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"Combat service support" as a classification was replaced by "sustainment" with the publication of FM 3–0, Operations in February 2008. [2] In the US Army Sustainment is defined as "the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion".
Military literature in the War Department Library relating to the participation of the individual states in the war for the union: 1897: 203: military literature 45: Infantry drill regulations, United States Army; adopted Oct. 3, 1891: 1898: 286 + index: TM 47: Infantry Drill Regulations, The Manual of Arms, Adapted to the magazine rifle ...
The effective day the President takes the adversary decision to prepare for war (unambiguous strategic warning). (US) X-Day 1 November 1945, the day Operation Downfall (the invasion of Japan) was to begin. [10] The term also generically means "attack day". Y-Day 1 March 1946, the day Operation Coronet (the invasion of Tokyo Plains) was to occur ...
In the United States, the term combat service support has been phased-out in favor of the term "sustainment." [3] but the mission remains the same; to manage the logistics supply chain and provide all materiel, maintenance, transportation, health services, personnel services and other services required by the warfighting units to permit those units to accomplish their missions in combat.
Service number prefix and suffix codes were one and two letter designators written before or after a service number; a service member could only have one code at any given time. The purpose of these codes was to provide additional information regarding a military service member with the very first prefix codes created by the Army in 1920 and ...
A military service number of the Regular Army. Service numbers were used by the United States Army from 1918 until 1969. Prior to this time, the Army relied on muster rolls as a means of indexing enlisted service members while officers were usually listed on yearly rolls maintained by the United States War Department. In the nineteenth century ...
Paratrooper – The Saga of Parachute And Glider Combat Troops During World War II. Robson Books. ISBN 0-312-59652-9. Major Ellis, L.S. (2004) [1968]. Victory in the West: The Defeat of Germany, Official Campaign History Volume II. History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Military. Naval & Military Press Ltd. ISBN 1-84574-059-9.
Combat – Headquarters USAF First word code name programs [57] Combat Angel – 1970s tactical electronic warfare drone system. [58] Combat Apple [59] Combat Arrow – USAFE program for MC-130E Combat Talons [59] Combat Archer – Reconnaissance program, later an Air Combat Command weapons system evaluation program.