CLS Employees Support Haiti Humanitarian Aid Effort

Coker Logistics Solutions, Inc. employees Clark Driscoll and Dan Matthews were directly involved in Department of Defense support of relief efforts in Haiti.

Dan Matthews is a support contractor for the US Army's LOGCAP or Logistics Civil Augmentation Program. LOGCAP is designed to provide contracted capabilities that might otherwise not be available to the warfighter.

During the initial deployment of Fort Bragg-based Army forces, Dan was tasked to assume the duties of desk officer for LOGCAP's Current and Future Operations in Haiti. In that capacity he wrote a daily Executive Summary that provided situational awareness for his Senior Executive Staff and Flag/General Officers in his chain of command, the US Army's Deputy Chief of Staff Logistics-G4, the Joint Chief of Staff Directorate of Logistics J4 and OSD Program Support within Logistics, Materiel and Readiness [L&MR]. The Executive Summary became a LOGCAP daily situation report containing information obtained from US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) and Joint Task Force (JTF) Haiti's reports, mission briefs and teleconferences. Additional data was drawn from other sources such as the United Nations and the US State Department. Dan's desk officer responsibilities did not end until the LOGCAP team returned to the US in the drawdown of US Forces.

Mr. Clark Driscoll provided support to the Joint Logistics Operations Center (JLOC) located in the National Joint Operations and Intelligence Center of the Joint Staff over the first four weeks of US military support. Specifically Mr. Driscoll: