WEBVTT 00:16.560 --> 00:20.270 Hello and welcome to the first theatre sustain commands. Blackjack express. 00:20.470 --> 00:23.930 I'm specialists kelsey. Jeff first coming up on this addition 00:24.220 --> 00:27.400 during his 10 year the first the their sustained commands commanding 00:27.400 --> 00:31.670 general played a major role in shaping history. Now as that chapter 00:31.670 --> 00:34.950 comes to one and no commanding general stepson to lead the first 00:34.950 --> 00:36.340 to see and to the future. 00:37.050 --> 00:41.310 And what does it take to respond to natural disaster the soldiers 00:41.310 --> 00:44.070 of the first feeders to stay my commands learned a valuable lesson 00:44.100 --> 00:45.710 and a final training exercise. 00:46.230 --> 00:50.310 Also coming your way to do know that during the korean war approximately 00:50.310 --> 00:53.860 31 point five million times in the cheryl wish it to korea from 00:53.860 --> 00:55.750 the United States by look just a shunned. 00:56.340 --> 00:59.760 But first and then chop to began as the first feeder sustain 00:59.760 --> 01:02.580 command special troops tying commander lieutenant Colonel. 01:02.580 --> 01:05.630 Kevin gill send can it has authority over until it tonight Carmel 01:05.630 --> 01:09.190 day that seat and a change of command ceremony up for brad on 01:09.190 --> 01:09.760 june tenth. 01:10.270 --> 01:12.120 Sargent david can able tells us more. 01:12.890 --> 01:15.770 More than 50 first to see soldier stood information that the 01:15.770 --> 01:19.140 tender content until some transferred responsibility of a special 01:19.140 --> 01:22.030 troops battalion to the can occur updated see the dead Colonel 01:22.030 --> 01:24.820 until sinking his final words of wisdom to the soldiers family 01:24.820 --> 01:27.570 members and friends of the first team they didn't work out. 01:28.080 --> 01:31.180 About thank you for the opportunity to be in such a great and 01:31.180 --> 01:34.610 challenging in and I'm proud of the many things accomplished 01:34.610 --> 01:35.780 over the last two years. 01:36.330 --> 01:39.390 And i've grown was a leader I have the opportunity work for some 01:39.390 --> 01:43.930 of the best soldiers nco's and officers that i've met my military career. 01:44.480 --> 01:47.170 The troops and family members were getting into until since top 01:47.170 --> 01:50.610 priority during his could make the mission which is split between 01:50.640 --> 01:53.990 multiple locations could be a challenge for some but you can 01:53.990 --> 01:57.180 occur until since top are already has always been the well-being 01:57.180 --> 02:00.200 of the soldiers and their families that are great on open door 02:00.200 --> 02:03.890 policy if they have a question to come for those um we had of 02:04.300 --> 02:05.520 he people command. 02:06.080 --> 02:10.350 In the members also that can command to to lamb and he would 02:10.350 --> 02:14.380 just sit in our and talk to a um and figured things out and help 02:14.380 --> 02:17.720 but now the best because as lieutenant Colonel see takes charge 02:17.720 --> 02:21.050 jennison's demand. He brings a new vision to the soldiers but 02:21.050 --> 02:23.940 continues to praise the work of the 10 a couple since time and 02:23.940 --> 02:24.350 thinking that. 02:25.060 --> 02:28.050 For the first peter sustain the command at Fort bragg north carolina 02:28.080 --> 02:29.340 uncertainty the table. 02:30.010 --> 02:32.840 The to nick Kroll Nielsen's Nexus five made it that the Pentagon 02:32.870 --> 02:36.030 working with the department the army's cheap three forced modernisation 02:36.030 --> 02:39.310 team on behalf of the first came when wish Connolly nielsen and 02:39.310 --> 02:41.520 his family the best of luck in the future. 02:42.450 --> 02:45.770 More than a year ago the greater fate. No area form pride and 02:45.770 --> 02:49.560 surrounding cities were hit hard by a tornado causing massive destruction. 02:50.120 --> 02:53.330 If the natural disaster hit that are home run again the soldiers 02:53.330 --> 02:56.290 of the first to see our prime didn't prepare to respond. 02:56.840 --> 02:59.380 Sergeant first class jessica green gear has the. Story. 03:03.490 --> 03:06.420 National disasters can strike without any warning meeting in 03:06.420 --> 03:09.970 its wake a half dozen destruction. But the soldiers of the first 03:09.970 --> 03:13.670 to see are now ready to respond at any time and and we're things 03:13.670 --> 03:16.860 to over greece roll-up exercise designed to test their ability 03:16.860 --> 03:21.110 to vehicles and troops of quickly to help a local disaster relief efforts. 03:21.590 --> 03:24.280 I feel that they've been a good thing in like the four. 03:25.250 --> 03:26.480 Three different reasons. 03:27.150 --> 03:31.480 Two-incher. That the vehicles or able to be moved out at a to 03:31.480 --> 03:32.880 now one moment notice. 03:33.430 --> 03:35.960 Two-incher that the soldiers themselves. 03:36.470 --> 03:39.660 Will properly trained on the vehicles that to ensure that the 03:39.660 --> 03:40.340 we years. 03:42.050 --> 03:45.850 We're able to train no soldiers in the exercise should head the 03:45.850 --> 03:49.320 vehicles in the first to says motor for for rotating convoys 03:49.690 --> 03:52.900 the training top as soldiers had a pair of vehicles and the conflict 03:52.940 --> 03:56.850 people ball at a moment's notice guy from the the that that side. 03:57.890 --> 04:00.580 Uh. Good idea of mania. 04:01.100 --> 04:03.030 It goes we have that would be great. 