Appendix A
GLOSSARY OF COMMON RSO& TERMS
Aerial Port Of Debarkation (APOD): An aerial port within the theater of operations where the strategic transportation of forces is completed.
Aerial Port Of Embarkation (APOE): An air terminal at which troops, units, military-sponsored personnel, unit equipment, and materiel board and are loaded.
Air Mobility Command (AMC): Plans and executes strategic airlift. It operates air terminals in CONUS and OCONUS for air movement of units, equipment, and high-priority supplies.
Army War Reserve Preposition Sets (AWRPS): Prepositioned equipment.
Intransit Visibility (ITV): The subset of total asset visibility that covers material and personnel in the transportation system. ITV assists RSO&I providers in two ways. It directly yields much of the data needed for force tracking and it also delivers data that helps providers anticipate workloads and manage them effectively.
Intermediate Staging Base (ISB): Area established to assure continuity of support. It allows supported tactical and operational commanders time to gather additional intelligence on the AO and finalize plans following briefings and rehearsals and provides time during which units may redistribute and finalize their accompanying loads. --FM 100-15
Host-Nation Support (HNS): Civil and/or military assistance rendered by a nation to foreign forces within its territory during peacetime, times of crisis/emergencies, or war based upon agreements mutually concluded between nations. --FM101-5-1
Logistics Information File (LIF): Receives information from radio frequency (RF) tags and interrogators in support of total asset visibility.
Logistics Support Element (LSE): A TDA unit that assists with the offload of equipment at the offload location.
Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC): A joint command primarily of Army elements. It pre-plans CONUS transportation for deploying units through the use of contingency standing route orders. MTMC is responsible for the direction, control, and supervision of all functions incident to the procurement and use of freight and passenger transportation services.
Non-Authorized Preposition Equipment (NAP): Equipment that is not authorized for preposition. NAP items are typically items that are relatively small in size, technically sophisticated, and in somewhat short supply Armywide, e.g., Artillery fire direction computer systems and laser designators.
Port Support Activity (PSA): The PSA is a temporary military augmentation organization comprised of personnel with specific skills. It aids the port commander in receiving, processing, and clearing cargo at both SPOE and SPOD. The deploying force provides the PSA that augments the port commander's terminal operations force overseas, in an Area of Operation, in undeveloped or developing theaters, or where assigned theater forces are inadequate. (A general numeric sizing rule of thumb for this PSA task force is a company for a deploying brigade, a battalion for a deploying division, and a brigade for a deploying crops. This relates to size only, not organizational structure.) --FM 100-17-1 (Draft)
Reception: The offload of personnel and material from inter- or intra-theater transport at a point of debarkation for relocation to designated areas.
Sea Port Of Debarkation (SPOD): Sea port within the theater of operations where the strategic transportation of forces is completed.
Sea Port Of Embarkation (SPOE): Sea terminal at which troops, units, military-sponsored personnel, unit equipment, and materiel board and are loaded.
Standard Installation and Division Personnel System (SIDPERS): An unclassified Standard Army Management Information System (STAMIS) which operates on the Tactical Army Combat Service Support CSS) Computer System (TACCS). It provides a standardized personnel system responsible for strength reporting and personnel administration. SIDPERS supports strength accounting, personnel management, and exchange of information with other automated systems.
Split-Base Operations: Dividing Logistics management functions so that only those functions absolutely necessary are deployed, allowing some management functions to be accomplished from CONUS or another theater.
Staging: The second phase of the RSO&I process. It involves the organization and preparation for movement of personnel and material at designated areas to incrementally build forces capable of meeting the operational and tactical commander's requirements.
Strategic Deployment System (STRADS): An MTMC planning and execution system used to plan, execute, and monitor unit mobilization, deployment, and redeployment activities during both exercises and contingencies.
Theater Army Transportation Command: The Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) is the major Army transportation headquarters in the theater army. It is a major functional command of the theater army and includes all of the elements necessary to move personnel and materiel from points of arrival in the theater to the combat zone or intermediate destinations.
Tactical Assembly Area (TAA): The area in which units assemble after completing the RSO&I process. Units arrive ready to be absorbed by a higher headquarters.
To-Accompany-Troops equipment (TAT): Equipment that is deployed with the soldier. TAT are items needed by individual soldiers to be combat effective, e.g., weapons, protective masks, night-vision goggles, etc.
Time-Phase Force Deployment Document (TPFDD): Developed by commanders to effectively and expeditiously unite soldiers and equipment to form a combat-ready unit.
Chapter
5: Tracking Combat Power
Appendix
B: RSO& Combat Power Tracking Charts
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