Logistics really do win wars

It’s easy to buy tourniquets and combat gauze, it is not so simple to ship them to a war zone. Very un-conveniently there is no battlefield Fedex. So how do you ship into war zone? 

I quickly figured out where to buy from but shipping internationally and then into an active war zone is to say the least daunting. Luckily, Olia had part of the answer. Her friend, Nataliia, was running a network of vehicles that would go from Poland into Ukraine. Between Nataliia and Olia there were enough contacts that we could move supplies to many parts of Ukraine. Now we needed to solve getting supplies into Poland. 

Moving items into Poland actually proved be the hardest part of the operation, Europe was being practically drained of medical supplies in the first few weeks. So United States was the only option. This proved to be a literal mountain because of the laws and fees surrounding importing and exporting. We spent hours online and on calls trying to figure out how to ship for low cost to Poland and there is not easy answer (there still is not). As the saying goes if was easy everyone would be doing it.  

Operation Blue Dawn has taught us a lot about logistics. So far we have been up to the challenge and we have not failed.  

~ Andrew ~