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Yesterday, Lt. Col. John Redinger, CO, 833rd Transportation Battalion, during a detailed briefing of the unit's purpose and capabilities, shared that the unit would be relocating to the Port of Tacoma - given several outstanding hurdles still to clear.

The unit, as part of the Transportation Command, is responsible for all military cargo movement, except air.  Most of their tasks are actually accomplished by their business partners.  The relatively small organization of 29 (7 military and 22 civilian), provides deployment/ redeployment, distribution and water terminal operations for the Pacific Northwest.  Their major customer is JBLM, the Army's Principal Power Projection Platform west of the Rockies.

LC Redinger's assessment is that no other Port in the Pacific Northwest has as much capability to support DoD requirements as the Port of Tacoma.