David Wightwick of Save the Children says that in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan hitting the Philippines there weren't enough seats on the planes for all of the international volunteers but when he asked 28 logisticians to travel to the affected countries, 21 said no.
Regardless, due to the ability of U.S. logisticians to innovate and improvise, supplies of food, water, ammunition, and spare parts arrived at their destinations without any shortages hampering combat operations and the communications system, although complicated, functioned well enough during the short duration of U.S. operations.
Just as a triage nurse needs to know the patients' conditions, the logisticians need to know what items needs to be stored or moved, when and where.
Mered's network in Tripoli was linked to recruiters and logisticians in virtually every major population center in East Africa.
This means that carpenters' spatial skills should be close to those of logisticians, but lower than that of high school students.
Spatial skills are often partially correlated with the general school level, and the general school level of carpenter apprentices is admittedly lower than that of high school students and comparable to that of logisticians (Stalder [30]).
Oxfam -- Though Oxfam recently ended their ongoing work in Chile, the organization is sending water engineers and logisticians to assess the situation and determine what sort of ongoing aid is needed.
A massive coordinated attack on a NATO supply depot on the outskirts of Peshawar on December 8 , 2008and the destruction of over 100 vehicles destined for troops in Afghanistan forced Western military logisticians to rethink their relationships with the various strong men of Central Asia.
But what has changed in the last 60 hours at Fort Bragg, officers here said, is that others, too, have begun to shift to battle rhythm, with planners, logisticians, security personnel and others all beginning to acclimate themselves to the round-the-clock pace of combat operations.
In order to rectify this situation UN logisticians were forced to hastily create a plan as the need arose.
