Principles of Sustainment
The number of principles of logistics.
What is 8?
This person sets the priorities and accepts risks.
Who is the Company Commander?
This unit is strategically designed to be able to Open and Close Theaters?
Who is the DSTB?
The Missions of a Sustainment Brigade.
What are Theater Opening, Sustainment, Theater Distribution, and Theater Closing?
The 4 'Rights of Supply'
What is Right Item, Right Quantity, Right Time, and Right Place?
The most critical principle of sustainment.
What is Integration?
This person executes supply support, maintains accountability, and tracks shortages.
Who is the Supply Sergeant?
This company specializes in the In-Transit visibility, and deployment/redeployment of EQUIPMENT.
Who is the Movement Control Team?
This core function of the Sustainment Brigade ensures that fuel, ammunition, water, and all classes of supply flow from theater-level providers to the warfighter at the right time and place.
What is Distribution Management?
This class of supply covers Repair and Components.
What is Class IX (Nine)?
Requires the ability to react to changing requirements and respond to meet the needs to maintain support.
What is Responsiveness?
Responsible for forecasting consumption and submitting LOGSTATs
Who is the Platoons?
This company specializes in the processing of personnel into and out of theater.
Who is 510th Human Resources Company?
This core mission establishes the initial logistics footprint in a new operational area by receiving, staging, and moving forces and materiel into the theater.
What is Theater Opening?
The report used to request additional supplies.
What is LOGSTAT?
The function related to tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance?
What is Sustainment Warfighting?
“According to Army policy, these individuals are responsible for the proper care, custody, and safeguarding of all government property—whether they sign for it or not.
Who is everybody?
This unit provides field‑level maintenance support to the entire division, ensuring combat power stays in the fight.
Who is Division Support Maintenance Company (DSMC)?
This mission ensures continuous support to the force by providing supply, maintenance, transportation, and human resources services throughout the duration of operations.
What is Sustainment?
These are essential to maintaining combat power, enabling strategic and operational reach, and providing Army forces with endurance.
What are the Principles of Sustainment?
The Warfighting core functions.
What are Movement and Maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Sustainment, Mission Command, Protection?
These individuals are entrusted with maintaining custody and control of equipment issued to sections, teams, or work areas under a primary hand receipt.
Who is the Sub Hand Receipt Holder?
This unit houses the BN and BDE HQs, and the BDE SPO and facilitates the coordination of sustainment operations throughout the BDE and DIV.
Who is HHC, DSTB!!!!
This mission draws down forces and equipment, coordinating retrograde, disposal, and redeployment activities to transition the theater back to pre‑conflict conditions.
What is Theater Closing?
The 4 elements of Sustainment Warfighting Functions.
What are Logistics, Financial Management, Personnel Services, and Health Service Support?