Risk Management Magazine

The command maintenance discipline program (CMDP) allows commanders to evaluate unit maintenance programs on a day-to-day basis. It is oriented toward combat readiness and sustainability.

Using a closed-loop system of risk management, the 8th Theater Sustainment Command (8th TSC) assesses, evaluates and mitigates risk to its Army watercraft systems (AWS) while conducting joint operations to support theater opening, theater sustainment and theater distribution within the U.S. Indo-Pacific area of responsibility (AOR).

It was a breezy spring morning on a demolition range in California. I clearly recall our newly assigned platoon leader telling us to make sure we expended all explosives because the boss said to not turn in anything.