04:04.440 --> 04:05.160 Does the it. 04:06.230 --> 04:07.560 To the gaze. 04:08.120 --> 04:12.830 That. The Whether at home or in the to the sold is the first 04:12.830 --> 04:16.060 T's and possibly trying to ensure that unit was always ready 04:16.060 --> 04:18.610 for the mission and anything that may come away. 04:19.280 --> 04:22.030 For the first theater sustaining command up for like the one 04:22.030 --> 04:24.060 that I'm certain first class specifically. 04:25.280 --> 04:29.160 Yeah. The row last exercise is just one of the many bidders training 04:29.160 --> 04:32.640 exercises that the first to see if held to ensure that the unit 04:32.640 --> 04:35.560 is always prepared for the monument on missions they take on. 04:36.630 --> 04:40.120 Every new beginning starts from an ending on july twelfth the 04:40.120 --> 04:43.530 first theatre sustain the command move forward and deny historical 04:43.530 --> 04:46.570 chapter as they welcomed a new commanding general sargent. 04:46.570 --> 04:49.860 First class can barely cover williams tells us more about the story. 04:56.720 --> 05:02.350 Either. I Us toward all-time of operation enduring freedom operation 05:02.350 --> 05:05.650 new don as well is expanding I would just go for turned into 05:05.650 --> 05:09.390 Afghanistan the first to seize commanding general major general 05:09.390 --> 05:12.910 Kenneth us-styled commanded and elder son monumentally mission. 05:12.940 --> 05:17.340 It's that out after two years as a commander concludes the transfers 05:17.340 --> 05:20.370 of Doherty into the hands of major general kirgiz Stein. 05:21.020 --> 05:24.020 Under. Highly capable leadership. 05:24.910 --> 05:27.060 The command was in constant motion. 05:28.480 --> 05:30.520 They said a very high standard. 05:31.210 --> 05:32.170 For jealousy. 05:33.220 --> 05:34.260 Practice wasted. 05:35.330 --> 05:36.950 And creative religious six. 05:37.700 --> 05:40.050 Overcoming daunting challenges. 05:40.760 --> 05:42.640 And delivering incredible results. 05:43.320 --> 05:46.860 What's information about what they did troops by major general 05:46.860 --> 05:50.250 down handed the colors to major general Stein passing on the 05:50.250 --> 05:54.240 responsibility rich history and the continuing mission of the 05:54.240 --> 05:55.770 first thing it is just in the coming in. 05:57.500 --> 06:01.200 At the end of this hormonal soldiers family members and civilians 06:01.200 --> 06:04.750 lined up to welcome the judging elstein and his family and say 06:04.750 --> 06:08.600 one last farewell to major general down and his family as they 06:08.600 --> 06:12.080 move on to the next chapter of their lives reporting for the 06:12.080 --> 06:14.890 first the to sustain the command at Fort bragg north carolina. 06:15.290 --> 06:17.630 I'm such a first time scandal into. Billions. 06:20.690 --> 06:23.010 The first the there's just thing they command would like to extend 06:23.010 --> 06:25.690 a warm. Welcome to their new commanding general major general 06:25.690 --> 06:27.330 kurt time and his family. 06:27.910 --> 06:28.610 First tea. 06:29.990 --> 06:32.680 The meeting you is challenge following the invasion of north 06:32.680 --> 06:36.100 korea it during the korean war was to deploy troops and equipment 06:36.100 --> 06:39.880 quickly enough to stop a north korean tied endgame time for buildup 06:39.880 --> 06:43.010 of combat power on the peninsula the army slowed to stations 06:43.010 --> 06:46.020 were successful in carrying out the mission within three months 06:46.020 --> 06:49.950 deploying over 100 Belgian personnel and two million times material 06:49.950 --> 06:50.540 to korea. 06:51.050 --> 06:54.100 The cheryl stourton that peter after world war two pro to be 06:54.100 --> 06:58.160 a major sources supplies and the korean war early mumps the Ortiz 06:58.160 --> 07:01.240 revill program a japan was bottle tea using this material. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.970 The korean war pioneered the use of the container express for 07:04.970 --> 07:08.180 comic service which began what the shipment of container from 07:08.180 --> 07:10.770 japan to create it in june of 19 50 one. 07:11.990 --> 07:16.160 By november 19 52 comics artist with being tested from the United 07:16.160 --> 07:18.920 States and the average still every time of containers from the 07:18.920 --> 07:23.000 United States to to and was 27 days the just tics and support 07:23.000 --> 07:27.960 activities for final to the success of us and un korean war operations 07:28.090 --> 07:31.420 without extensive inhibition trans. Oceanic shipping the times 07:31.420 --> 07:34.190 the falcons of service people and the hundreds of thousands of 07:34.190 --> 07:37.350 tons of beans bowl looking petroleum. Needed every month but 07:37.350 --> 07:41.570 never reached the war sound that was some 5000 miles from the us. 07:42.150 --> 07:45.480 Without well equipped to effectively stack japanese bases close 07:45.480 --> 07:48.540 to the combat the it or see any air operations would've been 07:48.540 --> 07:52.920 gravely hundred and during the crisis periods of summer 19 50 07:52.950 --> 07:57.460 and when turn 19 50 to 51 probably impossible without the hard 07:57.460 --> 08:00.640 work of low to stations the insertion and sustenance of the large 08:00.640 --> 08:03.620 ground forces needed to defend that country simply could not 08:03.620 --> 08:04.200 up and down. 08:05.080 --> 08:08.640 Well as all the time. 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