Sustainment

Question 1

What publication covers Sustainment?

Answer 1

ADP/ADRP 4-0

Question 2

What is the sustainment war fighting function?

Answer 2

the related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolong endurance

Question 3

What are the 4 elements of sustainment?

Answer 3

logistics, health services, financial management, personnel services

Question 4

Which element of sustainment includes the band?

Answer 4

Personnel services

Question 5

What is logistics?

Answer 5

Planning and executing the movement and support of forces

Question 6

What are the sustainment principles?

Answer 6

Integration, Anticipation, Responsiveness, Simplicity, Economy, Survivability, Economy, Continuity, Improvisation

Question 7

What are the principles of logistics?

Answer 7

Integration, Anticipation, Responsiveness, Simplicity, Economy, Survivability, Economy, Continuity, Improvisation (Same as Sustainment)

Question 8

What are some of the elements of logistics?

Answer 8

maintenance, transportation, supply, field services, distribution, operational support, engineering support

Question 9

What are the 4 principles of personnel services?

Answer 9

Synchronization, Timeliness, Accuracy, Consistency

Question 10

What is unified action?

Answer 10

“The synchronization/coordination/integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve a unity of effort”

Question 11

What is joint interdependence?

Answer 11

The purposeful reliance of once Service on another to maximize the complementary and reinforcing effects of both.

Question 12

Which force is enabled by sustainment?

Answer 12

Operating Force

Question 13

What are generating forces and how to they relate to Sustainment?

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

How is the Band part of sustainment?

Answer 14

We are an element of personnel services, providing support to soldiers and their families.

Question 15

How is the Band part of the Operating Force?

Answer 15

We shape the OE and set the theatre for operations.

Question 16

What Army publication explains Operating and Generating forces in detail?

Answer 16

ADP 1 - The Army

Question 17

What are the 8 elements of combat power?

Answer 17

leadership, information,
command and control, movement and maneuver,
intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection

Question 18

What are the types of support included in Personnel Services? (4)

Answer 18

human resources support, legal support, religious support, and band support

Question 19

What is improvisation as it relates to Sustainment?

Answer 19

Improvisation is the ability to adapt sustainment operations to unexpected situations or circumstances affecting a mission

Question 20

What is Continuity as it relates to Sustainment?

Answer 20

Continuity is the uninterrupted provision of sustainment across all levels of war

Question 21

How is survivability involved in Sustainment?

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

What is economy as it relates to Sustainment?

Answer 22

Providing sustainment resources in an efficient manner that enables the commander to employ all assets to the greatest effect possible

Question 23

What is responsiveness in Sustainment?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What is Anticipation?

Answer 24

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.