LEADERS ARE SAYING

"While they still work for an American chain of command, they are living,
sleeping, fighting alongside their Iraqi host unit. Those advisors are
embedded there 24/7."-Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, chief operations officer for
the Joint Staff, Jan. 17, discussing an initiative to embed groups of
interagency civilians with brigades.

TODAY'S FOCUS

SDDC now a Major Subordinate Command to Army Materiel Command 

The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) is
officially a Major Subordinate Command (MSC) of the U.S. Army Materiel
Command (AMC), headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va. The SDDC falls under AMC
as one of their MSCs for administrative purposes. Operationally, SDDC
continues to work for the U.S. Transportation Command. 

The Army has designated it's three four-star commands -- Forces Command,
Training and Doctrine Command, and Army Materiel Command -- as "Army
Commands." Under AMC, the SDDC continues to be the Army Service Component
Command (ASCC) to USTRANSCOM -- a joint combatant command along with the Air
Force's Air Mobility Command and the Navy's Military Sealift Command that
provides USTRANSCOM with air, sea and surface capability to move DOD assets
worldwide.

AMC provides SDDC with are four-star level Army support in all aspects of
the command's administrative requirements. Major advantages of aligning SDDC
to AMC support the following emerging capabilities:

* Single Army integrator of logistics with joint and strategic partners. 
* Coordination of the end-to-end distribution pipeline from a national
sustainment base to deployed Theatre Support Commands.
* Providing command and control, training readiness oversight of assigned
forces. 
* Assisting Forces Command generation and rapid projection of trained and
ready forces from Continental United States based to Regional Combatant
Commander and reset of forces upon return to home station. 

SDDC remains an ASCC to USTRANSCOM. SDDC will continue to be responsible for
all end-to-end surface deployment and distribution as an ASCC under the
combatant command of USTRANSCOM. 

For more information about SDDC click here <http://www.sddc.army.mil>  and
for more information about AMC click  <http://www.amc.army.mil> here. 

WEEKEND SPORTS WRAP-UP

*	Army Edges Navy, 53-50 (GAS
<http://www.goarmysports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11100&ATCLID=750663>
) 

*	Army Wrestling Finishes Second at New York State Championships (GAS
<http://www.goarmysports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11100&ATCLID=750486>
)

NEWS ABOUT THE ARMY

*	Report says Army Colonel Punished for Iraq Orders (SAS
<http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=42968> ) 

*	Pacific Army Reserve Gets New Commander (HA
<http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/NEWS0
8/701220334/1018/NEWS> ) 

*	Guardsmen to be Honored for Border Actions (EB
<http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070122482893.html>  | AZNT
<http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/165637.php> ) 

*	82nd Airborne Battalion Arrives, Doubles FOB Loyalty's Population
(SAS <http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=42966> )

WAR ON TERROR NEWS

*	Bush: Iraq War Plan Will Prove its Worth (USAT
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-21-bush-interview_x.htm> ) 

*	Disguises Used in Attack on Troops (EB
<http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070122482855.html>  | WP
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/21/AR200701210
0227.html> ) 

*	Bombs Kill at Least 72 People in Baghdad (ABC
<http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/wireStory?id=2812248> ) 

*	U.S. Toll in Iraq is 27 for Deadly Weekend (EB
<http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070122482846.html>  | NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/world/middleeast/22iraq.html?_r=1&oref=sl
ogin> )

OF INTEREST

*	School Supplies Bring Smiles to Children (MNF
<http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9347&Item
id=128> ) 

*	2,900-Soldier Iron Focus Exercise Pits 'Good Guys' Against 'The Bad'
(SAS <http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=42975> ) 

*	Recruitment Numbers Stay Steady (SY
<http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1169459928
83440.xml&coll=1&thispage=1> ) 

*	Area Residents Join Ranks as U.S. Increases Troop Strength in Iraq
(ATM <http://www.altoonamirror.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=8529> )

WORLD VIEW

*	McCain Casts Doubt on Gen. Casey as U.S. Army Head (RT
<http://www.alertnet.org/>  | Story
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21205537.htm> ) 

*	Chopper Crash Toll 12, not 13 -- US Army (KNA
<http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Default.aspx?Language=en>  | Story
<http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=944399> ) 

*	Comelec Probes 'Special Treatment' for U.S. Soldier (GMAN
<http://www.gmanews.tv/>  | Story
<http://www.gmanews.tv/story/27689/Comelec-probes-special-treatment-on-US-so
ldier> ) 

*	U.S. Suffers Heavy Losses in Iraq (ALJ <http://www.aljazeera.com/>
| Story <http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=13130> )

WHAT'S BEING SAID IN BLOGS

*	Meeting the President (SAG <http://www.soldiersangelsgermany.org/> )

*	Iraq Pictures- 21 January 2007 (IRP
<http://iraqpictures.blogspot.com/> ) 

*	...Grateful and Desperate Nation... (BH
<http://www.bouhammer.com/nucleus/AfghanBlog.php> ) 

*	Combat Camera: 150th Field Artillery Trains Iraqi Police (TN
<http://thetension.blogspot.com/> )

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