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2 The Current Logistics Picture
2 The Current Logistics Picture
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"[be] responsible for the administration and support of forces assigned by him to a combatant command."4 In practical terms, the military departments have responsibilities to organize, train, and equip the forces they assign to the combatant commands, subject, however, to the instructions of the Secretary of Defense and, for certain activities, the combatant commanders.5 1 U.S.
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The Army Material Command has the mission for the Army to "develop and deliver global readiness solutions to sustain Unified Land Operations, anytime, anywhere."7 Logistics organizations and contractors, within the Army Materiel Command and as part of tactical formations, carry out the logistics missions. The Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)
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from their respective service chiefs to SOCOM. As part of this legislation, Congress also granted SOCOM a number of military department-like authorities, including specific budget authority to develop, acquire, field, and maintain special operations-peculiar capabilities; authority to perform acquisition and procurement activities 9 Cross-domain synergy is defined as "the complementary vice merely additive employment of capabilities across domains in time and space" (JCS, 2012, p.
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Although the SOCOM commander oversees and monitors personnel administration of the special operations force, SOCOM reimburses the respective services for actually paying and managing each service's SOF personnel within their respective service personnel systems. There are also specific agreements, negotiated as part of the original transfer of operational control, with each military department and/or service to provide service common equipment and specific logistics and sustainment support for their respective SOF personnel and units.
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. In OIF and OEF, combat operations were and still are being conducted on a daily basis from within a structure that integrates long-term base support operations, host nation support capabilities, and continuous expeditionary military operations.
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forces. Once it was determined that the forces would be remaining in the area for a substantial period of time, military construction elements and contractor forces began to convert expeditionary field bases into more static facilities.
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. Recognizing that planning figures for logistics demands during combat operations could not be tied to the theater demands seen in OIF and OEF, in 2008 CASCOM conducted an air-ground distribution Computer Assisted Map Experiment (CASCOM, 2008)
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28 FORCE MULTIPLYING TECHNOLOGIES FOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT TO MILITARY OPERATIONS TABLE 2-1 Daily Resupply Requirements for a FIB and HBCT from CAMEX 2008 (tons) Supply Class Description FIB HBCT Subtotal Class I Rations 12.08 23.20 35.28 Class II Clothing and textile 2.36 4.53 6.88 Class III Package petroleum 1.11 2.14 3.25 Class III Fuel 121.61 338.24 459.85 Class IV Barrier materials 3.33 6.40 9.72 Class IV Construction materials 2.84 5.45 8.29 Class V Ammunition 175.93 45.24 221.18 Class VI Personal demand 0.51 0.98 1.48 Class VII End items 6.22 11.95 18.17 Class VIII Medical supplies 0.21 0.41 0.62 Class IX Repair parts/batteries 3.22 6.18 9.40 Ice 6.35 12.20 18.55 Mail 1.66 3.20 4.86 Water 126.72 243.38 370.10 Total 464.15 703.47 1,167.63 Delivered by GLOC, class IIIB, class I (water)
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The picture might be very different if the scenario included deploying the force to the operating theater. As the Army moves toward 2020, it must either accept the heavy logistics burden shown above for more conventional warfare, assume that future warfare will not require that same amount of support, or take steps to ensure that, no matter the nature of the warfare, logistics requirements are reduced to a practical minimum to enable future forces to be efficiently and effectively supported with the supplies needed to win the wars they must fight.
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2012. Capstone Concept for Joint Operations: Joint Forces 2020.
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