When the Department of Defense deployed medical teams to cities across the country at the request of local civilian leadership they also needed life support sustainment and contracting capability for those teams. Enter Forward Assessment Sustainment Teams ( FAST ). Beginning in early April, the 1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade supported FAST missions in Dallas, Detroit, Chicago and most recently Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Teams have now returned to Fort Riley and have completed quarantine periods.
Team make-up included a contracting officer, a medic, personnel specialist and a commodity and management specialist at a minimum to handle the varied tasks required of a FAST mission. The teams ranged in size from 5 to 11 Soldier, depending on the requirements of the specific mission.