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Sustainment of Army forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom
xxv, 125 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Sustainment of army units in OIF -- Sustainment performance in OIF -- A joint supply chain vision -- The OIF supply chain -- Organization of this report -- Tactical supply operations -- A few basic Army inventory metrics and terms -- Prepositioned ASL breadth: did the Army preposition the right parts? -- ASLs deployed from CONUS had better part mixes -- ASLs were quickly depleted -- Part ordering during combat operations -- Recommendations -- Theater distribution -- Insufficient cargo truck capacity during major combat operations -- Divisional adaptation to shortfalls in cargo truck capacity -- Supply levels during combat operations -- Fuel supplies remained robust -- The pause in the advance at objective RAMS -- Recommendations -- Strategic distribution -- Air shipment performance -- The sources of delays for CCP-built pallets -- Load consolidation -- CONUS distribution center/CCP capacity -- Recommendations -- National- and theater-level inventory -- Backorder rate for Army-managed items -- Air shipping costs -- Army prepositioned sustainment stocks -- Determining and resourcing national-level requirements for spare parts -- Recommendations -- Command and control -- Limited situational awareness during combat operations -- The monitoring and control of processes -- Recommendations -- Implications for the future -- Toward the future force -- Improving the logistics system for current and future forces -- A logistics system that has transformed in concept but is still in transition -- Appendix A. Outline of recommendations -- Appendix B. Key Terms.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125).