SUSTAINMENT: Elements Wrap-up & Quiz

As always, we covered a ton this week. The complete breadth of the elements of Army Sustainment - from transportation to medics to bands to contractor payments and everything in between. Let’s be honest, in between those, is… pretty much everything.

Let’s do a review, and take this week’s quiz!

Here’s a quick review of this week’s Big ideas and the Major Take-aways:

The Big Ideas:

Logistics is planning and executing the movement and support of forces.

Army logistics include the following—

Maintenance.

Transportation.

Supply.

Field services.

Distribution.

Operational contract support.

General engineering support.

Financial Management consists of:

Finance operations

Resource Management

Personnel Services consists of:

Human resources support.

Legal support.

Religious support.

Army band operations.

The Army Health System is composed of both health service support and force health protection

Principles of Army Health System

Functions of Army Medical Department

The major takeaways:

Logistics is planning and executing the movement and support of forces. It includes those aspects of military operations that deal with-design and development acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, and disposition of materiel acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities and acquisition or furnishing of services

Army logistics include the following—

• Maintenance.

• Transportation.

• Supply.

• Field services.

• Distribution.

• Operational contract support.

• General engineering support.

• Maintenance is all actions taken to retain materiel in a serviceable condition or to restore it to serviceability.

• Transportation units move sustainment from ports through the system to points of employment, and they retrograde materiel as required. Transportation and distribution are not the same thing!

• Supply provides the materiel required to accomplish the mission

• Field services includes aerial delivery, food service, shower and laundry, contingency fatality operations, and water purification. These services enhance unit effectiveness and mission success by providing for Soldier basic needs.

• Distribution is the operational process of synchronizing all elements of the logistics system to deliver the “right things” to the “right place” at the “right time” to support the geographic combatant commander. (Think supply and transportation combined. Most battalion FSCs and maneuver brigade BSBs have distro platoons or companies (typically A Co of a BSB).)

• Operational contract support encompasses the entire process of planning and obtaining supplies, services, and construction from commercial sources in support of combatant commander-directed operations.

• General engineering consists of those engineering capabilities and activities, other than combat engineering, that provide infrastructure and modify, maintain, or protect the physical environment.

Core competencies of financial management are:

• fund the force

• banking and disbursing

• pay support

• accounting support and cost management, and audit readiness.

Resource management is analyzing resource requirements and ensure commanders are aware of existing resource implications.

Personnel Services consists of:

• Human resources support.

• Legal support.

• Religious support.

• Army band operations

The principles of the Army Health System are conformity, proximity, flexibility, mobility, continuity, and control.

Army health services is part of two Warfighting Functions Health service support is part of the sustainment warfighting function, and force health protection is part of the protection warfighting

Health service support includes—

• Casualty care which encompasses a number of Army Medical Department functions, including—

  • Medical treatment (organic and area medical support).

  • Hospitalization.

  • Dental care (treatment aspects).

  • Behavioral health/ neuropsychiatric treatment.

  • Clinical laboratory services.

  • Treatment of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear patients.

• Medical evacuation (including medical regulating).

• Medical logistics (including blood management).

Take A Deep Dive into The Weekly Quiz here.