As a logistician, I was skimming over the comments and have a few more suggestions for you.

1. Become best friends with your Brigade Mobility Warrant.  That transporter is critical in getting your gear moved from Point A to Point B.  You are the go-between between your Unit Movement Officers (usually your Company XOs) and the Mobility Warrant when deployments/rotations go down.

2. Become friendly with the Division Transportation Officer and Installation Transportation Office(r).  They’re Division staff, but building a face-to-face relationship will ensure your Battalion is taken care of. The DTO is a KD position for a transportation Major and they are hand picked based on their training background/BCT experience.  They will have visibility on everything moving in the Division area.   Along the same lines, the ITO is extremely important. They are the ones getting you route clearance for your NTC/JRTC rotation — permission required to move military equipment on the federal highway system. FYSA, the DTO/ITO is coordinating with an Army Reserve liaison in the governor’s office to do this.

3. The Brigade SPO. Make sure any movement or distribution operation is being tracked by the SPO.  Tag team this with the FSC CDR assigned to provide direct support to your battalion. This is especially important for ensuring enough MHE support to your training events. Nothing is more annoying than manually downloading MRE boxes when the forklift doesn’t show up.

4. Understand logistics below Brigade level is all about distribution, a quartermaster function.  Focus on POL distribution, retail and throughput.  Ammo distribution is essentially identical. Understand the benefit of a trailer transfer point in the event you don’t have enough trucks to support yourself (and you never will).  Above Brigade level, logistics is transportation-driven.  Transportation is inherently strategic.

5. You and the S1 have the most thankless job on the staff. When you’re doing it correctly, no one notices or cares. When you screw up, the wrath of the Gods falls on you.  Have fun.