Hard Time

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      (3) SUPCOM.  The SUPCOM is a tailored organization with
the mission to provide combat service support to EAC forces;
corps; units passing through the COMMZ; and, other CENTCOM
components. It supports the corps with GS supply and
maintenance and backup DS maintenance. As the theater
matures and the SUPCOMs capabilities continue to expand in
response to the growth of the combat force, additional
functional commands may be added, and the SUPCOM may well
transition into a TAAC0b(.

      (4) COSCOM.  The CQSC0M is also a tailored organization
whose mission is to provide combat service support to all
Corps elements. It supports non-divisional units with DS
supply and maintenance; provides backup DS maintenance
to divisions within the Corps; and supports other forces and
activities in the Corps area as directed.

      (5) Host Nation Support (HNS).  HNS has played a key
role in augmenting the Army's organic CSS capabilities
deployed in theater.   lINS consist of contracts for services,
and for such items as subsistence, transportation,  laundry,
trash,  latrines, billeting (tents), lumber, and real estate.


      B. Lines of Communication (LOCs).

      (1) General.  Deployment of forces and their resupply
will be by both air and sea lines of communication (LOCS).
90% of all strategic movements and resupply shipments will
occur by sea and 10% by air, except Class IX (repair parts)
which will have 10% transported by sea and 90% by air.

      (2)  The Air Lines of Communication (ALOCs) will be
used for personnel, high-priority cargo, emergency requests,
aeromedical evacuation and retrograde.   Due to the theater's
limited road networks and the extended road distances of
main supply routes, ALOC operations will be throughput into
forward operating bases whenever possible.   Transportation
assets constitute a scarce resource which must be carefully
managed.   Forces, equipment, and supplies moving to theater
by sealift or airlift are based upon priorities set by the
CINCCENT.   USCINCTRANS, in coordination with USCENTCOM
executes the mission of moving people and materiel into
theater.

      (3)  Sustainment support of SWA will utilize the Army's
standard supply system.   Upon release of a materiel release
order (MRO)  from the wholesale National Inventory Control
Point (NICP) to the supply depot, the materiel is then
pulled, packed, and shipped by the most expeditious
transportation mode to the New Cumberland Army Depot's
Consolidation and Containerization Point (CCP)  (Defense
Depot Mechanicsburg for medical items)  to be unitized and
palletized for throughput shipment to the requestor.   The
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