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Extracting Army Forces From the Field—A Logistician’s Perspectiveby Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Steinke, MNARN GField manual 3–0, Operations, defines retrograde as an “organized movement away from the enemy.” In order to set the conditions for a successful retrograde, Army forces must reduce, or drawdown, their operations and logistics footprints to the maximum extent and as early in the process as feasible. In a stability operation, when Army forces leave a theater, backfill by a coalition force may not always be possible. In those cases, responsibility for security may transfer to the host nation’s security forces, whether they are army, police, or border security forces. This transfer of security responsibility may take place in an unstable or fragile security environment.With these considerations in mind, I would like to address the logistics-related tasks Army forces must undertake to conduct a successful drawdown and retrograde.Specifically, I will discuss the following actions from a logistics planner’s viewpoint: avoiding negative images; determining what to retrograde; reducing commodities, vehicles, and weapons systems, both “white” and “green”; cleaning up bases; disposing of personal property; managing contractor-controlled equipment; coordinating transportation, maintenance, and port operations; disposing of barrier materials; and managing containers. The bottom line for the logistician is that the concepts discussed in this article are easy to describe, but they are extremely difficult to implement on the ground.Avoiding Negative ImagesThe first and foremost consideration during a military retrograde is the risk of creating negative images. One example of negative images generated by a retrograde operation was the abandoned vehicles and weapon systems left behind in Afghanistan by the Soviet military at the end of their occupation during the late 1980s that continued to litter the countryside.To avoid such negative images, logistics planners must consider a more resource-intensive retrograde operation. They must consider expending resources to recover and retrograde equipment and supplies, even in cases where it is not economically prudent to do so, in order to avoid leaving abandoned military equipment and supplies strewn across the countryside that would provide our enemies with a propaganda opportunity.