Section 107- Logistics Combat Element Flashcards
Explain the mission of the Marine Logistics Group (MLG)
State the six functional and sub-functional areas of tactical logistics
• Marine Corps tactical-level logistics encompasses all of the logistic support activities performed at the tactical-level of war, to include combat service support. Tactical logistics is normally categorized in six functional areas:
1. Supply
2. Maintenance
3. Transportation
4. General Engineering
5. Health Services
6. Services
Define War Reserve Materiel (WRM).
• War Reserve Material (WRM) is defined as mission-essential principal end items, secondary items, and munitions required to attain operational objectives in the scenarios authorized for sustainability planning and other stockage objectives approved for programming in the Defense Planning Guidance. WRM inventories are acquired during peacetime. These inventories are flexible, and they provide expansion capability that can respond to spectrum regional contingencies, while minimizing investment in resources.
Discuss the differences between echelons of maintenance performed at organizational and intermediate ground equipment maintenance.
Organizational Maintenance 1st & 2nd) • Units owning equipment have organizational maintenance responsibilities. Proper maintenance is essential to sustain combat operations • Maintenance contact teams (MCTs) conduct recovery, evacuation, and repair. They determine whether an item is repairable at the recovery site. The MCT either fixes the item, requests parts and an intermediate level maintenance support team (MST) from the CSSE, or supervises the item evacuation Intermediate Maintenance ( 3rd & 4th) • The three elements of an intermediate maintenance concept are the MST, the CSSE forward maintenance detachment, and the FSSG intermediate maintenance activity (IMA) • The CSSE forward maintenance detachment is the element of a CSSD that operates the maintenance facilities and collection points far forward Depot Level (5th) • That maintenance performed on materiel requiring major overhaul or a complete rebuild of parts, assemblies, subassemblies, and end-items, including the manufacture of parts, modifications, testing, and reclamation as required
Explain the purpose and characteristics of the following support vehicles:
7-ton/Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR)
The MK23/MK25. It is used to utilize to transport equipment, material and or personnel
Variants:
Mk 23 (short bed – i.e. 16 feet – without winch) - this is the most basic version
Mk 25 (short bed, with winch)
Mk 27 (extended bed – i.e. 20 feet – without winch)
Mk 28 (extended bed, with winch)
Mk 29 (dump truck variant – without winch)
Mk 30 (dump truck variant – with winch)
Mk 36 (wrecker variant)
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)
The M998, M998A1, M1038 and M1038A1 HMMWVs are cargo/troop carrier configurations of the HMMWV family. The vehicles are equipped with basic armor and used to transport equipment, materials, and/or personnel.
The M1097 and M1097A1 HMMWVs are higher payload capacity cargo/troop carrier configurations of the HMMWV family.
The M1025, M1025A1, M1026 and M1026A1 HMMWVs are Armament Carrier configurations of the HMMWV family
The M1043, M1043A1, M1044, and M1044A1 HMMWVs are Armament Carrier configurations of the HMMWV family
The M1037 and M1042 HMMWVs are Shelter Carrier configurations of the HMMWV family.
The M996, M996A1, M997, M997A1, M1035 and M1035A1 HMMWVs are the Ambulance configuration of the HMMWV family
The M997/M997A1 are designated as Maxi- Ambulances and can transport up to 4 litter patients, 8 ambulatory patients, or a combination of litter and ambulatory patients.
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP)
The MaxxPro series of Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles incorporated a v-shaped hull design coupled with other survivability factors, being designed with crew protection in mind.
The MaxxPro was intended to withstand ballistic arms fire; mine blasts; IEDs; and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical environments.
The MaxxPro series featured a variety of armoring levels to fit various mission requirements. Different size variants further allowed the vehicle to be tailored to the mission.
Discuss the different classes of supplies.
All items necessary for the equipping, maintenance, and operation of a military command, including food, clothing, equipment, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials, and machinery of all kinds. For planning, management, and administrative purposes, supplies are divided into 10 classes:
1. Class I - Subsistence, including gratuitous health and welfare items
2. Class II - Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, organizational tool sets and tool kits, hand tools, and administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment.
