New recruit process wins recognition for MTMC.By MTMC MTMC Military Traffic Management Command (US DoD) MTMC Mount Marty College MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (stock symbol) MTMC Middle Tennessee Medical Center (Murfreesboro, TN) Command Affairs Traveling on official business with the Military Traffic Management Command A major command of the US Army, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated continental United States land transportation as well as common-user water terminal and traffic management service to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a , Gall Andrews often sees the results of her work in small knots The Small knot, or Oriental knot, is the simplest method of tying a man's necktie, though some claim the simple knot is an alternate name for the four-in-hand knot. The small knot is not very well-known despite its simplicity. of military recruits at the nation's airports. They are easy to spot: young men and women, clustered around a group leader carrying a big envelope. "I feel very proud of what they're doing," said Andrews. "We try to make their travel as stress-free as possible. "I'll go up to them and talk to them," said Andrews, "Some recruits are overwhelmed by the whole process, and I like to let them know there is help for them if they need it." Andrews, Chief, Recruit Movement Branch, is responsible for the movement of an average of 220,000 military recruits from the nation's 62 Military Enlistment Processing Stations to Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard basic training sites. It is a big job for six people. The team also supports enlistment stations in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. . Andrew and her team take pride in their work. A 30-year MTMC veteran. Andrews was working as a transporter before virtually all the recruits were born. The Recruit Movement Branch is one-stop shopping for recruits. Ticket lost? Weather delay--need a hotel room? Orders lost? Hungry? New recruits call a toll-free number and reach Andrew's team for assistance--or, in non-duty hours, MTMC's 24-hour-a-day operations center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. . The work of Andrews and her team has been recognized. Andrews was the Military Traffic Management Command representative on a special Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) 10-member team, which re-engineered the way recruits pay for their meals en route to their first duty station. That team is one of four winners in this year's "Government Executive" magazine's Travel Managers of the Year awards. Formerly, recruits used a cumbersome manual process to pay for meals on the way to their basic training site. "Restaurants collected and sent the tickets to the Defense Finance & Accounting Service," said the travel award citation, "which manually entered the information multiple times in order to reimburse re·im·burse tr.v. re·im·bursed, re·im·burs·ing, re·im·burs·es 1. To repay (money spent); refund. 2. To pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred. the restaurants." Not anymore. Now, recruits use meal checks--$6 for either breakfast or lunch, and $16 for dinner. This re-engineering saves the government $1.2 million annually. The cost of handling a meal check has dropped 93 percent--from $12.25 to 92 cents. "Judges were impressed with the program's improved accuracy and productivity, and its use of e-commerce tolls and partnership with industry," said the citation. After pilot tests for recruit processing centers in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Chicago and Milwaukee, the plan was adopted nationally. While traveling to temporary duty assignments at Fort Leonard Wood Fort Leonard Wood, U.S. army post, 71,000 acres (28,700 hectares), S central Mo.; est. 1940. It is one of the largest basic-training centers in the United States and also provides training for army engineers. , Mo., and Fort Knox Fort Knox [for Henry Knox], U.S. military reservation, 110,000 acres (44,515 hectares), Hardin and Meade counties, N Ky.; est. 1917 as a training camp in World War I. It became a permanent post in 1932. In the steel and concrete vaults of the U.S. . Ky., Andrews says she has watched recruits with meal checks at work. "It's really good for recruits," said Andrews. "They have a bigger selection of dining facilities and can go where they choose. The vendors are happy because they get paid very quickly." MTMC's recruit branch includes Debra Anderson, Joel Dickerson, Patty Proctor, Phyllis French, Richard Currier and Andrews. Andrew's 10-member team included representatives from the Defense Finance & Accounting Service, the Army, military processing centers, and Chase Manhattan Bank The Chase Manhattan Bank, now part of JPMorgan Chase, was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. The bank is headquartered in New York City. . |
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