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Episode #48: Our first VIDEO podcast! Check out the links below. Property accountability can give anyone nightmares. The time it takes to conduct an inventory seems to be never-ending. Thus, we have continuously told ourselves, “there must be another way?” Well, gone are the days of the physical property book; Soldiers can now leverage mobile capabilities to track the condition and quantity of their equipment at a moment’s notice. And that is just one aspect of the new property accountability system called ParaLine that units will see arrive here in 2026. Therefore, to continue the HQDA G-4 miniseries, CPT Garett Pyle meets with COL Seamus Wilson, the Deputy Director of G44 Materiel Management Directorate on the HQDA G4 staff, to introduce ParaLine to the force, which will modernize property accountability across all Army components by enabling faster inventory processing, increased accuracy, minimized readability errors, updating in real time, and enable more time for training.

For a video introduction of ParaLine, check out: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/970577/paraline-app

Video podcasts available on our DVIDS page and on the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CASCOM1

Video Podcast Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_wuVhhgbA

Episode #47: Our next miniseries focuses on a variety of innovations and developments within the Army Sustainment Enterprise from the Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) G-4 office. Through the miniseries we will see how the G-4 is aligned with CSA’s Focus Area of Continuous Transformation by providing operational efficiency to the warfighter. To kick this miniseries off, CPT Garett Pyle meets with COL Adam Seibel, Division Chief Troop Support HQDA G-4, to discuss how the Army has listened to your concerns and has now modernized their Army Food Program Strategy and revolutionized their dining facilities, which will now be transitioning into Campus-Style Dining Venues (CSDV). So, grab a seat and get ready to fill your mind with some exciting new developments; more importantly we are going to discuss how your stomachs and bodies are going to be fueled better than they ever have been before.

Additional information can be found in the article “Army launching campus-style dining concept to enhance Soldier experience” by Samantha Tyler https://www.army.mil/article/288820/army_launching_campus_style_dining_concept_to_enhance_soldier_experience

Episode #46: The amount of data that we are surrounded by increases not only by the day but by the minute in our technology driven world. To adopt a data culture, CPT Garett Pyle meets with CPT Chris Sherrill, a Senior Instructor at the US Army Finance and Comptroller School, on how data should be a command responsibility and an inspectable item. Once we adjust our mindset on how we see and manage data, we can increase our lethality across all our operations.

Episode #45: To close out our Combat Training Center (CTC) miniseries, CPT Garett Pyle travels across to the other side of the United States into the Pacific Theater to meet with LTC Keith Twichell who serves as the Commander of the 4th Battalion, 196th Infantry Brigade and Task Force Cobra, Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) at Fort Shafter, HI. It is the U.S. Army Pacific’s premier training and readiness capability for Army, Joint, and Multinational forces in the Indo-Pacific theater. Their purpose is to support the Theater Army Campaign plan by building readiness, strengthening partnerships, and enhancing partner capacity and interoperability to prevail in crisis and conflict when called upon. JPMRC executes Regional CTC exercises to build combat-ready Army, Joint, and Multinational forces prepared to fight and win in jungle, island, coastal, mountainous, high altitude, and arctic environments.

The JPMRC Homepage: https://www.usarpac.army.mil/JPMRC/

Episode #44: On the next part of our Combat Training Center (CTC) miniseries, CPT Garett Pyle travels across the Atlantic Ocean to meet with LTC Andrew Horn, the Senior Sustainment Trainer, to focus on the Army’s only forward stationed CTC, the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) near Hohenfels, Germany. It is a Europe-based CTC that hosts a variety of annual training exercises with our European Allies and partners to train Brigade Combat Teams and Divisions in a theater-informed multi-domain battlefield by providing Joint and Combined Arms Exercises in the EUCOM AOR to increase the scale, capability, readiness, and interoperability of the United States, Allies, and partners.

The JMRC Homepage: https://www.7atc.army.mil/JMRC/