Sustainment Flashcards
What publication covers Sustainment?
ADP/ADRP 4-0
What is the sustainment war fighting function?
the related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolong endurance
What are the 4 elements of sustainment?
logistics, health services, financial management, personnel services
Which element of sustainment includes the band?
Personnel services
What is logistics?
Planning and executing the movement and support of forces
What are the sustainment principles?
Integration, Anticipation, Responsiveness, Simplicity, Economy, Survivability, Economy, Continuity, Improvisation
What are the principles of logistics?
Integration, Anticipation, Responsiveness, Simplicity, Economy, Survivability, Economy, Continuity, Improvisation (Same as Sustainment)
What are some of the elements of logistics?
maintenance, transportation, supply, field services, distribution, operational support, engineering support
What are the 4 principles of personnel services?
Synchronization, Timeliness, Accuracy, Consistency
What is unified action?
“The synchronization/coordination/integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve a unity of effort”
What is joint interdependence?
The purposeful reliance of once Service on another to maximize the complementary and reinforcing effects of both.
Which force is enabled by sustainment?
Operating Force
What are generating forces and how to they relate to Sustainment?
Generating forces consist of the Army organizations whose primary mission is to generate and sustain the operational Army’s capabilities. Generating forces are part of sustainment.
How is the Band part of sustainment?
We are an element of personnel services, providing support to soldiers and their families.
How is the Band part of the Operating Force?
We shape the OE and set the theatre for operations.
What Army publication explains Operating and Generating forces in detail?
ADP 1 - The Army
What are the 8 elements of combat power?
leadership, information,
command and control, movement and maneuver,
intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection
What are the types of support included in Personnel Services? (4)
human resources support, legal support, religious support, and band support
What is improvisation as it relates to Sustainment?
Improvisation is the ability to adapt sustainment operations to unexpected situations or circumstances affecting a mission
What is Continuity as it relates to Sustainment?
Continuity is the uninterrupted provision of sustainment across all levels of war
How is survivability involved in Sustainment?
Survivability is all aspects of protecting personnel, weapons, and supplies while simultaneously deceiving the enemy. Commanders often must rely on the use of redundant sustainment capabilities and alternative support plans in order to mitigate risks to sustainment resulting from hostile action.
What is economy as it relates to Sustainment?
Providing sustainment resources in an efficient manner that enables the commander to employ all assets to the greatest effect possible
What is responsiveness in Sustainment?
Responsiveness is the ability to react to changing requirements and respond to meet the needs to maintain support
What is Anticipation?
Anticipation is the ability to foresee operational requirements and initiate necessary actions that most appropriately satisfy a response without waiting for operations orders or fragmentary orders.
