fm 44-100 us army air and missile defense operations

Chapter 7
Combat Service Support
This chapter provides doctrine for sustainment of air and missile defense
operations. Combat service support (CSS) is the process of planning and
executing the sustainment of forces in support of military operations. It
includes the functions of supply, transportation, field services,
maintenance, health service support, personnel, and facilities.
COMBAT SERVICE SUPPORT FUNDAMENTALS
7-1. Combat service support’s objective is to ensure that combat operations
succeed. In modern warfare and in stability and support operations,
operations and logistics are totally interdependent. Current and future ADA
systems require well-trained, motivated soldiers to operate them, and a
flexible, responsive logistics system to sustain them. Combat service support
provides the commander the means to initiate and sustain operations at all
levels of war.
STRATEGIC LOGISTICS
7-2. Strategic logistics is the link between the national industrial base and
the nation's joint forces in the theater. It deals with mobilization, acquisition,
force projection, strategic mobility, and the strategic concentration of logistics
in the theater support base and COMMZ. The strategic logistics system
includes activities under Department of the Army control and the national
inventory control points (NICP), integrated material management centers
(IMMC), and the depots, arsenals, data banks, plants, and factories
associated with United States Army Materiel Command (AMC). Other
organizations that provide strategic logistics include the Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA), the US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), and the
General Services Administration (GSA).
7-3. DLA, GSA, and AMC receive and fill requisitions from force-projection
forces, forward presence forces, and CONUS-based forces. However, forward
presence and force-projection forces receive priority of support. All classes of
supply are delivered to the theater through inter-theater lines of
communications (LOC). Strategic logistics functions are performed in
CONUS within the theater base, or are coordinated through the theater
support command (TSC) or logistics support element (LSE) in the COMMZ.
7-4. Logistics assistance representatives (LAR) from the US Army Aviation
and Missile Command (AMCOM) are assigned to most ADA battalions and
brigades. They serve as technical advisors on maintenance and supply, and
provide a direct link to the AMC support base. ADA units also can expect to
have direct contact with contractors on select systems to expedite
maintenance, repair part identification, and resupply.
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