U.S. Army:
Army railroaders undergoing dramatic change
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (Aug. 12, 2015) -- A transporter in the rather obscure corner of logistics called rail operations, Sgt. 1st Class Elrick Richburg literally has a boot on each side of progress. He has logged 17 years as a rail Soldier in the traditional sense but has spent the past two years helping to shape a future marked by dramatic change.
That change, technically termed Army Rail Transformation, or ART, includes the consolidation of all three rail military occupational specialties and a shift from an operational mission to a strategic one.
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Additionally, the Army railway career field will shrink from roughly 600 troops to 150, and railway Soldiers will shed their heavy hands-on rail responsibilities for roles as rail operations advisors to combatant command host nations, said Gary Houts, a U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command training specialist charged with overseeing the course changes.
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