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COURSE TITLE: RESERVE COMPONENT THEATER SUSTAINMENT
COURSE NUMBER: ALMC-RC School Code: 907
MODES AND DURATION:
Resident—2 Weeks 0.0 Days
Onsite—2 Weeks 0.0 Days
RECOMMENDED CREDIT:
ACE—3 semester hours undergraduate
(See www.militaryguides.acenet.edu)
POC:
DSN 539-4721
(804) 765-4721
PREREQUISITES:
Attendance is intended for Reserve Component Officers who have a primary or secondary
specialty code in the logistics field and have completed the Branch Officer Advanced Course.
Completion of Command and General Staff College is desirable. RC Officers in the rank of
captain or above assigned to or planning future assignments to multifunctional sustainment
positions coded 90A. 1LTs will require a waiver submitted to the course director with a copy of the
DA Form 1059 showing successful completion of a Branch Officer Advanced Course. Applicants
should be Sustainment or Logistics Branch officers, officers desiring transfer to a logistics
specialty, or officers whose present assignment requires knowledge of the Army's modular
logistics system. RC senior non-commissioned officers (E-8 and above) must have completed
Battle Staff School prior to attendance. Nominees must be able to complete the course with at
least 3 years of service remaining before basic date of mandatory removal and meet height and
weight standards in AR 600-9, appendix A-1. A SECRET security clearance is required.
COURSE SCOPE:
RCTSC is a course that gives logisticians who will be positioned within the Army as
multifunctional, joint, & multinational logistics problem solvers at the operational level critical
thinking skills, a framework, and abilities to solve complex logistics problems in peace and war. It
is designed for Reserve Component officers and senior non-commissioned officers, preparing
them for executive and policy making mobilization assignments. Students are trained on critical
problem solving skills, joint logistics, conducting peacetime planning for logistics support of
contingency operations, directing theater opening operations, managing the command's
deployment operations, directing maneuver sustainment operations, managing distribution
systems, establishing support of logistics infrastructure and logistics support areas and activities,
coordinating force protection resources, and managing redeployment operations. Phase 1; and
qualifies a Reserve Component Officer for Functional Area 90 as per DA Pam 600-3.
ENDSTATE: Develop agile, innovative logisticians with the applied-analysis skills to solve
complex operational logistics problems in our current and future environments; trained and ready
to enable your logistics organization to accomplish its mission.
SPECIAL INFORMATION: None
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