| Preface |
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| Summary |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Glossary |
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Sustainment of Army Units in OIF |
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Sustainment Performance in OIF |
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3 | (4) |
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A Joint Supply Chain Vision |
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7 | (7) |
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Tactical Supply Operations |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (1) |
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10 | (2) |
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Theater General Support Stockage |
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12 | (1) |
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National Supply Management |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (4) |
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Organization of This Report |
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18 | (1) |
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Tactical Supply Operations |
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19 | (18) |
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A Few Basic Army Inventory Metrics and Terms |
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19 | (2) |
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Prepositioned ASL Breadth: Did the Army Preposition the Right Parts? |
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21 | (4) |
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ASLs Deployed from CONUS Had Better Part Mixes |
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25 | (3) |
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ASLs Were Quickly Depleted |
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28 | (2) |
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Part Ordering During Combat Operations |
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30 | (2) |
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32 | (5) |
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37 | (22) |
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Insufficient Cargo Truck Capacity During Major Combat Operations |
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38 | (5) |
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The Planned Cargo Truck Requirement and Availability |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (1) |
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Unanticipated Demands for Cargo Truck Capacity |
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41 | (1) |
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Factors That Reduced the Effective Capacity of Available Trucks |
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42 | (1) |
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Divisional Adaptation to Shortfalls in Cargo Truck Capacity |
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43 | (1) |
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Supply Levels During Combat Operations |
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44 | (6) |
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Capacity Devoted Almost Entirely to Food, Water, and Ammunition |
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48 | (1) |
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Ammunition Supply During Combat Operations |
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48 | (2) |
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Fuel Supplies Remained Robust |
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50 | (4) |
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Theater Preparatory Tasks |
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50 | (1) |
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Planning and Resourcing Refueling Operations |
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51 | (2) |
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Differences Between the Fuel and Other Supply Chains |
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53 | (1) |
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The Pause in the Advance at Objective RAMS |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (3) |
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59 | (20) |
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60 | (2) |
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The Sources of Delays for CCP-Built Pallets |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (10) |
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65 | (3) |
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68 | (2) |
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70 | (1) |
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The Benefits of SSA-Pure Multipacks and Pallets |
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70 | (4) |
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CONUS Distribution Center/CCP Capacity |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (3) |
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National- and Theater-Level Inventory |
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79 | (22) |
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Backorder Rate for Army-Managed Items |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (2) |
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Army Prepositioned Sustainment Stocks |
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84 | (8) |
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84 | (7) |
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CONUS-Based War Reserve Sustainment Stocks |
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91 | (1) |
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Determining and Resourcing National-Level Requirements for Spare Parts |
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92 | (5) |
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97 | (4) |
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101 | (6) |
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Limited Situational Awareness During Combat Operations |
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101 | (2) |
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The Monitoring and Control of Processes |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (3) |
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Implications for the Future |
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107 | (16) |
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107 | (2) |
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Requirements of Distributed Operations with Long LOCs |
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107 | (1) |
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Low Supply Levels in Maneuver Brigades Produced a Strong Sense of Risk |
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108 | (1) |
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Units Employed a Combat Readiness Standard |
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109 | (1) |
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The Breadth of Equipment in Current BCTs Makes Effective Support Challenging |
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109 | (1) |
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Improving the Logistics System for Current and Future Forces |
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109 | (4) |
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A Logistics System that Has Transformed in Concept but Is Still in Transition |
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113 | (2) |
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A. Outline of Recommendations |
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115 | (6) |
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121 | (2) |
| References |
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