Accession Number ADA560229
Title Support the Castle: A Forward Support Company in Action.
Publication Date Dec 2010
Media Count 5p
Personal Author D. L. Brewer
Abstract In 2007, the United States Army Reserve completed its transformation to modularity. The impact on the Engineer Regiment was immediate. Companies, detachments, platoons, and even squads were now organized to serve as elements of a tailored force package, designed to complete a specific mission or task, rather than deploy with an organic engineer battalion. The direct impact on the engineer battalion headquarters was also instantaneous, eliminating the headquarters support company with its 200 or more Soldiers, and developing two separate support companies that together formed the battalion headquarters element. The battalion headquarters became a headquarters and headquarters company (HHC), designed to support the staff sections, and a forward support company (FSC), intended to conduct the sustainment functions needed to sustain an engineer battalion. In many battalion headquarters, the HHC quickly came into its own and began serving as the staff company, but the best employment of the FSC proved more elusive, and it has often been underutilized. It is the intent of this article to provide information on how an FSC is designed to work for an engineer battalion and how it worked for the 844th Engineer Battalion during the unit s recent deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Keywords Army
Battalion level organizations
Company level organizations
Deployment
Forward areas
Impact
Logistics support
Military engineering
Military engineers
Military forces(United states)
Military reserves
Missions
Reprints
Squad level organizations

 
Source Agency Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category 50B - Civil Engineering
74E - Logistics, Military Facilities, & Supplies
74G - Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics
Corporate Author Army Engineer School, Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
Document Type Journal article
Title Note Journal article.
NTIS Issue Number 1221
Contract Number N/A

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