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In the United States, the term combat service support has been phased-out in favor of the term "sustainment." [3] but the mission remains the same; to manage the logistics supply chain and provide all materiel, maintenance, transportation, health services, personnel services and other services required by the warfighting units to permit those units to accomplish their missions in combat.
"Combat service support" as a classification was replaced by "sustainment" with the publication of FM 3–0, Operations in February 2008. [2] In the US Army Sustainment is defined as "the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion".
Integrated logistics [1] support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering to lower a product life cycle cost and decrease demand for logistics by the maintenance system optimization to ease the product support. Although originally developed for military purposes, it is also widely used in commercial customer service organisations. [2]
The division sustainment support battalion is a renamed combat sustainment support battalion. It is organic to division sustainment support brigades assigned to divisions. The division sustainment support battalion and its subordinate units must be able to move and displace at the pace of large-scale combat operations.
Although modern communications and information technology may have blurred the distinction between them, [50] the three-level hierarchy is deeply embedded in the organisational structure of military forces. [51] Strategic logistics involves logistical activities that are conducted at national and international levels.
The brigade provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. forces throughout Europe and Africa – providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging U.S. Army Materiel Command’s materiel enterprise to support joint forces.
These formations are designed so that they can operate with coalition, or joint forces such as the Marine Corps, or can span the gap between modular combat brigades and other modular support brigades. [f] Combat Sustainment Brigade Structure. Sustainment Brigades provide echelon-above-brigade-level logistics. [80]
Joint Support and Enabling Command is responsible for coordinating the reinforcement and subsequent sustainment of NATO forces during war. The JSEC was announced at the same time as Joint Force Command Norfolk, established to help protect maritime transport and sea lines of communication between North America and Europe; [7] Its design is modeled after a Bundeswehr Joint Support Service Command.