Army regulations specify that suspenders are to be of a commercial design and are authorized for wear by males with all dress uniforms with the proviso that they are not visible when worn. Members of the Logistics branch wear Soldier Red suspenders. For your convenience, we offer two types of suspenders—clip-on and button-loop—for members of the Logistics branch. Our suspenders are manufactured to meet or exceed all relevant Army regulations.
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The officers-only Logistics branch traces its beginnings to the creation in 1993 of Functional Area 90 within the Operations Career Field to support multifunctional logisticians—officers who are well-versed in disciplines such as Supply Chain Management or Inventory Control that are essential components of several support branches, most notably Quartermaster, Transportation, and Ordnance. At the same time, however, these officers would still need to have highly developed functional expertise in areas such as Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Petroleum Operations.
Seeking a way to train officers as multifunctional logisticians from the start of their careers while still maintaining high degrees of proficiency in specialized areas, the Chief of Staff of the Army created the Logistics Corps, the Logistics Officer Corps, and the Logistics branch in 2006. The Logistics Corps comprises all Commissioned and Warrant Officers, as well as enlisted Soldiers, in three branches functionally related to Logistics—Ordnance, Quartermaster, and Transportation—as well as the new Logistics branch.
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The Logistics Officer Corps, on the other hand, consists only of officers (Commissioned and Warrant) from all four branches, while the Logistics branch is made up only of officers in the grades of Captain to Colonel (0-3) who have completed an appropriate course in multifunctional logistics.
When the Logistics branch was officially established in January 2008, that course was the Combined Logistics Captains Career Course or CLC3; it could be taken only by officers at the grade of Captain or higher in one of the three historical logistic branches. Today, the course is known as the Logistics Captains Career Course (LOG-C3).
The advantage of a Logistics branch is that O-3 to O-6 officers will not be limited to functional areas of expertise found only in the branch into which they were initially accessed. Instead, their branch of accession will serve as a secondary Area of Concentration in which they may cultivate functional skills.