ADP 4-0 Sustainment

Question 1

What does ADP 4-0 cover?

Answer 1

Sustainment

Question 2

What are the 3 major elements of sustainment?

Answer 2

Logistics, personnel services and health services

Question 3

What is the sustainment war fighting function?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is logistics?

Answer 4

Planning and executing of movement and support of forces

Question 5

What are some examples of logistics?

Answer 5

Transportation, supply, field services, distribution, operational contract support and general engineering support

Question 6

What are personnel services?

Answer 6

Sustainment functions that fund the force, maintain soldier and family readiness, promote moral and ethical values of the nation and enable the fighting qualities of the army

Question 7

What do personnel services consist of?

Answer 7

Human Resources, financial management operations, legal , religious, and band support

Question 8

What is health service support?

Answer 8

All support and services performed provided by the army medical department to promote, improve, or restore the mental and physical wellbeing of of personnel in the army

Question 9

What does health services consist of?

Answer 9

Casualty care, medical evacuation, and medical logistics

Question 10

What are the principles of sustainability?

Answer 10

Integration, anticipation, responsiveness, simplicity, economy, survivability and continuity.

Question 11

What is integration?

Answer 11

Combining all the elements of sustainment to operations assuring unity of command and effort

Question 12

What is anticipation?

Answer 12

The ability to foresee operational requirements and initiate actions without waiting for an operations order of frag order

Question 13

What is responsiveness?

Answer 13

The ability to react to changing requirements and respond to meet the needs to maintain support

Question 14

What is simplicity?

Answer 14

Process and procedures to minimize the complexity of sustainment

Question 15

What is economy?

Answer 15

Providing sustainment resources in an efficient manner to enable a CDR to employ all assets to achieve the greatest effect possible

Question 16

What is survivability?

Answer 16

Protecting personnel, weapons, and supplies while deceiving the enemy

Question 17

What is continuity?

Answer 17

The uninterrupted provision of sustainment across all levels of war

Question 18

What are the 5 principles that are unique to personal services?

Answer 18

Syronizatoion, timeliness, stewardship, accuracy, and consistency

Question 19

What is synchronization?

Answer 19

Ensuring personnel services are effectively aligned with military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum readiness and operation capabilities.

Question 20

What is timeliness?

Answer 20

Decision makers have an access to relevant personnel services information and analysis that support current and future operations

Question 21

What is stewardship?

Answer 21

Careful and responsible management of resources entrusted to the government in order to execute responsible governance

Question 22

What is accuracy?

Answer 22

Accuracy of information impacts the decisions made by CDRs and impacts soldiers and their families

Question 23

What is consistency?

Answer 23

Providing uniform and compatible guidance and support to forces across all levels of operations

Question 24

How is the theater army responsible for sustainment?

Answer 24

They are responsible for preparation and administration support for the army forces assigned or attached to the combatant CDR

Question 25

What does the the theater army HQ perform?

Answer 25

Functions that include reception, staging, onward movement, and integration, logistics over the shore operations and security coordination

Question 26

What is the role of theater sustainment command?

Answer 26

TSC serves as the senior army sustainment HQ for the theater army

Question 27

What does the TSC provide?

Answer 27

Mission command of units assigned attached or indeed its OPCON capabilities

Question 28

What is the expeditionary sustainment commands?

Answer 28

Force pooled assets and are under the TSC

Question 29

What does ESC do?

Answer 29

Plans, prepares, executes , and assesses sustainment theater opening and reception and onward movement operations for army forces theater

Question 30

What is the army’s distribution system?

Answer 30

A complex of facilities, installations, methods and procedures designed to receive, store, distribute, and control the flow of military resources to units.