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During
Exercise COMBINED / JOINT LOGISTICS OVER-THE-SHORE 2001
(C/JLOTS 01) off Republic of Korea’s coast, U.S. soldiers
and sailors watch the sinking of a Single Anchor Leg Moor
(SALM) from the SS Chesapeake. The SALM is an important
part of the U.S. Navy’s Offshore Petroleum Discharge
System (OPDS) to deliver fuel or fresh water ashore during
contingency operations.
Photo by Lt. Lisa Brackenberry, USN
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More than 1,500
men and women from the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK)
completed the COMBINED / JOINT LOGISTICS OVER-THE-SHORE (C/JLOTS) exercise
at Chilpo and Yonghon beaches, north of Pohang, ROK.
Designed to develop the capabilities of both U.S. and ROK forces to
transfer fuel and supplies that arrive by ship and smaller landing craft
safely and efficiently to forces inland, C/JLOTS was the first bare
beach delivery of military equipment in Korea since the Korean War’s
Inchon landing almost 51 years ago. The exercise also tested the ability
of ROK and U.S. forces to communicate and operate with each other in
a true joint and combined environment. The exercise also dovetailed
with a Turbo Containerized Ammunition Distribution System exercise
“This is the first time we’ve done a C/JLOTS exercise here
in Korea,” said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jack C. Stultz, the exercise
combined/joint task force commander, “and it’s had real value
from two perspectives.
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