Rail yards serve as major nodes that facilitate delivery of cargo to the consignee. The level of operational efficiency maintained within rail yards determines whether customers receive cargo late. Various external and internal factors can impede...
Furnished by the Office of the Quartermaster General of the Army, Transportation Division. Contains the regulations concerning rail and commercial vessel transportations of troops, individuals, supplies, equipment, property, animals, obtaining...
This research report discusses the automobile in the United States, its use by the population, effect on lifestyle, effect on new laws, production changes, effect on mass transportation, and geographical registration as caused by need and...
This study investigates the contributing factors of rail congestion at Kansas City Southern Railway's (KCSR) switching yard - Knoche Yard - located in Kansas City, Missouri. This thesis asserts that lack of locomotives, known as power, is the most...
This study addressed the need for a model of Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) to provide insight to decision makers. A simulation model was developed to capture the key processes, the limiting resources, and the major relationships influencing...
The objective of this monograph is to present a general description of the organization and activities of the transportation zones, including the separate installations over which the zone transportation officers have jurisdiction. More detailed...
Weekly intelligence summary of 14th Air Force operations over China during the weeks 2-8 August and 9-15 August and ground operations from 1 August to cessation of hostilities. Includes China's status of railroads, airfields, Shanghai, and...
This paper discusses the use of armored cars by the cavalry units in performing cavalry missions, advantages and disadvantages of types of vehicles and their use and requirements.
Providing a narrative analysis of US Army reconnaissance, scout, and cavalry evolution from the post-World War I era through the Iraqi conflict, this book outlines key developments in the concepts governing reconnaissance units from the armored...
The goal of this study was to develop a standardized rail plan for control, priorities, and movement of an armored division administratively within the United States. The following topics are presented within the document: background, trends and...
This study investigates the use of rail transportation as a method to simultaneously transport military personnel and equipment from a unit’s home station to the Joint Readiness Training Center or the National Training Center. It describes the...
This monograph was one of a series prepared by the faculty of the Quartermaster Corps School dealing with the operations of the Quartermaster Corps during the World War. It reveals some of the lessons learned of the World War on the subject of...
FM 2-10 addresses individual instruction in motor vehicle operation, drill, ceremonies and inspections, mounted scouting and patrolling, and combat training of small units.
65th Fighter Wing, 8th U.S. Air Force, Headquarters
This document was written to make and show why certain recommendations may help future air force commanders conserve fighters; this is not a training manual, however. It details the fact that flak was by far the most dangerous weapon the strategic...
This work is substantially a translation of an enemy document which has been edited and is based on the experiences of the German Army during the first two winters of the war in Russia.
Report states LA Port Statistics Control Division: Vol.1 No.22. Port of LA statistical data using charts and graphs on personnel, embarkations, debarkations, cargo lifted, postal service, and prisoners of war from Sept.1942 until Oct.1943.
This study uses The Theory Of Constraints (TOC) management methodology and recent military missions to show that RSOI operations are generally the limiting constraint to force deployment operations. This runs counter to the popular belief that...