ATP-5-0-2-1 Staff Reference Guide Volume 1 Download

Appendix G 248 ATP 5-0.2-1 07 December 2020 Table G-1. Army sustainment elements ADP 4-0 Logistics. ADP 4-0; FM 4-0 Financial management support FM 1-06 (not covered) Personnel services. ATP 1-0.1; ATP 1-0.2 Health service support FM 4-02 Distribution. ATP 4-0.1 Field services. JP 3-09; ATP 4-44; ATP 4-42 Financial operations Human resources support. FM 1-0 Casualty care Transportation. FM 4-01 Resource management Legal support. FM 1-04 Medical evacuation Maintenance. Operational contract support. ATP 4-10/MCRP 4- 11H/NTTP 4- 09.1/AFMAN 10- 409-O (not covered) Religious support. FM 1-05 (not covered) Medical logistics Supply FM 4-40; FM 4-30 Band support. ATP 1-19 (not covered) General engineering support FM 3-34 (not covered) SUSTAINMENT PLANNING G-4. Sustainment planning focuses on sustaining friendly forces to the degree that supported units accomplish the desired end state. The primary product of sustainment planning is the concept of support, which is produced in briefing and written formats. Annexes and appendices to plan orders (PLANORDs) and operation orders (OPORDs) detail the sustainment plan. G-5. Some of the factors considered in initial sustainment planning include—  Information on climate, terrain, and endemic diseases in the area of operations (AO) to determine when and what types of equipment are needed.  Information on the availability of supplies and services. Supplies such as water and fresh food, subsistence items, bulk petroleum, and general construction materials are the most common.  Information on the availability of warehousing, cold storage, production and manufacturing plants, reservoirs, administrative facilities, hospitals, housing, and sanitation capabilities.  Information on road and rail networks, inland waterways, airfields, truck availability, bridges, ports, cargo handlers, petroleum pipelines, materials handling equipment, traffic flow, choke points, and control problems.  Availability of host-nation maintenance capabilities.  Information on available general skills such as translators and skilled and unskilled laborers.  Agreements and contracts of host nation and partner nation available to the sustainment unit. These often determine the levels or types of requests for forces required.  Level of threat. This determines what protection units and measures are required. Selected initial forces, follow on forces, and other requirements are impacted by the level of threat. G-6. Sustainment preparation of the operational environment is the analysis to determine infrastructure, physical environment, and resources in the operational environment that will optimize or adversely impact friendly forces means for supporting and sustaining the commander's operations plan (ADP 4-0). In planning and preparation phases of operations, the command and staff consider various factors to prevent the premature culmination of operations and reduce unexpected lag or loss of sustainment capabilities due to environmental, infrastructure, on-ground conditions, and mission variables (mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations—METT-TC). Table G-2 lists some sources of information for sustainment preparation of the operational environment.