SUSTAINMENT

US ARMY COMBINED ARMS SUPPORT COMMAND

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 1943 Past to Present
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1962 The Army’s doctrine for sustainme

in support of Unified Land Operatio
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1968 2012
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2009
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1940 -1967: FM 100-10, Field Service Regulation, Administration
1968- 2002: FM 100-10, Combat Service Support 2003
2003-2008: FM 4-0, Combat Service Support
2009-2011: FM 4-0, Sustainment
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What is Sustainment?
Sustainment is the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service
support necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion:
Elements of Sustainment
Logistics Gives Forces:
• Maintenance
• Transportation
• Supply Operational Reach
• Field Services
• Distribution
• Operational Contract Support
• General Engineering Support
Personnel Services
• Human Resource Support Freedom of Action
• Financial Management Operations
• Legal Support
• Religious Support
• Band
Health Service Support
• Casualty Care
• Medical Evacuation Endurance
• Medical Logistics
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What is Sustainment? (cont.)

One of the eight elements of Combat Power: Combat power is the total means of destructive,
constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit or formation can apply at a
given time.
Decisive Action
- Offensive Task
Combat Power - Defensive Task
- Stability Task
- Defense Support of
Civil Authorities Task

generates and
Sustainment

Maintains --
warfighting function

- Logistics
Sustainment

- Personnel Services
- Health Service Support

The sustainment warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that provide
support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and
prolong endurance.
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Army’s doctrine for sustainment of Unified Land Operations

ADRP

Field
Manuals

FM FM FM FM FM FM FM FM FM
1-0 1-04 1-05 1-06 4-01 4-02 4-30 4-40 4-95

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Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Sustainment
Sustainment Warfighting Function
Principles of Sustainment
Principles of Personnel Services
Principles of Army Health System
Chapter 2 Sustainment of Unified Land Operations
Strategic Context
Joint Interdependence
Army Sustainment Responsibilities
Role of Generating Forces
Role of Operating Forces
Intergovernmental and Interagency Coordination
Sustainment in Multinational Coordination
Chapter 3 Sustainment of Decisive Action
Operational Context
Mission Command of Sustainment Operations
Sustainment Planning
Operational Reach
Freedom of Action
Endurance
Chapter 4 Elements of Sustainment
Logistics
Personnel Services
Health Service Support
Glossary
References
Index

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What it does Informs our unified

action partners
Serves as a
doctrinal link
ADRP 3-0
Unified Land
Operations

Guides leader
and Soldier Doctrine for the support of
development operations in a joint and
multinational environment
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Principles of Sustainment

Sustainment/Logistics Fundamental principles provide the Heath Service Support

foundation upon which Army forces
• Integration guide their actions. • Conformity
• Anticipation
• Responsiveness • Proximity
• Simplicity • Flexibility
• Economy • Mobility
• Survivability
• Continuity • Continuity
• Improvisation Personnel Services • Control
• Synchronization
• Timeliness
• Stewardship
• Accuracy
• Consistency

Principles of sustainment instill confidence in commanders that sustainment will be there when needed

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Sustainment is inherently joint

ADP 3-0
Anticipated Operational Environment Unified Action
• US must project power into region, opposed
• US must seize at least one base of Central idea: synchronization, coordination,
operations (maybe more) and/or integration of the activities of governmental
• Threat of WMD will require dispersal of US and non-governmental entities with military
forces and decentralized operations operations to achieve unity of effort (JP 1)
• Size of theater (space and population) will
exceed US ability to control

Sustainment is joint interdependent Sustainment of Unified Action

Sustainment in Joint Operations
• Sustainment is the provision of logistics
and personnel services necessary to
maintain and prolong operations until
successful mission completion.
• Sustainment in joint operations provides
the JFC flexibility, endurance, and the ability
to extend operational reach. (JP 4-0)
Joint Interdependence: The purposeful reliance by
Service forces on another Service capabilities
Unified Land Operations
Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a
position of relative advantage in sustained land combat in
order to create the conditions for favorable conflict
resolution.

Decisive Action
Army Contribution to Joint
Interdependence
• Theater Opening Capability
• Joint Deployment and Distribution
Enterprise (JDDE) US Air Force US Navy
• Common User Logistics (CUL) • Strategic Lift • JLOTS
• Army Support to Other Services • Aerial Delivery • Port Construction
(ASOS) • Aero Medical Evacuation • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
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Army Title 10 Responsibility and other Authorities

