Loren Schriner promoted to Colonel

September officer promotions announced

In this April 16, 2010 photo from the Army news,  outgoing Commander of the 215th Brigade Support Battalion Lt. Col. Loren Schriner, stands at attention before the changing of command ceremony where he will hand over his command duties to Lt. Col. James Smith.
This month Lt. Col. Loren Schriner a 1984 graduate of Blue Hill High school was promoted to the rank of Colonel.  Loren and his family lives in Chesterfield, VA.
Schriner is the son of Paul Schriner and the late Wanda Schriner of Guide Rock. 
In an article in the Army Times in 2010 Schriner spoke about this service.
Then Lt. Col. Schriner who was commander of the 3rd HBCT's 215th Brigade Support Battalion and responsible for supplying and maintaining the brigade combat team, also had a second job during the brigades's deployment.  He mentored and assisted the 2nd Iraqi Army (IA) Division logisticans toward achieving a modern logistics system.  The downside was the commute.  The more distant IA division headquarters was situated more than two hours away by MRAP and he made a trip to visit one or the other division about twice a week. iennvvvn
 

 

“This is my third rotation to Iraq, and the thing that is different this time is steady improvement of the IA. (Iraqi Army) This rotation, they have gone from night to day,” Schriner told the Army news. “Think about what we in the U.S. Army take for granted, such as using the Internet to order parts. Well, the IA is doing that now, and that’s a major step.”

LTC Schriner explained that the IA divisions have established a “full-circle logistics system,” which in oversimplified terms means that a unit orders a part, the order is accepted and processed by the various levels of the system, and the part gets to the unit to

complete the circle. “They don’t use an American solution; it’s their system, and we just help them fix it,” he said. “That’s been unique during our rotation.”

It is a significantly different environment from his previous deployment. “During 2006–07, I was giving them food, water and fuel and fixing their vehicles for them,” he said. “I have not given them a gallon of gas or a single repair part in the past 11 months.”

The thing the Iraqi army needs now is what it has needed most all along, according to LTC Schriner: “Time.”