Deciding who goes, where and when

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Forces Command maps out how troops will be used


Deciding who goes, where and when
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Oct 14, 2007 14:08:31 EDT


FORT McPHERSON, Ga. — The basement of Forces Command headquarters looks like any other basement in the Army.

But visitors to this basement must turn in their cell phones and laptops. Signs at the door tell employees to use their access cards; no tailgating is allowed. And if you sneak in a cell phone, the big voice on the speakers warns: “An unauthorized cell phone has been detected.”

This is a top-secret area occupied mostly by lieutenant colonels, majors and Army civilians. Their work is one of the most important and delicate in the Army.

In this basement, these officers and civilians figure out how to fill requests for troops to meet the needs of U.S. Central Command and other combatant commands.

Who deploys next? Where should they go? Will they be able to fulfill the mission outlined in the request?

The answers to these questions are mapped out in this basement, the work space of about 60 soldiers and Army civilians of Forces Command’s plans division, under the G-3/5/7.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/army_forcescom_071014w/