Aaron Baisden

Serving as Company Commander and responsible for all things Logistics, Maintenance, Ordinance, Supply, and Administrative in nature.

• Serve as Detachment 2, Company Commander/Inspector Instructor for 10 permanent staffed Marines and managed their respective day to day, personal, and professional taskings.
• Served as Reserve's Officer in Charge thus supervising, planning, and ensuring health, welfare, and professional growth of 61 SMCR Marines.
• Served as Responsible Officer for the Gulfport, MS account valued at 3.1 million dollars that encompasses Motor Transport Maintenance, Supply, and Ordinance equipment.
• Supervise movement, and transportation of equipment and personnel through T3, valued at 6.4 million dollars.
• Manage, plan, and allocate sites budget accordingly to ensure all logistical, maintenance, and personal travel needs are met.
• Ensured 100% compliance for all active duty and reserve personnel for all annual training requirements.
• Oversee process and submission of sum 200 administration unit diary transactions for active duty and reserve personnel with a 98.1% acceptance rate.
• Ensured that all orders were created and approved for 40 Marines via Marine Resource Order Writing System in which training and education was conducted to include 100% payment for all travel.
• Validated and ensured processing of 13 new joins and 18 outbound Marines.
• Oversee appropriate execution of 150 funeral honors, wherein all fallen Marines received a proper burial and final resting salute.

Responsible for the planning execution, and conduct of all logistics, maintenance, and personnel support for Marine Raider Support Group, ensuring all capabilities and request were met within projected time and space.

• Served as Platoon Commander and oversee all logistics, maintenance, personnel, equipment, and operations, for Marine Raider Support Group Motor Transport Platoon.
• Ensured accountability, discipline, training, safety, and welfare of all Marines assigned to Motor Transport Platoon.
• Served as Platoon Commander and Motor Transport (MT) Officer and managed all MT logistical and Maintenance commitments while ensuring health and welfare of a fluctuating 75 Marine Platoon.
• Serve as technical advisor and subject matter expert for all logistics, maintenance, operations, and licensing requirements.
• Advise the Marine Raider Support Group Commanding Officer and all logistical matters pertaining to Motor Transport on ground transportation operation, maintenance, and employment.
• Served as Responsible Officer and ensured 100% accountability and operability of all assets valued at more than 17 million dollars.
• Serve as Licensing Officer for MARSOC, ensuring the Commanding Officer's policy and vision of licensing personnel is conducted safe and efficiently in which produced licenses for 1000 Marines being trained to operate all vehicle platforms.
• Ensured equipment readiness and planning for safe and efficient conduct of 1230 logistic missions, covering more than 167,000 miles while transporting more than 45,000,000 pounds of cargo and 3,000 passengers.
• Managed and tracked all maintenance type service requests in closing of 252 Corrective, 201 preventive and 196 calibration service requests that resulted in a 91% vehicle readiness during reporting period.
• Expediently, successfully, and safely, conducted wrecker support to recovery 22 inoperable vehicles in support of MARSOC units both locally and in various other CONUS locations.
• Planned, managed, and supported 7 named exercises with Marines and tactical equipment.

Served as 2d Maintenance Battalion's Logistics Officer, Environmental Compliance Officer, Container Management, Organic Platoon Commander, and Intermediate Maintenance Platoon Commander wherein often times managed several platoons of Marines with various mission sets at the premium level of operability.

