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Article: Partnering with the Air Force: SDDC's 834th Transportation Battalion brings distribution capabilities to new Joint Task Force-Port Opening mission.
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- Translog
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- June 22, 2006
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The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command s (SDDC) 834th Transportation Battalion demonstrated its logistics capability at Selfridge Air National Guard Base May 10 and 11, while partnering with the Air Force in a first-ever Joint Assessment Team (JAT) supporting the new Joint Task Force--Port Opening (JTF-PO) mission during Ardent Sentry 06.
The JAT was composed of members from the 834th Transportation Battalion, Naval Weapons Station, Calif. and the 571st Contingency Response Group at Travis AFB, Calif.
JTF-PO is a command and control expeditionary capability to rapidly establish an initial theater port of debarkation, deployment and ...