M100 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Support area - ✔✔portion of the commander's area of operations [within the Rear
Area] that is designated to facilitate the positioning, employment, and protection of base
sustainment assets required to sustain, enable, and control operations. It is where most
of the echelon's sustaining operations occur.
✔✔Main Effort (ME) - ✔✔is a designated subordinate unit whose mission at a
given point in time is most critical to overall mission success.
✔✔Supporting Effort (SE) - ✔✔designated subordinate unit with a mission that supports
the success of the main effort.
✔✔FORCE PROJECTION - ✔✔Is the military component of power projection. It is
central to the National Military Strategy. Speed is paramount; force projection is a race
between friendly forces and enemy or adversary forces. The side that most rapidly
builds combat power can seize the initiative. Thus, it is not the velocity of individual
stages or transportation means that are decisive; it is a combat-ready force deployed to
an operational area before an enemy is prepared to act or before the situation
deteriorates further.
✔✔Strategic Mobility Triad - ✔✔• Airlift
, • Sealift
•Pre-Positioned Stocks
✔✔Strategic Support Area - ✔✔• Focused on critical capabilities to meet the needs of
the Army and the nation.
• Provide strategic readiness to the Army - they project power, and protect and care for
Soldiers, Families, and DA Civilians.
• Platforms from which the Army builds culture, trains, mobilizes and deploys. Located in
the strategic support area.
✔✔Power Projection Platforms - ✔✔• Installation (IMCOM)
• Army Field Support Brigade (AMC)
• Infrastructure (US Department of Transportation)
✔✔LSCO Sustainment challenges - ✔✔•Higher operational tempo
•Greater lethality
•Significantly increased consumption of supplies and equipment
•Increased requirements for a robust medical architecture
•Large-scale personnel and equipment replacements
Threats to sustainment units and operations
✔✔LSCO Sustainment Planning Considerations - ✔✔-Synchronization with concept of
operations
-Command and Support relationships
-Support area locations (DSA, CSA, FLE, AXP, MCP, templated BSAs)
-Main and alternate supply routes/ MEDEVAC routes (ground/air) - Time/Distance
-Key infrastructure/terrain: facilities, rail, water, weather, etc.
-Critical control measures (LRPs, CPs, FDRP)
-Key tasks for sustainment/HSS
✔✔Concept of Sustainment - ✔✔Audience: Brigade commanders and S-3s.
Synchronize with the concept of the operation.
Describes the sustainment priorities by phase (synchronized with concept of
operations):
• Priority of support (by subordinate unit)
• Priority of supply (by class)
• Priority of maintenance (by system or by capability)
• Priority of movement (forward and rearward)
Includes mission risks and mitigation.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Support area - ✔✔portion of the commander's area of operations [within the Rear
Area] that is designated to facilitate the positioning, employment, and protection of base
sustainment assets required to sustain, enable, and control operations. It is where most
of the echelon's sustaining operations occur.
✔✔Main Effort (ME) - ✔✔is a designated subordinate unit whose mission at a
given point in time is most critical to overall mission success.
✔✔Supporting Effort (SE) - ✔✔designated subordinate unit with a mission that supports
the success of the main effort.
✔✔FORCE PROJECTION - ✔✔Is the military component of power projection. It is
central to the National Military Strategy. Speed is paramount; force projection is a race
between friendly forces and enemy or adversary forces. The side that most rapidly
builds combat power can seize the initiative. Thus, it is not the velocity of individual
stages or transportation means that are decisive; it is a combat-ready force deployed to
an operational area before an enemy is prepared to act or before the situation
deteriorates further.
✔✔Strategic Mobility Triad - ✔✔• Airlift
, • Sealift
•Pre-Positioned Stocks
✔✔Strategic Support Area - ✔✔• Focused on critical capabilities to meet the needs of
the Army and the nation.
• Provide strategic readiness to the Army - they project power, and protect and care for
Soldiers, Families, and DA Civilians.
• Platforms from which the Army builds culture, trains, mobilizes and deploys. Located in
the strategic support area.
✔✔Power Projection Platforms - ✔✔• Installation (IMCOM)
• Army Field Support Brigade (AMC)
• Infrastructure (US Department of Transportation)
✔✔LSCO Sustainment challenges - ✔✔•Higher operational tempo
•Greater lethality
•Significantly increased consumption of supplies and equipment
•Increased requirements for a robust medical architecture
•Large-scale personnel and equipment replacements
Threats to sustainment units and operations
✔✔LSCO Sustainment Planning Considerations - ✔✔-Synchronization with concept of
operations
-Command and Support relationships
-Support area locations (DSA, CSA, FLE, AXP, MCP, templated BSAs)
-Main and alternate supply routes/ MEDEVAC routes (ground/air) - Time/Distance
-Key infrastructure/terrain: facilities, rail, water, weather, etc.
-Critical control measures (LRPs, CPs, FDRP)
-Key tasks for sustainment/HSS
✔✔Concept of Sustainment - ✔✔Audience: Brigade commanders and S-3s.
Synchronize with the concept of the operation.
Describes the sustainment priorities by phase (synchronized with concept of
operations):
• Priority of support (by subordinate unit)
• Priority of supply (by class)
• Priority of maintenance (by system or by capability)
• Priority of movement (forward and rearward)
Includes mission risks and mitigation.
