ADP 4-0 / ADRP 4-0 – Sustainment

Question 1

What ADP/ADRP covers Sustainment?

Answer 1

ADP/ADRP 4-0.

Question 2

What is the sustainment warfighting function?

Answer 2

The sustainment warfighting function is related tasks and systems that provide support and services to
ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance.

Question 3

What is logistics?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What are personnel services?

Answer 4

Personnel services are sustainment functions that man and fund the force, maintain Soldier and Family
readiness, promote the moral and ethical values of the nation, and enable the fighting qualities of the
Army.

Question 5

What are the sustainment principles?

Answer 5

 Integration.
 Anticipation.
 Responsiveness.
 Simplicity.
 Economy.
 Survivability.
 Continuity.
 Improvisation.

Question 6

What are the principles of personnel services?

Answer 6

 Synchronization.
 Timeliness.
 Stewardship.
 Accuracy.
 Consistency.

Question 7

What is the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and
nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve a unity of effort?

Answer 7

Unified action.

Question 8

What is the purposeful reliance by one Service’s forces on another Service’s capabilities to
maximize the complementary and reinforcing effects of both?

Answer 8

Joint interdependence.

Question 9

What are generating forces?

Answer 9

Generating forces consist of those Army organizations whose primary mission is to generate and sustain
the operational Army’s capabilities for employment.

Question 10

What are operating forces?

Answer 10

Operating forces are those forces whose primary missions are to participate in combat and the integral
supporting elements thereof.