SAUDI ARABIA --
In the small port city of Yanbu on the Red Sea coast of western Saudi Arabia, more than 600 vehicles and pieces of equipment were offloaded via a Maritime Prepositioning Force offload operation during exercise Native Fury 22.
But how was Combat Logistics Regiment 1, the exercise's lead unit, able to acquire hundreds of thousands of pounds of equipment in order to meet mission requirements? The answer: the Blount Island Command employed a technical assistance advisory team lead by the TAAT officer in charge, Maj. Jason Paredes.
Paredes, the Blount Island Command Supply Branch Head and a native of Miami, FL, has worked in the hub of the Marine Corps' prepositioning programs in Jacksonville, Florida, for just over two years helping support the command's mission of supporting Fleet Marine Forces.
"As a supply officer for the program, I am responsible for all of the equipment accountability on the 12 MPF vessels," said Paredes. "I am also responsible for our general count and all of the repair parts and secondary repairables for maintenance and sustainment of the program."
Traditionally, ground supply officers lead and train Marines in coordinating the equipment and material for mission requirements as well as the supervision of purchasing and contracting supplies for their assigned unit.
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