Military Affairs updates. Col Mark Gardner speaks.

September26th, Marietta and its a breakfast for members and gusest of the Atlanta RegionalMilitary Affairs Comittee.

A very supportive group of more than 40 folk from around Cobb County and the metro Atlanata area joine together to hear from Cpt Tommy Clack as their monthly speaker. Cpt Clack was on his second tour of duty in Viet nam in 1969 when operating near the Cambodian border he fell victim to incoming shells. A triple amputee who spent a lot of time in and out of the Veterans Hospital in Atlanta.

Scheduling caused him not to be able to join the meeting but nothing was lost because the group was then provided with an amazing account of what, who and when of logistical movements for a planned attack and support of our troops in Iraq.

Col. Mark C Gardner a US Army leader and logistcal strategic planner was presssed into action and came through in superstar tradition.

Col. Gardner took the group through his involvement with the up front planning and implememtation of  several battles in which he was involved. Interestingly enough his main mode of transportation of equipment and soldiers was laid to rest on the products of outr own Lockheed Martin Corporation here in marietta.

His role which was making sure everything got to where it was supposed to be on time and in perfect condition so as to support the efforts of our fighting team in the war zone.

C5As and C 130s were often a part of his equipment that was being sent into the zone as choice mode of transportation. On einteresting fact was that material often went over in ships as the faster way of deployment. Compared to the time and effort of loading equipment and moving it around to the appropriate bases for final movement into a war zone.

He had the audience glued to their seats and drew on his personal experinces to fill in facts with real life situations.