He has vast construction-management experience, both deployed and in garrison, including construction of aircraft parking aprons, facility construction and operations, and
force beddown. He has served as the executive officer for the commander, US Air Forces Central, as well as a commander's action group action officer and political military adviser responsible for managing the commander's staff, writing speeches, and preparing senior-executive-level presentations for both domestic and foreign audiences.
The ESS IPT is working to develop a tool that would become a one-stop-shop for site selection and
force beddown. When a combatant command (COCOM) has decided on a course of action and wants to position forces, this tool would provide log planners the ability to give the COCOM a valid and reliable sight picture of the feasibility of a particular base.
"A lot of the work going on in Iraq and Afghanistan is reconstruction and
force beddown; of course, it is in a war environment."
There will be a constant need for
force beddown, logistics support, medical treatment, internment, and refugee holding facilities to sustain Army operations in the contemporary operating environment.
Other services' reliance on Air
Force beddown capability and quality-of-life assets, when collocated with Air Force forces, strained Air Force assets.
It has incorporated joint and coalition engineers into the team as it continues to assure the mobility, survivability, and
force beddown of first V Corps and now CJTF-7.
Force beddown is the responsibility of the regional combatant commander, whose staff must account for the specific beddown requirements of its air component once the total number and type of aircraft are known.
* Before the fight, we must develop a comprehensive strategic plan for postconflict engineering, base camps, and
force beddown. Simultaneously, we must streamline and expedite approval and funding of contingency military construction projects.
RED HORSE provides highly mobile, rapidly deployable operational support to meet
force beddown requirements and repair war damage.
My duties also included base supply, individual equipment, fuels, host nation support, and incoming
force beddown. One would think that the enlisted force would provide the missing expertise.
Among these, only Southwest Asia has approved data on targeting,
force beddown, and time-phased force and deployment.
BCAT uses advanced database design to compare deployment site
force beddown capabilities against deploying force requirements and produce a list of resource shortfalls.