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| Define supply. | The acquiring, managing, receiving, storing, and issuing of all classes of supply (except Class VIII) required to equip and sustain Army forces. |
| What are the four general supply support concepts? | Supplies will be tailored and packaged for specific supported units based on a specific time and location; Preference is throughput; Supplies packaged based on unit type and mission;Distribution based instead of supply point based |
| What are the five supply planning considerations? | Determine initial requirements; Fill shortages; Determine status of authorized supplies; Determine pre-deployment requirement/status; Determine replacement and consumption requirements |
| What are the four responsibilities of the BSB SPO? | Forecast and monitor the distribution of supplies within the brigade; Monitor subsistence supply, storage, and distribution operations in subordinate units; Determine material handling equipment (MHE) requirements to support operations; Analyzes data and reports to determine efficiency of operations, conformance to standards, and trends |
| What classes of supply does the Supply Platoon, Distribution Company of the BSB provide? | Provides the brigade a single source for all classes of supply (less Class I (water), III (bulk), and VIII (medical)) operations |
| What are the five Class-I supply principles? | Ice and water may be issued with Class-I; Class-I supplies (meals ready-to-eat (MREs)) are configured into unit configured loads by the BSB based on personnel strength reports; These pallet-sized loads will be delivered as logistics package by the BSB’s transportation platoon conducting combat logistics patrols to the FSCs; Operational rations (MREs) will be used until the HBCT commander or higher determines that they are no longer needed (i.e. commander determines A rations are appropriate) or operational tempo (OPTEMPO) permits a meal cycle; The feeding standard is three quality meals each day, with the capability to distribute, prepare, and serve (METT-TC dependent) at least one Unitized Group Ration-A (UGR-A) or UGR-Heat & Serve (UGR-H&S) meal per day. |
| What is does “issue cycle” mean? | When we deliver it to you, not when you consume it. |
| What is the difference between “ration cycle” and “issue cycle”? | Ration cycle is what you eat (e.g. Heat & Serve-MRE-Heat & Serve cycle). Issue cycle is when we deliver it to you. |
| What are the three methods of issue at a Field Ration Issue Point? | Truck-to-truck, unit pile, item pile |
| Of the three methods of issue at a Field Ration Issue Point, which is the preferred method? | Truck-to-truck |
