Field Manual 10-1, “Quartermaster Principles,” is the Army's capstone manual for Quartermaster (QM) corps soldiers and units. It focuses on current doctrine in FMS 100-5, 100-10, and 100-16. It also considers recent combat experience from operations Desert Shield/Storm; guidance in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5 and the Combined Arms Support Command's publication “Vision of Combined Arms Support;” and information form TRADOC battle labs and warfighting lens analyses. Since 1775, the QMC has provided logistical support to the Unites States Army's combat forces. During its long history, it has developed a special one-to-one relationship between quartermasters and supported soldiers. This has been a critical factor in the success of the Corps and the keystone to its heritage. QM soldiers and units have a dual responsibility. They must be technically proficient and prepared to provide supply and field service support to the force. And, they must be tactically proficient and prepared to deploy as quickly as the combat and combat support forces. Once deployed, they must be able to fight and defend themselves. At the same time, they must concurrently provide logistical support to an extended battlefield. The QMC is one of the more complex and diverse branches of the Army. It has personnel proponency for 11 enlisted military occupational specialties (MOSs) in three career management fields, four warrant officers MOSs, and five officer areas of concentration. QM personnel serve in every type of unit – from units at the forward line of own troop (FLOT) to the theater rear boundary. These units range from light infantry to armor units, from special operations units to personnel and administration units, from artillery to signal units and from ordnance to transportation units. This manual looks at the role of quartermasters and QM units as they function on the battlefield. It will guide the development of quartermaster doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures related to: supply and storage, Army field feeding, general supply, water supply, mortuary affairs, petroleum supply and airdrop support operations. It also will serve as a guide for future development of training, leader development, organizations, materiel, and soldier support. This manual sets guidelines for unit commanders and their staffs operating within the Army's support structure. Further it: realigns supply and field service functions within the Quartermaster Corps (QMC) and explains how they relate to classes of supply and field services; explains to combat arms, combat support and combat service support commanders and their staff how and where they will receive QM proponent supply and field services support; introduces QM unit missions and explains unit operations; outlines relationships between the various levels of supply and field services support.

This book is a guide for Logistician's (military or civilian) in the execution of Movement Control and Distribution Management. - Provides examples of procedures and guidance utilized by our armed forces operating in Iraq to date, as well as being reviewed as emerging doctrine for the future. - Presents information for staff management that incorporates manual and automated procedures to monitor and track movement and commodities on today's modern battlefields. - Provides a process to utilize data from different automation systems, which do not talk to one another, as well as incorporates manual procedures to develop a system to monitor and track movement and commodities on today's modern battlefields. By doing this, we have provided the commander with a focused staff battle rhythm that works. Due to the Army Transformation and Spiral Development, there is a lack of documentation on just how to interpret and implement the new concepts and automation applications, and synchronize their usage and development. Many of the ideas and process in this book have not advanced beyond the conjectural level. The work covered is an initial effort to make operational these new ideas and procedures and provide them as training in a classroom and wartime environment. The uniqueness of the logistical mission and the technology of these services, this book may be guided towards a rather select audience. But due to the tactics and methods being used by our enemies in the field, it is important to understand that at all levels, the ability to have visibility and command and control of movement within our battle space is essential.

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This book is designed to provide the reader with a back to the basics look at tactical logistics, focusing on a more formal and detailed understanding of proper field and staff procedures, processes, relationships, and development that encompass the before, during, and after combat operations. So sit back and enjoy for Ive done all the long and exhausting research for you and placed all the pertinent information in one book rather than multiple documents. The book is written with a series of lessons formatted in a fashion that offers the reader a doctrinal concept in developing a tactical standing operating procedure (TACSOP) and its components, but with a logistical flavor providing detailed instructions to standardize a complicated routine and recurring field and staff procedures that can enhance the overall logistical functions and capability of every mission.

You already know that logistics is hard, it should not be, but it just is. The key components to supply and movement consist of receive, store, issue, and move. It should be that simple. Bottom line: it just is not that simple. There are too many moveable parts where the synergy of the operation could provide a scenario where the combined requirements needed to sustain a theater are greater than the sum of their individual effects or capabilities. . This book outlines some of these logistical components and their doctrinal relationship to the operation, as well as provides some new ideas. . The chapters are formatted in a fashion that offer the reader the doctrinal concept that the operation or function is based on, and then presents new theories on how to better execute the logistical function or capability as it relates to the operation. . The goal is to discuss those hard logistical topics and their conception to improve the general knowledge and understanding on "why it happens", and "how we can improve the outcome".