Piggee: Army training to be more self-sufficient in maintenance

By Ashley Tressel / November 6, 2018 at 10:38 AM
The Army's head of logistics said today he is focused on "going back to the basics" by taking over maintenance from contractors and relearning "the fundamentals" that were lost during counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations. Lt. Gen. Aundre Piggee, deputy chief of staff (G-4), said the Army has quickened the pace of moving equipment overseas and is "expanding and reconfiguring" its prepositioned stocks across the globe. "I believe we are in much better shape than we were just two years ago,"...

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