TMCs track movement during QLLEX

Published June 18, 2015
By Sgt. Marco Gutierrez
350th Public Affairs Detachment

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J -- Before the sun is out, and while many soldiers are still sleeping, transportation management coordinators with the 385th Movement Control Team are already beginning their 12-hour shift here.

On site at 4 a.m., 385th MCT coordinators are working to deliver thousands of gallons of fuel during the ongoing Quartermaster Liquid Logistic Exercise held at the joint base.

The QLLEX is part of Combat Support Training Exercise Global Lightning, the largest Army sustainment training exercise ever conducted and involves more than 12,000 service members from both U.S. and coalition forces, some of whom are operating out of the joint base.

"Our main mission is to track, coordinate and know what vehicles go out of the motor pool or the forward operating base," said Staff Sgt. Jerome Moody, 385th MCT transportation management supervisor out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Moody also explained that the Soldiers of the unit track all vehicle movement during the exercise and can tell each unit where their vehicles are, when it will arrive at it destination and when it will return.

"This is great training," because I get hands-on experience with my job, said Private 1st Class Aikeem Johnson, 385th MCB transportation management coordinator.

The movement of vehicles is critical to the success of the QLLEX, and the members of the 385th MCT are working to ensure that movement is done correctly.

"It's critical to track these hundreds of vehicles and know where they are, that's what we do," said Moody.