Attention Fellow Logisticians

Besides pithy observations about politics and society in general, I'm also going to start talking a little more about logistics, since it's one of the few subjects I can discuss with some expertise.

I recently received a call and then an e-mail (see excerpt below) from Bob Dalton, an AKO Tool Developer Users Group (TDUG) Administrator. Anyway, I'm very impressed with what he showed me. See for yourself:

Here are clickable links to our Army Organization Groups on AKO for those of you having problems locating us. Just click them while logged onto AKO and it will take you to that site.

Be sure to click the "Bookmark" icon once you are there to make it easier to get here next time. Please pass this information onto others.

PowerPoint Central contains over 700 Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, briefing and training classes on virtually everything of interest at the Brigade and below levels. The eighteenth most popular group Army wide on AKO with over 160,000 downloads to date! https://www.us.army.mil/suite/portal.do?$p=446

SOP Central contains over 200 example SOPs on virtually everything you can imagine and all in Microsoft Word format for easy editing. The fifty ninth most popular group Army wide on AKO with over 50,000 downloads to date!https://www.us.army.mil/suite/portal.do?$p=521

Tool Central contains over 440 military specific software tools of all types. Over 240 Military Excel spreadsheets alone! It is also the only place you can find the entire Digital Logistics freeware military software collection on the Internet! These 30+ state of the art professionally done military software tools cover training, logistics, operations and many other areas. The seventh most popular group Army wide on AKO with over 400,000 downloads to date!https://www.us.army.mil/suite/portal.do?$p=424

TDUG Main Site: This is the parent group and main entry point site for all of the above. The TDUG site also provides encouragement and a technical forum for soldiers wanting to develop software tools of all types of their own. https://www.us.army.mil/suite/portal.do?$p=229

We highly recommend that you first consider downloading and reviewing the TDUG User Guide, which contains just about everything you need to know about any of the above groups and there files. To do so just click the following link: https://mail.jdp.us.army.mil/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://www.us.army.mil/suite/doc/1263562