3. Class III -Petroleum, oils, and lubricants
4. Class IV -Construction supplies.
5. Class V -Ammunition.
6. Class VI -Personal demand items (nonmilitary sales items).
7. Class VII -Major end items: a final combination of end products that is ready for its intended use.
8. Class VIII -Medical materiel, including medical-unique repair parts
9. Class IX -Repair parts and components
10. Class X -Materiel to support nonmilitary programs
State the responsibility of the following LCE components as they relate to MPF operations:
• Arrival and Assembly Area (AAA) - The AAA is an area of sufficient size and facilities to perform the complex tasks of arrival, offload, MPE/S distribution, assembly, and preparing the MAGTF for employment. Initial preparation of the AAA. Coordinated arrival and offload of MPE/S from the MPSRON in port, across a beach or a combination of both. Reception of the FIE. Movement and distribution of MPE/S. Security. Preparing the MAGTF for its employment mission.
• Arrival and Assembly Operations Group (AAOG) - The AAOG’s function is to coordinate and control arrival and assembly operations.
• Arrival and Assembly Operations Element (AAOE) - Each element within the MAGTF and NSE establishes an AAOE to perform the following tasks: Provide initial C2 activities within their assembly area until arrival of the element commander. Oversee preparations for combat
• Survey Liaison and Reconnaissance Party (SLRP) - The SLRP normally deploys to the AAA under the OPCON of the MAGTF.
• Aerial Port of Embarkation (APOE) - An airfield for sustained air movement at which personnel and material board or are loaded aboard aircraft to initiate an aerial movement. APOEs may serve as ports of debarkation for return passengers and retrograde cargo shipments
• Aerial Port of Debarkation (APOD) - An airfield for sustained air movement at which personnel and material are discharged from aircraft. APODs normally serve as ports of embarkation for return passengers and retrograde cargo shipments.
• Sea Port of Embarkation (SPOE) - The geographic point in a routing scheme from which cargo or personnel depart. This may be a seaport or aerial port from which personnel and equipment flow to a port of debarkation; for unit and nonunit requirements, it may or may not coincide with the origin.
• Sea Port of Debarkation (SPOD) - The geographic point at which cargo or personnel are discharged. This may be a seaport or aerial port of debarkation; for unit requirements; it may or may not coincide with the destination
• Port Operations Group (POG) - The POG is task-organized from the TSB’s beach and terminal operations company and the Navy cargo handling force (NCHF).
• Beach Operations Group (BOG) - The BOG is task-organized. It operates under the overall direction of the LFSP
• Off-Load Preparation Party (OPP) - The OPP is a temporary task organization under the OPCON of the MAGTF commander. It consists of maintenance, embarkation personnel, and equipment operators from all
• Arrival Airfield Control Group (AACG) - The AACG is responsible for the control and coordination of the offload of airlifted units and equipment
Departure Airfield Control Group (DACG)
• DACG and AACG exercises for landing support companies’ supporting establishment personnel associated with unit air movement exercises.
State the responsibility of the following Amphibious Ship to Shore Movement Organizations
• Navy Control Organization (NCO) - The Navy is responsible for control of the ship-to-shore movement of both waterborne and helicopter borne assault forces
• Landing Force Support Party (LFSP) - The ship-to-shore movement is a complex evolution that generates intensive activity under combat conditions. The LFSP is a temporary landing force organization composed of Navy and landing force elements tasked to provide initial combat support and CSS to the landing force during the ship-to-shore movement. Its mission is to support the landing and movement of troops, equipment, and supplies across the beaches and into HLZs. The LFSP facilitates the smooth execution of the landing plan. It is specifically task-organized to facilitate a rapid buildup of combat power ashore by ensuring an organized and uniform flow of personnel, equipment, and supplies over the beach in support of the landing force scheme of maneuver.
• Landing Force Operations Center (LFOC)- During the initial phases of the amphibious operation, the landing force operations center (LFOC) is the MAGTF commander’s command post afloat. The LFOC maintains communications with the LFSP elements.
• Navy Beach Group (NBG)- The naval beach group is a permanently organized naval command within an amphibious force comprised of a commander and staff, a beach masters unit, an amphibious construction battalion, and an assault craft unit, designed to provide an administrative group from which required naval tactical components may be made available to the attack force commander and to the amphibious landing force commander to support the landing of one division (reinforced). This group task-organizes beach party teams and or groups for specific tasks. It can make limited beach improvements to help in the landing and the evacuation of casualties and EPWs.
• The MLG (formally known as FSSG) provides general and direct support and sustained combat logistics above the organic capabilities of supported elements. Sustains the MAGTF in the functional areas of combat logistics during deployment and employment of the MEF and smaller, geographically separated MAGTFs in all levels of conflict.
Name The Battalions And Major Sub Units Of Each In 3d MLG?
