Decorated US Army veteran Paul Hurley served as CEO of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command (1st TSC) of the US Army from 2015 to 2017. During his time with the 1st TSC, Major General Paul Hurley led 22,000 employees who were charged with providing logistical support to a diverse customer base of over 120,000 US and international personnel in Kuwait.
After going through several classroom and individual preparedness training sessions that included marksmanship, chemical, medical, and other preparatory tasks, the current members of the 1st TSC are now ready for deployment. The deployment ceremony was held at the Sadowski Center in Fort Knox, Kentucky on November 26, 2019. The team scheduled for deployment, known as Strategic Operations and Plans (SOaP) “Blue Team” will replace the SOaP “White Team” who will return to the US by December.
A team composed of soldiers and civilians from the 1st TSC is deployed to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait every six months. In addition to planning and strategic oversight, the 1st TSC soldiers are responsible for augmenting the expeditionary sustainment commands in the operational command post.
The 1st TSC has regularly deployed units to the area of responsibility (AOR) of the US Central Command since 2006. This AOR is a 6-million-square-mile area where sustainment operations are undertaken to ensure that the fighters in the field have enough supply and transportation capabilities necessary to accomplish their mission.
