Report - United States Department of Defense

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Several classes of supply, including Class I Subsistence and Class II Individual Equipment, have
already been fully transitioned to ANA control and demonstrate natural velocity through the
logistics system. Upcoming transition of responsibility for Class III Bulk Diesel to MoD and
MoI control will require ongoing accurate documented forecasting.
Retrograde policy exists for both the ANA and ANP; however, the process of replacing unrepairable
weapons and vehicles has been undeveloped. The Estimated Cost of Damage (ECOD)
procedure has been developed in consultation with the Afghan forces and is currently being
implemented. This process, once approved and applied, will enable weapons and vehicles
assessed as beyond repair to be retrograded to the national level and replaced with new items.
Another problem encountered during this reporting period was ammunition management. NTM-
A is making progress with transition efforts to the ANA, and training for the ANP is underway.
Transition of Logistics
The MoD has increased capacity for the transition of supplies. However, with an increase in
complexity of supply classes, challenges have arisen regarding differences in contracting end
items. The MoD will need advisory assistance in the areas of requirements generation,
contracting structure, technical assessment, and contract administration for additional transition
of supply classes. Supply management is still immature and needs significant support in the
areas of supply planning/forecasting, effective logistics procedures, and development of organic
maintenance capability.
As coalition forces retrograde, the ANSF will be required to be increasingly reliant on organic
Afghan logistics systems. Therefore, it is important that the ANA is fully capable of using a
command-driven logistical system, which in turn is capable of independently sustaining ongoing
operations and ANA forces within Afghanistan. ANA logistics policy and procedures must be
robust, responsive, and coordinated to work in parallel to coalition force policies and procedures
until required to stand alone after the coalition withdrawal.
Oversight of the logistics system is a command responsibility and the ANA has embraced this
concept through the Logistics Maintenance Terrain Walk program, which began in October
2012. Afghan senior leadership, including ANA Chief of General Staff GEN Karimi, GSG4 MG
Shah Aqa, and Logistics Command commanders, travel to each corps alongside COMIJC and
senior levels of ISAF leadership. Corps commanders and G4 staff provide briefings and a
practical walkthrough of corps, brigade, and CSSK 19 lines, which demonstrates their
understanding, utilization, and increasing proficiency in the supply and sustainment process.
Velocity and feedback during the supply and sustainment process continues to be a challenge but
revision to logistics policies (commonly known as “decrees”) is ongoing at the MoD level in
order to streamline the overly staff-driven sustainment procedure. Signoff of these revisions is
expected soon. Some coalition advisors report that logistics requests reaching regional or
national support commands are treated with a “fill or kill” mentality, with little to no feedback
19 A support Kandak focused on logistics and sustainment.
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