Moving Man in Iraq: America's Logistical Task

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 6, 2004 | NEIL KING JR.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Ex-Marine Jack Holly is a logistics man in this most logistically challenged of countries. His assignment: to make sure $18.4 billion in U.S.-funded construction work and supplies get to the right place at the right time.

And that's in a country now suffering from a spate of armed militia and terrorist attacks and with no existing distribution system, a dysfunctional rail network, no major ports, no fully operational commercial airports, and roads already clogged with traffic.

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Logistics chief Jack Holly (blue shirt) last month
in the U.S. Program Management Office in Baghdad.

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Most of our contractors in Iraq, many with service backgrounds, are doing a fine job -- described here as "Herculean", and deserve our support too!

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Baghdad - Ex-Marine Jack Holly is a logistics man in this most logistically challenged of countries. His assignment: to make sure $18.4 billion in U.S.-funded construction work and supplies get to the right place at the right time.

"...The magnitude of this boggles the mind," says Mr. Holly

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