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Article Excerpt
A Brief History of the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command
Organizational Development
The Military SDDC traces its organizational lineage to the Army's former Office of the Chief of Transportation, established 31 July 1942. Fourteen years later, the Department of Defense (DoD) established a separate agency to carry out traffic management functions. On 1 May 1956, SDDC's original mandate began when the Secretary of Defense designated the Secretary of the Army as the single manager for military traffic within the United States (U.S.).
1 July 1956, the Army established the Military Traffic Management Agency (MTMA) to carry out those single-manager functions. Originally, MTMA did not operate military ocean terminals, a function held by the U.S. Army Transportation Terminal Command (a Transportation Corps component).
The original MTMA did not feature port commands but did include five regional offices:
* Eastern (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
* Western (Oakland, California)
* Central (St. Louis, Missouri)
* Southwestern (Dallas, Texas)
* Southeastern (Atlanta, Georgia)
This arrangement essentially lasted until 1965. Only the Oakland headquarters remained the same after that time. MTMA and then Defense Traffic Management System (DTMS) called the field offices "traffic regions."
MTMA lasted only five and a half years. Then, as part of his overall DoD restructuring, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara transferred the organization to the newly established Defense Supply Agency (DSA). On 1 January 1962, he re-designated MTMA as the Defense Traffic Management Service. The Army Materiel Command (AMC) then took over the military ocean terminals. However, DoD and congressional concerns over duplication in military logistics soon led to further reorganizations. After a detailed reexamination of the Defense Transportation System, McNamara designated the Secretary of the Army as the single manager for...
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