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Enabling Tactics, Techniques, Procedures, and Considerations 07 December 2020 ATP 5-0.2-1 203 C-50. Unit leadership ensures the main body has the required sustainment assets for their movement. The sustainment assets needed are the same as the quartering party. C-51. Engineer support for the quartering party or main body is not normally required since the quartering party and main body generally move through a known and secure area, and other units usually need these scarce engineer support assets. Air defense units may move with the quartering party enroute to the new AA, or already in place air defense units provide air defense coverage. PREPARING AN ASSEMBLY AREA C-52. The quartering party assembles at a time and place directed by the OIC. The OIC posts graphics concerning the route, location and identity of friendly units, and the tentative occupation plan for the AA. C-53. The main body prepares to occupy the AA by ensuring that each subordinate unit understands where to position itself in the AA, what security tasks the unit is responsible for in the AA, and how it is to move to the AA. C-54. After the quartering party OIC has completed planning, the OIC assembles the quartering party to brief the plan. This briefing should follow the standard five-paragraph order format. The briefing should emphasize— Actions of the quartering party in the assembly area. Actions on contact. Actions to take if separated from the quartering party. Actions at halts. Medical evacuation procedures. Actions at critical areas. Contingency plans. Methods to request and receive sustainment. C-55. The OIC may require backbriefs from quartering party element leaders and may execute rehearsals of key actions before starting movement. Rehearsals are vitally important when the threat level is high and elements in the quartering party have no habitual association or functioning SOP. The OIC may conduct brief, informal precombat inspections (PCI) of the quartering party. PCI checks should emphasize vehicle and radio preventive maintenance and services, weapons and ammunition status, communications ability, graphics, understanding of the plan, and signals information. C-56. When briefing the main body, unit leadership follows the same briefing format the quartering party used along with the additional topic of updates from the quartering party. C-57. Having determined the support requirements of the quartering party during the planning phase, the NCOIC takes all actions necessary to obtain the support needed to accomplish the mission. Most quartering party personnel come with a supporting vehicle. If too many members arrive without transportation, the NCOIC needs to coordinate for additional vehicles. The NCOIC ensures that all vehicles are prepared for movement including full fuel tanks, maps, radios (if so equipped), ammunition, and water. One or more quartering party vehicles should carry vehicle tow bars. If different types of vehicles are in the convoy, a means of recovery for each vehicle type is needed. For sustainment obtained through other sustainment units on an area support basis, the NCOIC coordinates estimated fuel and resupply requirements with the logistics officer. This coordination includes where and when support is required. Usually, the quartering party carries both needed and extra fuel and supplies which they can then use to establish refuel on the move (ROM) locations that both the quartering party and the main body use. C-58. Unit leadership for the main body ensures that a means of recovery for each type of vehicle and the appropriate amount of sustainment are available for the duration of the movement. Leaders should not leave anything behind when they move the main body; therefore, they must accomplish proper manning of all vehicles and equipment and an accounting of all equipment and personnel.