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Principles of Sustainment ✔Correct Answer-1. Integration.
2. Anticipation.
3. Responsiveness.
4. Simplicity.
5. Economy.
6. Survivability.
7. Continuity.
8. Improvisation.
Elements of Sustainment ✔Correct Answer-1. Logistics
2. Financial Management
3. Personnel Services
4. Health Service Support
Division Sustainment BDE (DSB) ✔Correct Answer-1. Span of control: up to 7 BNs (2x organic)
2. Assigned to a DIV
3. Tactical level sustainment operations; direct support to all assigned and attached units
Division Sustainment Support Battalion (DSSB) ✔Correct Answer-1. Span of control: up to 7
COs (4x organic)
2. Organic to DSB
3. Synchs and executes logistic support to BCTs and multifunctional support BDEs attached to
DIV
4. Conducts maintenance, transportation, supply, field services, and distro
Brigade Support Battalion (BSB) ✔Correct Answer-1. Direct support to BCT
2. HHC, Distro CO, Field Maintenance CO, BSMC, FSCs
3. FSCs are organic to BSBs but support associated maneuver BN
4. Establishes BSA
Brigade Support Area (BSA) ✔Correct Answer-1. Location: METT-TC, close enough to provide
support, close to MSR, out of enemy medium artillery range, away from likely enemy avenues of
approach
2. Occupants: BSB, FSC (-), BNs' field trains, HHC BCT, BCT Main CP Sustainment Cell
3. Size: 4km by 7 km
BSB Staff ✔Correct Answer-1. CDR, CSM, UMT, XO, S1, S2, S3, S4, S6, SPO (SASMO)
2. C2 for assigned and attached units
3. Provides CSS/FHP support to customer units external to BSB
,4. Provides HR, logistics, training, security, communications, and religious support to BSB
5. Part of HHC BSB
6. HHC also has 10-man field feeding section
Distribution Company ✔Correct Answer-1. CO HQ, Maintenance Control PLT, Maintenance PLT
2. Transportation PLT, Supply PLT, Fuel and Water PLT, CO HQ
3. Primary supply and transportation hub of BCT
4. Plans, directs, and supervises distro of supplies to BDE
5. Conducts daily receipt, storage, and issue of CLI, II, III, IV, V, and IX and transports cargo to
BDE
6. Employed by BSB and operates throughout supported BDE area
Field Maintenance Company ✔Correct Answer-1. Provides field maintenance support to BSB,
BEB, and supported units in BSA
2. Limited support to FSCs and supported maneuver BNs
3. Provides field maintenance on weapons, power generation equipment, missile and
electronic/weapons systems
4. Provides wielding and lift capabilities for repair shops, recovery of organic equipment and
recovery support to BSB units and elements in BSA
5. Maintenance Control Section manages all field maintenance and recovery mission actions
w/n BSA
Maintenance Principles ✔Correct Answer-1. CDRs responsible for establishing CMD climate
that ensures all assigned equipment is maintained IAW appropriate technical manuals and AR
750-1
2. PMCS - foundation of material readiness
3. CDRs are responsible for providing resources, assigning responsibility, and training Soldiers to
achieve maintenance standards
4. Expeditious return of NMC equipment back to operational status
5. Field level maintenance forward, sustainment level maintenance at EAB
6. CDRs responsible for readiness and safety of equipment
Army Maintenance Standard ✔Correct Answer-FMC with required parts on valid requisitions
CMDP ✔Correct Answer-CDR's program designed to evaluate unit maintenance programs on
day-to-day basis
Army Maintenance System ✔Correct Answer-1. Generate/regenerate CP and preserve capital
investment of weapons systems and equipment to enable mission accomplishment
Levels of Maintenance ✔Correct Answer-1. Field maintenance - "on system" maintenance,
repairs and returns equipment to operator or user ("replace forward," operator/crew, field
mechanics)
,2. Sustainment maintenance - "off system" maintenance, primarily repairs and returns
equipment and components to supply system (repair rear, tactical, installation, depot,
contractor activities)
Maintenance Overlay ✔Correct Answer-1. Maintenance <4 hrs - FMT (Field Maintenance
Team) @ FMP
2. Maintenance >4|<8 hrs - FSC @ MCP (Maintenance Collection Point)
3. Maintenance >8 hrs - BSA Maintenance CO @ MCP
