JP 4-01.5 JTTP for Water Terminal Operations - BITS
JP 4-01.5 JTTP for Water Terminal Operations - BITS
JP 4-01.5 JTTP for Water Terminal Operations - BITS
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1. Mission and Assignment<br />
Each Navy Cargo Handling Battalion<br />
(NCHB) is a quick response, multi-mission<br />
tasked unit comprised of 9 officers and 145<br />
enlisted personnel, plus basic organic unit<br />
equipment required to provide technical and<br />
supervisory cargo handling capability.<br />
NCHBs operate most effectively when<br />
employed solely on ship loading and<br />
discharge operations and when each of its 16<br />
seven-man hatch teams is augmented by 7<br />
unskilled or stevedore personnel provided by<br />
the supported unit or activity. When<br />
augmented with 112 personnel (7 per hatch<br />
team), a NCHB can achieve a ship discharge<br />
rate of approximately 2880 MTONs per day<br />
pier-side, and approximately 1920 MTONs<br />
per day discharge rate in-stream. If the NCHB<br />
is not augmented, then the discharge rate must<br />
be reduced by fifty percent (1440 MTONs<br />
pier-side and 960 MTONs in-stream). Cargo<br />
documentation is an organic capability of the<br />
CHB. If assigned to an Army-operated water<br />
terminal, a CHB would operate automated<br />
documentation support equipment. Cargo<br />
documentation support is also available in a<br />
Navy Freight <strong>Terminal</strong> Unit (FTU). A<br />
mission capability of the FTU is the control<br />
and automated documentation of material<br />
receipts and issues and the capability to<br />
interface with multiple military units and local<br />
activities. At a site where multiple CHBs are<br />
operating or operate <strong>for</strong> extended periods, a<br />
FTU detachment may be assigned <strong>for</strong><br />
documentation support.<br />
2. Capability<br />
The specific tasks of a NCHB include, but<br />
are not limited to the following.<br />
a. MPS and/or assault follow-on echelon<br />
Cargo handling <strong>Operations</strong><br />
ANNEX B TO APPENDIX A<br />
NAVY UNITS<br />
b. Heavy Lift (Marine) Crane Operators<br />
c. Port Cargo <strong>Operations</strong> and/or Total<br />
Cargo Class Responsibility<br />
d. Expeditionary (Limited) Ocean<br />
<strong>Terminal</strong> <strong>Operations</strong><br />
e. Expeditionary (Limited) Air Cargo<br />
<strong>Terminal</strong> <strong>Operations</strong><br />
f. Self Support Services<br />
3. Component Package<br />
NCHBs may bring a variety of equipment<br />
packages tailored to support specific missions.<br />
Cargo handling equipment and vehicles (both<br />
civil engineering support equipment [CESE]<br />
and MHE) may be obtained by utilizing<br />
advanced base functional components<br />
(ABFC). Some examples of the ABFC<br />
component packages follow.<br />
a. The Personnel and Basic Personnel<br />
Equipment component provides the personnel<br />
and basic organic personnel support gear<br />
required to per<strong>for</strong>m all cargo handling<br />
missions. Supplemental equipment packages<br />
may be added to this component, as necessary,<br />
to meet specific environmental and/or mission<br />
requirements.<br />
b. An Expanded Core and/or Hatch Box<br />
Equipment component provides the basic<br />
organic cargo handling hatch box equipment<br />
and consumables necessary to provide one<br />
NCHB with the capability to work two shifts<br />
or eight hatches at one location. This<br />
component is air deployable and requires two<br />
463L pallet positions. This component also<br />
provides the necessary ADP equipment <strong>for</strong><br />
the computer-aided load manifesting system<br />
A-B-1