Army Title 10 Responsibility Unity of Effort

• Recruiting
• Organizing 12 Elements
• Supplying Sustainment of Title 10
• Equipping
• Training
related Joint Interdependence
• Servicing responsibilities Reliance by one Service forces on another
• Mobilizing Services capabilities.
• Demobilizing Options
• Administering (incl morale and welfare) • Executive Agent. Specific responsibilities, functions
• Maintaining and authorities to provide defined levels of support
• Construction, outfitting repair of mil equip • Lead Service. Specific common user logistics
• Construction, maintenance, repairs of buildings functions including planning and execution
utilities, acquisition of real property • Subordinate Logistics Command. Joint logistics
responsibilities to Component Command to establish a
joint logistics command
Directive Authority for Logistics
• Combatant Commanders’ authority to delegate
common support capability.
• May assign responsibility to Component Command And/Or
for Joint Logistics
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Joint Logistics Objective: Sustainment functions are integrated across all echelons
Joint Deployment of command; remain responsive, regionally aligned and relevant to
Distribution Enterprise
ASA-ALT the global force, while optimizing and leveraging all capabilities
among unified action partners to maximize the efficient use of
sustainment resources, enabling freedom of action, operational
reach and prolonged endurance.
Lead Materiel
Integrator Legend:
AFSB: Army Field Support Brigade
AMC AFSBn: Army Field Support Battalion

Sustainment DFAS APS: Army Prepositioned Stocks

AMC: Army Materiel Command
Principles USAFMCOM HRC ASC: Army Sustainment Command
BSB: Brigade Support Battalion
• Integrations DLA OSG CSB: Contracting Support Battalion
CSSB: Combat Sustainment Support Battalion
• Anticipation DFAS: Defense Finance and Accounting Service
• Responsiveness USASAC ESC: Expeditionary Sustainment Command
FMC: Financial Management Center
• Simplicity ASC/DMC HRC: Human Resources Command
• Economy HRSC: Human Resources Support Center
MLMC: Medical Logistics Management Center
• Survivability
• Continuity ACC MEDCOM OSG: Office of the Surgeon General
SDDC SBDE: Sustainment Brigade
• Improvisation TRANSCOM MLMC SDDC: Surface Deployment and Distribution
Command
TSC: Theater Sustainment Command
FMC USAFMCOM: US Army Financial

Sustainment Functions HRSC Management Command

USASAC: US Army Security Assistance
• Logistics AFSB Command

• Personnel Services Operational link to the

• Health Services Support TSC APS CSB materiel enterprise

AFSBn MED BDE

End State ESC

Sustainment Concept
• Sustains Unified Land Operations
• Relies on joint interdependence
• Leverages unified action partners
• Leverages joint capabilities to maximize efficient use of resources

SBDE CSSB
BSB
Freedom of Action, Operational Reach, Prolonged Endurance
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Operational Reach
The distance and duration across which a unit can successfully employ military capabilities.

Theater Opening
RSOI

Prepositioned Stocks

Port Opening
 Sea
 Aerial Basing

Port Closing
Theater Closing Drawdown
Redeployment
USAMC
R2TF
DLAST
TSC

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Freedom of Action
Freedom of action enables commanders with the will to act, to achieve operational initiative
and control and maintain operational tempo.

Aerial
Host nation agreements Delivery Health Service
Operational Contract Support
Offense
Sustainment commanders enable freedom of action by preparing and Defense
putting in place sustainment activities to conduct decisive action Stability
Defense of Civil Authority
Religious Support
Distribution
Systems

Explosive
Ordnance
Disposal
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Endurance
“The endurance of Army forces is primarily a function of its sustainment.”
Logistics Planning and executing the movement and support of forces.
• Maintenance It includes:
• Transportation • design, development, acquisition, storage, movement,
• Supply distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of
• Field Services materiel
•Distribution • acquisition or construction, maintenance operation, and
• Operational Contract Support disposition of facilities
• General Engineering Support • acquisition or furnishing of services
Personnel Services
• Human Resources Sustainment functions that:
• Financial Management • man and fund the force
• Legal Support • maintain Soldier and Family readiness
• Religious Support • promote the moral and ethical values of the nation
• Band Support • enable fighting qualities of the Army

Health Service Support All support and services performed, provided, and arranged
• Casualty Care by the Army Medical Department promote, improve,
• Medical Evacuation conserve, or restore the mental and physical well being of
• Medical Logistics Army personnel

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What has changed

• Supports new Army operational concept of Unified FM 4-0
Land Operations Sustainment
• Manual centered on what sustainment provides:
 Operational reach
 Freedom of action DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for
release; distribution is unlimited.

 Prolonged endurance HEADQUARTERS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

• Builds upon previous FM 4-0 discussion of Joint

Interdependence
• Adds new discussion on Theater Closing
• Provides new definition of Personnel Services
• Presents new doctrine for Container Management
• Changes Terminal Operations to Intermodal
Operations
• Defines Mode Operations
• Revises definition for Movement Control
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Endurance
Endurance is enabled by an effective distribution system and an in-transit visibility system
able to track sustainment from strategic to tactical levels

USAMC Theater Army BCT

Mission TSC/ESC/SB BSB
DLA
Command SDDC
USTRANSCOM AFSB II
BSB
X
DIV
X
XX
DIV

X
++
AFSB X
ESC SUST
II
X (TD)

MED II
CSSB

Multinational AO
III
POL XXX
X

X ARFOR
II
SUST X SPT

Strategic
(TO) XX

and Theater
Operating
X

Industrial base Ports of debarkation

Base
Global Distribution Theater Distribution In-transit visibility
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