MTMC BRACES FOR MAJOR REORGANIZATION

MTMC BRACES FOR MAJOR REORGANIZATION    U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff, General John M, Keane, has approved a plan to implement sweeping changes to how the Military Traffic Management Command manages its staff and operations.
   The reorganization will reduce redundant jobs and increase the efficiency at the headquarters of the military’s surface transportation logistics management unit, MTMC said.
   The plan involves combining the headquarters of MTMC in Alexandria, Va., with    the Deployment Support Command at Fort Eustis, Va., while maintaining offices in both locations.
   The operations staff, which is now split between the two locations, will be mostly located at Fort Eustis, making it MTMC’s operational hub. “We will be a more efficient organization to better support Army full spectrum initiatives,” said Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky, MTMC commander.
   The changes to MTMC’s operations are the largest in the command’s 36-year history. MTMC is responsible for the movement of Defense Department cargo worldwide and the movement service personnel’s personal property and privately owned vehicles.
   The reorganization will be conducted in a series of “gradual” changes:
   * The current commander at the Deployment Support Command will be designated as both deputy commanding general at MTMC and director of operations.
   * Formation of a single MTMC Operations Center at Fort Eustis.
   * Deactivation of MTMC’s Deployment Support Command at Fort Eustis.
   * Elimination of an operations division at MTMC headquarters in Alexandria.
   * Elimination o the Joint Traffic Management Office at MTMC headquarters in Alexandria.
   MTMC will reestablish the 597th Transportation Group at Sunny Point, N.C., as the single operational group headquarters for the former units of the Deployment Support Command.
   The reorganization will also trim about 250 jobs, or 9 percent, of MTMC’s current 2,346-employee work force.
   All changes will be in effect by June 30, 2003, MTMC said