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WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COMOPERATIONSmaintenance facility with required capabilities. Themaintenance focus is on supporting combat operations.MOVINGSoldiers, equipment, and supplies must move rapidlyand in sufficient quantities to support combat operations.Tactical actions require timely concentrationof units and materiel and often demand short-noticemovement of large forces and major shifts in directionof movement. Automated systems provide intransitvisibility. At the tactical level, units, supplies,and important facilities move as battles progress toensure responsive support of committed units as largeas corps. While moving, CSS units must protect themselvesand provide logistical support to combat units.Planning, controlling, and executing transportationoperations require detailed preparation and extensivetraining of CSS staffs and units. The complicatingeffects of terrain, weather, and enemy interdiction demandwell-planned engineer support and great flexibilityof transportation planners and operators.SUSTAINING SOLDIERSAND THEIR SYSTEMSThe five elements to sustaining soldiers and theirsystems are personnel services, health services, fieldservices, quality of life, and general supply support.Personnel Service SupportPersonnel service support is the management andexecution of personnel services; resource management;finance services; chaplaincy activities; command informationservices; and legal service support. Soldiersare reassured by concerned, positive leadership and apersonnel system that ensures care for them while theyperform their missions.Health Service SupportThe HSS system provides flexibile, versatile, andfully modernized HSS units to support the rapid deploymentof a CONUS-based, force-projection army.The medical force will assure a medical presence withthe soldier and, at the same time, provide state-of-theartmedical and surgical treatment and evacuation, limitedonly by the operational environment. This supportwill ensure that battlefield casualties are treatedand evacuated quickly.The HSS system is a continuum of health care fromthe forward line of own troops through the CONUSsustaining base. It is a system designed to providecontinuous medical management of patients throughoutthe differing levels of care and evacuation. Themedical challenge is to provide HSS simultaneouslyto the CONUS base and to establish an HSS systemwithin the theater that provides requisite care and supportto soldiers, including progressive treatment andevacuation. An additional requirement exists to provideHSS to redeployment and demobilization operationsat the conclusion of military operations. Furthermore,HSS requirements will surface in support of operationsother than war. Typical operations includedisaster relief, nation assistance, support to domesticcivil authorities, and peacekeeping activities.HSS is based on far-forward surgical and medicaltreatment to sustain the health of the force and treatlife-threatening injuries; standardized medical unitsusing a modular medical support system throughoutthe division, corps, and COMMZ areas; standardizedair and ground medical evacuation units, using airevacuation as the primary means of medical evacuation;flexible and responsive hospitals designed andstructured with medical modules to allow for strategicdeployment; and enhanced ancillary and functionalsupport systems using advanced state-of-the-art technology.Field Service SupportField services consist of food preparation, waterpurification, bakery, clothing and light textile repair,laundry and shower, parachute packing, air item maintenance,rigging supplies and equipment for airdrop,and mortuary affairs. Technological advances haveimproved the quality of field service support to thesoldier from tactical showers to improved food servicesupport from modular field kitchens. Provisionof these basics is essential for the maintenance of soldierhealth, morale, and welfare.Quality of LifeEnsuring quality of life is a command responsibility.Quality of life and family considerations affectevery soldier’s readiness and willingness to fight.Effective personnel services, health services, and fieldservices ease immediate soldier concerns. The soldierwho fights best is the one who is reassured thathis loved12-12