Headquarters and Service Battalion
Materiel Readiness Battalion (Maintenance and Supply Battalions)
3d Transportation Support Battalion (Landing Support and Motor Transportation Battalions)
9th Engineering Support Battalion
3d Medical Battalion
Dental Battalion
• Maintenance battalion
Mission:
The maintenance battalion provides general support and intermediate (3d and 4th echelon) maintenance support for Marine Corps-furnished tactical ordnance, engineering, motor transport, communications electronics, and general support equipment of the MEF.
Tasks:
Provide 3d echelon maintenance on end items by means of component/subassembly replacement or repair.
Provide intermediate (4th echelon) maintenance in support of the secondary repairable program, including repairing and rebuilding components and subassemblies of end items.
Provide a tracked-vehicle evacuation capability
Provide calibration services for electronic and mechanical TMDE.
Provide organizational (2d echelon) and intermediate (3d and 4th echelon) maintenance on end items.
Provide technical assistance and overflow organizational (2d echelon) maintenance for supported units as directed by higher headquarters.
Provide intermediate maintenance and modification applications on in-stock equipment.
Provide technical inspection services, as required, in support of equipment maintenance programs of the MEF.
• Supply battalion [ref. (d), p. 5-29]
Mission:
The supply battalion provides general support supply support, except for bulk fuel and Navy-funded stock/ programs, for sustaining MAGTF operations
Tasks:
Provide supply support management, for the MLG and other MEF elements beyond organic capabilities of supported units, including the following stock control functions:
Management of the MEF’s special allowance training pool items and initial issue provisioning assets
Management of the MEF’s secondary repairables through the maintenance float
Technical management, data research, customer service, and general assistance to the MEF for supply matters
Supplying status management reports for the MEF, as required
Interface for the MEF with financial and maintenance management systems.
Provide contracting support and cross servicing services for supported units, as required.
Provide a warehousing capability in support of the MEF
Provide accounting for classes I, II, IV, VII, VIII, and IX supplies, initial issue provisioning assets, and authorized levels of war reserve.
Provide subsistence support to the MEF, including operation of class I subsistence dumps and storage, issue, and accounting for subsistence items.
Provide receipt, storage, and forwarding of class III (packaged) supplies.
Provide receipt, storage, issue, and accounting functions for class V items.
Provide technical assistance in receipt, storage, assembly, and provision of nuclear ordnance.
Provide for the receipt, storage, issue, and organizational (2d echelon) and intermediate (3d and 4th echelon) maintenance support for class VIII supplies and equipment.
Provide intermediate-level shop stores issue points for the MEF
Provide procurement services for the MEF for items decentralized by the integrated materiel manager.
Provide packing, preservation, and packaging (PP&P) services
• Engineer support battalion [ref. (d), 5-
Mission:
The engineer support battalion provides general engineering support of an expeditionary nature to the MEF, including survivability, counter mobility, and mobility enhancements; EOD; and general support supply support incident to the handling, storage, dispensing of bulk class I (water) and bulk class III and III (A) items
Tasks:
Conduct engineering reconnaissance that is necessary to support the battalion’s mission or other engineering needs of the MEF.
Construct, improve, and maintain airfields, including expeditionary airfields.
Construct, improve, and maintain encampments, LCEAs, and other MEF-required support facilities by using available material or pre-engineered structures.
Conduct mobility enhancement operations, including the construction, improvement, and maintenance of lines of communications and main supply routes.
Provide bulk class III and III (A) fuel support, including receipt, storage, and dispensing of bulk fuel products.
Provide utilities support, including mobile electric power beyond supported units’ capabilities and electrical power distribution within camps and LCEAs.
Provide water purification and bulk class I (water) storage and dispensing for the MLG and other elements of the MEF when requirements exceed supported units’ capabilities.
Provide survivability enhancements, including the construction of protective structures.
Install and/or supervise other units in the installation of standard and nonstandard, fixed-panel and floating bridging, including planning and controlling bridging operations in support of MEF mobility requirements.
Provide bath and laundry services beyond supported units’ capabilities.
Provide EOD support, as required, to the MEF.
Construct field-expedient deception devices.
Conduct counter mobility operations through installation of obstacles and barriers, including explosive and non-explosive obstacles.
Conduct mobility operations, including breaching, reducing, and removing explosive or non-explosive obstacles. Provide specialized demolition operations beyond supported units’ capabilities
• Medical battalion [ref. (d), 5-67]
Mission:
The medical battalion provides direct and general support medical support to the MEF
Tasks:
Provide health care through the 2d echelon of medical care, including initial resuscitative care, resuscitative surgery, and temporary hospitalization of casualties, to the MEF.
Provide medical regulating services for the MEF.