GCSS-A ✔Correct Answer-1. Centrally managed database
2. Incorporates supply, maintenance, and finance into single source of record
3. Allows members of CoC to pull equipment status reports to see functional status of
equipment
4. Use examples: equipment/supply ordering, dispatching, property book
BSMC ✔Correct Answer-1. CO HQ, BMSO, TXT, EVAC, PM, BH
2. Provides AHS support to all units operating w/n BSA
3. Operates Role 2 MTF and provides AHS support on area basis to all BCT units that do not have
organic medical assets
4. Provides ground evac, medical supply, dental, PM, and COSC to all BCT units
5. 4 (A/IBCT), 5 (SBCT) TXT teams can be dispersed
6. Can support up to 20x patients w/ 72hr expected RTD
7. Partially located in BSA during combat operations w/ 1/3 of CO located in maneuver BN's area
in form of EVAC PLT
Forward Support CO (FSC) ✔Correct Answer-1. CO HQ, Field Feeding Section, Distro PLT,
Maintenance PLT
2. Provides direct logistic support to its supported maneuver BN
3. Provides field feeding, bulk fuel, general supply, ammunition, and field maintenance
4. May be attached or OPCON to its supported BN
5. FSC CDR advises supported BN S4 and XO w/ BN logistics planning and is responsible for
executing logistics plan
CO Primary Sustainment Roles - CO XO ✔Correct Answer-1. Serves as CO Operations Officer
2. Duties include tactical and logistics coordination w/ higher, adjacent, and supported units
3. CO's primary internal logistics planner and coordinator
4. Along with CO HQ section, XO operations CO CP
5. May serve as officer in charge
CO Primary Sustainment Roles - CO 1SG ✔Correct Answer-1. CO Sr NCO
2. CDR's primary logistics and tactical advisor
3. Collaborates w/ CDR and XO to plan, coordinate, and supervise all logistic activities that
support CO mission
, BSB Primary Sustainment Roles - BSB CDR ✔Correct Answer-1. Sr Logistician and logistics CDR
in BCT
2. Sr Sustainment advisor to BCT CDR
3. Must be responsive to both BCT CDR's tactical plan and higher sustainment CDR's support
plan
4. Must synchronize sustainment assets to support BCT with support provided by Sustainment
BDE
BSB Primary Sustainment Roles - BSB XO ✔Correct Answer-1. Directs, coordinates, supervises,
trains, and synchronizes work of staff and ensures effective and prompt staff actions
2. Managers CCIR, organization of staff into functional and integrating cells and working groups
when required
3. Supervises creation and approval of logistics report status, BSB CP, its operations, and
positioning w/n BSA
4. Synchronizes staff during MDMP
BSB Primary Sustainment Roles - BSB S1 ✔Correct Answer-1. Serves as BSB principal staff
officer for HR support, etc.
2. Coordinates medical, religious, and legal support for BSB internal
BSB Primary Sustainment Roles - BSB S4 ✔Correct Answer-1. Coordinates strategic and
operational employment of BSB
2. Coordinates internal supply functions, determines supply requirements (except medical),
determines supply priorities for publication in OPORDs, and coordinates requisition, acquisition,
and storage of supplies and equipment
3. Monitors field feeding, property book activities, maintenance operations, unit basic loads,
equipment operational status, and status of requisitions
4. Manages BSB budget
BSB Primary Sustainment Roles - BSB S3 ✔Correct Answer-1. Responsible for synchronizing
and integrating BSB sustainment operations with warfighting functions for CDR
2. Recommends location and proposes layout for BSA
3. Responsible for writing and reviewing BN's TACSOP and prepares friendly forces overlays
4. Work closely with SPO to assist and develop Concept of Support for BDE
5. Coordinates with SPO to develop unit task org. plan and execute operations security and
develop force module packages for BSB deployment
6. Recommend/incorporate all technologies/automation, combat unit requirements, unit
historical data, current/future logistics posture, mobility data, and CDR's guidance into
development of support plan
7. Plan tactical troop movements
BSB Primary Sustainment Roles - SPO ✔Correct Answer-1. Principal staff officer for
coordinating support for all units assigned/attached to BDE