Spearhead of Logistics | US Army Transportation Corps

Nothing Happens Until Something Moves

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Every plan eventually becomes a Transportation Corps problem._x000D_
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Soldiers have to get there._x000D_
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Equipment has to get there._x000D_
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Fuel, ammunition, food, vehicles, replacement parts, and everything else required to keep the force operating has to get there._x000D_
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The Transportation Corps challenge coin honors the Army professionals responsible for making that movement happen._x000D_
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Transportation Corps Soldiers connect the force across road, rail, air, and sea. They move units from home station to training areas, from ports to theater, from logistics hubs to operational formations, and across the distances that separate capability from actual combat power._x000D_
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A weapon sitting in the wrong place is not combat power._x000D_
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A vehicle parked hundreds of miles from where it is needed is not combat power._x000D_
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Transportation turns resources into reach._x000D_
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Maneuver formations may execute the fight, but the transportation brandh makes sure the forces reach it._x000D_

Mobility Is Combat Power

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Transportation is sometimes treated as the space between important events._x000D_
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That misses the point._x000D_

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• Movement is an operation.

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• Convoys have to be planned.

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• Routes have to be selected.

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• Loads have to be configured.

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• Timelines have to synchronize.

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Aircraft, vessels, rail assets, terminals, drivers, crews, and equipment all have to converge at the right place at the right time._x000D_
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When transportation works, a massive amount of effort becomes nearly invisible._x000D_

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• A unit simply arrives.

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• The equipment is there.

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• The supplies show up.

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• The mission moves forward.

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• That is what success looks like.

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Built for the People Who Move the Army

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This Transportation Corps challenge coin is designed for Transportation Soldiers, 88-series professionals, motor transport operators, movement-control personnel, transportation officers, NCOs, veterans, retirees, port operations personnel, railway specialists, and the Soldiers responsible for moving the Army wherever the mission requires._x000D_
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It makes a strong keepsake for:_x000D_

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• Transportation School graduation,

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• promotion,

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• PCS,

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• reenlistment,

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• deployment,

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• retirement,

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• unit recognition,

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• motor transport professionals,

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• movement-control teams,

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• logistics personnel,

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• transportation officers,

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• and anyone whose military career revolved around answering:

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“How are we getting all of this there?”

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Because planning the mission is one thing._x000D_
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Moving the force is another._x000D_
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Spearhead of Logistics._x000D_
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Nothing Happens Until Something Moves._x000D_
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You can’t kill it until we deliver it.