Provide preventive medicine support to the MEF.
Assist in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of medical intelligence.
Provide the medical elements for the establishment of casualty decontamination and treatment stations. Provide medical support for management of mass casualties and combat stress casualties
• Dental battalion [ref. (d), 5-75]
Mission:
The dental battalion provides general support dental health care to the MEF.
Tasks:
Provide a comprehensive program of dental health care for the MEF.
Coordinate MEF dental health care support requirements.
Provide dental detachments, as required, to support MAGTFs smaller than a MEF.
Supervise implementation of dental health care delivery programs for the MEF
What is the LCE of:
Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)? o Combat Logistic Battalion (CLB) Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB)? o CLR is the LCE for the MEB Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF)? o The LCE for a MEF is a MLG
State the six functional and sub-functional areas of tactical logistics
• Marine Corps tactical-level logistics encompasses all of the logistic support activities performed at the tactical-level of war, to include combat service support. Tactical logistics is normally categorized in six functional areas:
State the responsibility of the following LCE components as they relate to MPF operations:
• Arrival and Assembly Area (AAA) - The AAA is an area of sufficient size and facilities to perform the complex tasks of arrival, offload, MPE/S distribution, assembly, and preparing the MAGTF for employment. Initial preparation of the AAA. Coordinated arrival and offload of MPE/S from the MPSRON in port, across a beach or a combination of both. Reception of the FIE. Movement and distribution of MPE/S. Security. Preparing the MAGTF for its employment mission.
• Arrival and Assembly Operations Group (AAOG) - The AAOG’s function is to coordinate and control arrival and assembly operations.
• Arrival and Assembly Operations Element (AAOE) - Each element within the MAGTF and NSE establishes an AAOE to perform the following tasks: Provide initial C2 activities within their assembly area until arrival of the element commander. Oversee preparations for combat
• Survey Liaison and Reconnaissance Party (SLRP) - The SLRP normally deploys to the AAA under the OPCON of the MAGTF.
• Aerial Port of Embarkation (APOE) - An airfield for sustained air movement at which personnel and material board or are loaded aboard aircraft to initiate an aerial movement. APOEs may serve as ports of debarkation for return passengers and retrograde cargo shipments
• Aerial Port of Debarkation (APOD) - An airfield for sustained air movement at which personnel and material are discharged from aircraft. APODs normally serve as ports of embarkation for return passengers and retrograde cargo shipments.
• Sea Port of Embarkation (SPOE) - The geographic point in a routing scheme from which cargo or personnel depart. This may be a seaport or aerial port from which personnel and equipment flow to a port of debarkation; for unit and nonunit requirements, it may or may not coincide with the origin.
• Sea Port of Debarkation (SPOD) - The geographic point at which cargo or personnel are discharged. This may be a seaport or aerial port of debarkation; for unit requirements; it may or may not coincide with the destination
• Port Operations Group (POG) - The POG is task-organized from the TSB’s beach and terminal operations company and the Navy cargo handling force (NCHF).
• Beach Operations Group (BOG) - The BOG is task-organized. It operates under the overall direction of the LFSP
• Off-Load Preparation Party (OPP) - The OPP is a temporary task organization under the OPCON of the MAGTF commander. It consists of maintenance, embarkation personnel, and equipment operators from all
• Arrival Airfield Control Group (AACG) - The AACG is responsible for the control and coordination of the offload of airlifted units and equipment
Departure Airfield Control Group (DACG)
• DACG and AACG exercises for landing support companies’ supporting establishment personnel associated with unit air movement exercises.
State the responsibility of the following Amphibious Ship to Shore Movement Organizations
• Navy Control Organization (NCO) - The Navy is responsible for control of the ship-to-shore movement of both waterborne and helicopter borne assault forces
• Landing Force Support Party (LFSP) - The ship-to-shore movement is a complex evolution that generates intensive activity under combat conditions. The LFSP is a temporary landing force organization composed of Navy and landing force elements tasked to provide initial combat support and CSS to the landing force during the ship-to-shore movement. Its mission is to support the landing and movement of troops, equipment, and supplies across the beaches and into HLZs. The LFSP facilitates the smooth execution of the landing plan. It is specifically task-organized to facilitate a rapid buildup of combat power ashore by ensuring an organized and uniform flow of personnel, equipment, and supplies over the beach in support of the landing force scheme of maneuver.
• Landing Force Operations Center (LFOC)- During the initial phases of the amphibious operation, the landing force operations center (LFOC) is the MAGTF commander’s command post afloat. The LFOC maintains communications with the LFSP elements.
