Equipment
A structure built on posts or floating extending from land out over.
What is a pier?
Able to be assembled into four configurations (Full Stern, Full Side, Force Opening Side, Force Opening Stern) for Sealift Vessels and/or watercraft lighters.
What are the RORO capabilities?
operations provide the capability to move forces, cargo and sustainment through austere/degraded ports or over bare beaches.
What is Logistics Over the Shore (LOTS)?
Terminal battalions with Army watercraft units.
Who conducts LOTS operations?
Airport of Debarkation.
What is APOD?
Is an assistance boat which helps in the mooring or berthing operation of a ship or pier by either towing or pushing a vessel towards the port. The Army has 2 sizes.
What is a small/large tugboat?
The Pier NCO.
Who is the 88K20?
When Service forces conduct LOTS operations together under a joint task force.
What is a JLOTS operation?
When developed or permanent ports and unimproved ports are degraded or inadequate.
When are LOTS operations conducted?
Beach Termination Unit
What is BTU?
An eight-wheel drive, diesel-powered, 10-short-ton tactical truck. It is used by the US military and others for various combat-support missions, and it has five basic configurations.
What is the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck HEMTT?
The MOS of the RORO operations officer in charge.
What is a 88A Transportation Officer?
Water depth, tidal rage and period (high/low), wind and weather considerations, weight of the vehicles/ soft bottom (sand/mud), sandbars, sand dunes, local population/security, proximity to rail, APOD, SPOD, and road.
What are the planning considerations for a LOTS or JLOTS operations?
The beach.
Where LOTS Operations are conducted?
Port Support Activity
What is PSA?
Are the largest powered watercraft in the United States Army and are designed to give the Army a global strategic capability to deliver its vehicles and cargo.
Logistics Support Vessels (LSV)
1 Officer / 38 Enlisted (24-hour operations)
What are the personnel characteristics of RORO?
Determines the exact location of the site and the party consists of a representative of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Terminal Transportation Group.
What is beach reconnaissance?
Enable the loading and off-loading of ships in austere areas, provide commanders options to extend the mission, and provides a means of intratheater sealift.
What is the purpose of LOTS Operations?
Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration.
What is RSO&I?
Is a type of boat used by amphibious forces to transport equipment and troops to the shore.
What is a Landing Craft Utility (LCU)
2 Modular Warping Tugboats (MWT) and 1 Roll-On/Roll-Off Discharge Facility (RRDF)
What is the authorize composition (pacing items) of RORO?
Access to LOCs, engineering effort required to prepare and maintain the area, signal construction and maintenance required for communication within the beach area and the terminal headquarters, environmental considerations, and lighterage types that could be employed.
What are the site selection criteria to conduct LOTS or JLOTS operations?
Bare beach, austere port, and damaged fixed port
What are the three types of LOTS?
Maximum On Ground.
What is MOG?