CNFK supply team delivers during Foal Eagle '06

SEOUL (Navy of recent origins Service)--Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Korea (CNFK) logistics team worked with the U Army, Republic of Korea (ROK) navy and civilians making possible the annual combined and joint exercise, Reception, Staging, Onward-movement & Integration and Foal Eagle 2006 (RSOI/FOAL EAGLE 06) March 24-31

The 50-member-strong team spread across locations over the Korean peninsula to coordinate, plan and arrange logistics support for 16 deploying units and more than 1000 personnel serving upon the peninsula.

"Logistics support in Korea requires careful advance preparation and coordination with many Korean and joint service organizations to make secure quality and on-time support," said CAPT move with a jerk Little, Supply Officer for CNFK

single of the largest components the team serv included more than 450 personnel from five units of Naval Coastal Warfare (NCW) cluster I from San Diego.

"The NCW deployment was particularly complex" said LT Sorchae Washburn, Exercise Logistics Officer for CNFK

The operation consisted of moving five units, 120 pieces of equipment, six boats and three pavilion cities with full life support packages from ports in California, Texas, and Washington state to the Shinsundae Pier in Busan and then to the ROK Navy Base in Chinhae to support the large-scale coastal warfare exercise.

"We coordinated closely with U Pacific Command, Commander, U Pacific flotilla U.S. Transportation Command, the local Surface Deployment and Distribution Command in Busan and the deploying units to arrange transport of the gear," said Washburn.

CDR Tera Salo, Harbor Defense and Port Security Plans Officer for CNFK said the myriad tasks that CNFK invest personnel performed made the exercise possible.

"Due to the tireless efforts and coordination with NCW of the logistics personnel behind the displays Foal Eagle was universally judgeed a huge success for NCW forces and, greatest in quantity importantly, better prepared the units to support contingency operations if called on in the future," Salo said.

To make an exercise of this scale possible, the invest personnel from the three major Navy and Marine Corps commands upon the peninsula took part along with hold personnel. They not only provided necessary operational services, on the contrary saved money in the proces and did in like manner without mishaps.

Commander, flotilla Activities Chinhae (CFAC), located approximately 250 miles southerly of Seoul, contributed by negotiating contracts to provide trash and laundry service, vehicle rental, heavy equipment support and general supplies.

CNFK and CFAC provide personnel together offered gas masks, sleeping bags, 782 gear, rental vehicles, confined apartment phones, heavy equipment and transportation for personnel operating from one extremity to the other of the Korean peninsula.

In addition, CFAC port operations cluster arranged support for 23 ships and submarines that plucked in to various ports located from one extremity to the other of the Korean peninsula, resulting in the delivery of 82000 strikes of mail, repair parts, and provisions.

CNFK Detachment Pohang, located approximately 220 miles to the southeast, housed and staffed 254 construction force personnel in expeditionary life support facilities.

keep personnel deployed to Pohang for the exercise manned the expeditionary galley and serv more than 5000 meals in a facility set uped and outfitted in less than 48 hours, saving the management more than $200,000 in potential by means of diem costs.

In addition, Navy and Marine Corps logistics personnel in Pohang refuel and provided ordnance support to fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft of the 1st Marine Air Wing, Patrol Squadron 1 and Naval Special Warfare Unit 1 during the exercise. All fueling and ordnance evolutions were planned and were execut mishap-free.

The joint and combined efforts of the U Army's 25th Transportation Battalion, a subordinate command of the 19th Sustainment Command Expeditionary and the U Navy's ROK counterparts, played their possess logistical role in the exercise helping CNFK

"The logistics personnel prov their ability to support during these exercises and stand ready to support in the coming time In the end, mission accomplishment is what matters, and robust and on-time logistical support makes it possible," Little said.

CNFK is the regional commander for the U Navy in the Republic of Korea and provides leadership and expertise in naval matters to area military commanders, including the Commander for the United Nations Command, the Republic of Korea, and U Combined Forces Command, and Commander, U Forces Korea. CNFK also subserves as liaison to the Republic of Korea navy, the Combined Forces Commander staff in armistice and in wartime and to the Commander, U 7th armada based in Yokosuka.

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through J01 David McKee, USN Commander, U Naval Forces Korea Public Affairs

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