• Navy Beach Group (NBG)- The naval beach group is a permanently organized naval command within an amphibious force comprised of a commander and staff, a beach masters unit, an amphibious construction battalion, and an assault craft unit, designed to provide an administrative group from which required naval tactical components may be made available to the attack force commander and to the amphibious landing force commander to support the landing of one division (reinforced). This group task-organizes beach party teams and or groups for specific tasks. It can make limited beach improvements to help in the landing and the evacuation of casualties and EPWs.
- Supply
- Maintenance
- Transportation
- General Engineering
- Health Services
- Services
Define War Reserve Materiel (WRM).
• War Reserve Material (WRM) is defined as mission-essential principal end items, secondary items, and munitions required to attain operational objectives in the scenarios authorized for sustainability planning and other stockage objectives approved for programming in the Defense Planning Guidance. WRM inventories are acquired during peacetime. These inventories are flexible, and they provide expansion capability that can respond to spectrum regional contingencies, while minimizing investment in resources.
Discuss the differences between echelons of maintenance performed at organizational and intermediate ground equipment maintenance.
Organizational Maintenance (1st & 2nd) • Units owning equipment have organizational maintenance responsibilities. Proper maintenance is essential to sustain combat operations • Maintenance contact teams (MCTs) conduct recovery, evacuation, and repair. They determine whether an item is repairable at the recovery site. The MCT either fixes the item, requests parts and an intermediate level maintenance support team (MST) from the CSSE, or supervises the item evacuation Intermediate Maintenance ( 3rd & 4th) • The three elements of an intermediate maintenance concept are the MST, the CSSE forward maintenance detachment, and the FSSG intermediate maintenance activity (IMA) • The CSSE forward maintenance detachment is the element of a CSSD that operates the maintenance facilities and collection points far forward Depot Level (5th) • That maintenance performed on materiel requiring major overhaul or a complete rebuild of parts, assemblies, subassemblies, and end-items, including the manufacture of parts, modifications, testing, and reclamation as required
7-ton/Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR)
The MK23/MK25. It is used to utilize to transport equipment, material and or personnel Variants: Mk 23 (short bed – i.e. 16 feet – without winch) - this is the most basic version Mk 25 (short bed, with winch) Mk 27 (extended bed – i.e. 20 feet – without winch) Mk 28 (extended bed, with winch) Mk 29 (dump truck variant – without winch) Mk 30 (dump truck variant – with winch) Mk 36 (wrecker variant)
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)
The M998, M998A1, M1038 and M1038A1 HMMWVs are cargo/troop carrier configurations of the HMMWV family. The vehicles are equipped with basic armor and used to transport equipment, materials, and/or personnel.
The M1097 and M1097A1 HMMWVs are higher payload capacity cargo/troop carrier configurations of the HMMWV family.
The M1025, M1025A1, M1026 and M1026A1 HMMWVs are Armament Carrier configurations of the HMMWV family
The M1043, M1043A1, M1044, and M1044A1 HMMWVs are Armament Carrier configurations of the HMMWV family
The M1037 and M1042 HMMWVs are Shelter Carrier configurations of the HMMWV family.
The M996, M996A1, M997, M997A1, M1035 and M1035A1 HMMWVs are the Ambulance configuration of the HMMWV family
The M997/M997A1 are designated as Maxi- Ambulances and can transport up to 4 litter patients, 8 ambulatory patients, or a combination of litter and ambulatory patients
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP)
The MaxxPro series of Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles incorporated a v-shaped hull design coupled with other survivability factors, being designed with crew protection in mind.
The MaxxPro was intended to withstand ballistic arms fire; mine blasts; IEDs; and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical environments.
The MaxxPro series featured a variety of armoring levels to fit various mission requirements. Different size variants further allowed the vehicle to be tailored to the mission.
Discuss the different classes of supplies.
All items necessary for the equipping, maintenance, and operation of a military command, including food, clothing, equipment, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials, and machinery of all kinds. For planning, management, and administrative purposes, supplies are divided into 10 classes:
- Class I - Subsistence, including gratuitous health and welfare items
- Class II - Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, organizational tool sets and tool kits, hand tools, and administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment.
- Class III -Petroleum, oils, and lubricants
- Class IV -Construction supplies.
- Class V -Ammunition.
- Class VI -Personal demand items (nonmilitary sales items).
- Class VII -Major end items: a final combination of end products that is ready for its intended use.
- Class VIII -Medical materiel, including medical-unique repair parts
- Class IX -Repair parts and components
- Class X -Materiel to support nonmilitary programs