• As Battalion Logistics Officer, he planned, coordinated and executed embarkation and movement of 2d Maintenance Battalion detachment's deployment to Fort Stewart, Georgia from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in support of 2d Tank Battalion deployed for training from 5 to 27 February 2018.
• Created and established standard operating procedure and embarkation representatives in each company to facilitate planning and preparation.
• Utilizing Marine Air Ground Task Force Deployment Support System II and Sea Service Deployment Module, and transferred sum 9,000 records between battalions, companies, and adjacent commands.
• As a result, and due to his oversite, his logistics team successfully handled the embarkation of over 55,000 pounds and 100,000 dollars' worth of equipment and supply in support of this training exercise.
• Additionally, he coordinated and planned support for 2d Maintenance Battalion's Trident Juncture efforts in Norway wherein he worked closely with multiple companies and commodity sections to ensure site support had the right equipment to house 150 Marines.
• Furthermore ensuring that the power plan provided sufficient and redundant power to facilitate all maintenance commodities throughout the duration of the exercise.
• In addition to supporting major battalion movements, he effectively managed various areas of logistical responsibilities. He successfully planned and supported four company level field exercises, one strategic mobility exercise, one Battalion Open House; in total he supported logistics of over 100,000 pounds of cargo and his team managed it without a single mishap.
• Furthermore, in order to facilitate smooth execution of these events, he learned and implemented streamlined request processes for the companies to utilize. With over 200 requests in Transportation Capacity Planning Tool, Common Logistics Command and Control System and email, he ensured all logistics requests from the supported companies were fulfilled in a timely manner through his Unit Movement Control Center and in close coordination with Organics Platoon and higher headquarters.
• As the Battalion Logistics Officer, he had collateral duties that covered other areas of logistics such as Battalion Environmental Compliance, Safety, and Container Management Programs. He educated himself and reached out to the subject matter experts to conduct five Environmental Compliance walk-throughs and two quarterly safety inspections in order to strictly adhere to the established orders and directives related to programs.
• Directly responsible, 2d Maintenance Battalion passed the Marine Corps Installations-East Safety Inspections, 2d MLG Environmental Inspection, and Marine Corps Base Lejeune Fire Inspections with zero findings. These superior results contributed to 2d Maintenance Battalion winning both the 2017 Marine Corps Achievement in Safety Award and the 2017 Secretary of Defense Maintenance Excellence Award.
• Concurrently, he was assigned as the Organics Platoon Commander where he led and developed 66 Marines across various different skill sets.
• Directly responsible with the accountability of 344 Principle End Items valued at 18,372,705 dollars. He employed these assets and overseen the conduct of 1,380 accident free missions, traversing 320,000 miles, transporting 8,960 passengers and 8,850,000 pounds of cargo.
• Under his leadership, the platoon conducted over 40 vehicle recovery missions, recovering 61 vehicles covering close to 1,000 miles. Additionally, CWO2 Baisden directed and supervised the execution of 63 heavy equipment run requests, consisting of 500 operational hours, and moving 150,000 pounds of cargo.

Lead, mentor, and trained Marines of Motor Transport Platoon in all applicable Marine Corps and Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) related matters. Supervised and ensured the quality and timeliness of repairs, procurement of repair parts performed, and logistical planning for key movements within the area of operation.

• Ordered, tracked, and expedited all repair parts required to maintain equipment sets at premium standards.
• Overseen all commodities and maintenance related programs for Motor Transport Maintenance (MTM) section including modifications, publications, and calibrations.
• Supervise the Quality Control section and make liaison with Intermediate Maintenance Activity (IMA) for equipment requiring induction and acceptance.
• Ensure all Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services (PMCS) on motor transport equipment are performed on time and recorded within the PMCS schedule.
• Instill a sense of urgency, professionalism and pride in craftsmanship, through example, close supervision, and positive leadership.
• Monitor all supply requisitions to ensure valid document numbers and shipping statuses exist on the MPR during weekly reconciliation with battalion supply.
• Maintained the battalion's motor transport assets, consisting of 224 pieces of rolling stock, at or above 94% readiness throughout the entire tenure.
• Supervised the completion of over 250 maintenance type service requests.
• Performed in-depth internal inspections while providing prudent guidance to key billet holders within the MTM section in preparation for the 2015 3D Marine Division Logistics Readiness Inspection. As a result, Motor Transport Platoon received a 96% overall compliance score while earning a 100% in 6 of 10 functional areas.
• Instrumental in the preparation and execution of Motor Transport FEX 15-3 in which a robust tactical vehicle asset was established and operated from, for a period of four days.