Army official: Aviation supply chain is the 'weak link' in sustaining force

By Ashley Tressel / April 19, 2019 at 12:48 PM
NASHVILLE, TN -- The executive director of Army Aviation and Missile Command says "the current level of fragility" within the aviation supply chain is "unacceptable" and his No. 1 concern for sustaining the force. Bill Marriott told an audience at the Army Aviation Association of America's annual summit here this week the supply chain is "the weak link" of sustainment and cannot keep up with the pace of current operations, let alone the multidomain operations the service expects to conduct...

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